Cases on Optimizing the Asset Management Process

Vicente González-Prida received a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Seville, and an Executive MBA from the Chamber of Commerce. He currently works as Program Manager in the company General Dynamics – European Land Systems. He shares his professional performance with the development of research projects in the Department of Industrial Organization and Management at the University of Seville. He has written a multitude of articles for conferences and publications. His main interest is related to industrial asset management, specifically the reliability (design specification, data analysis), maintenance (outsourcing, e-maintenance), and sales management (cost analysis, logistics, organization). Recently, he has published the book After-Sales Service of Engineering Industrial Assets from Springer-Verlag. Adolfo Crespo-Márquez (PhD FISEAM) is currently Full Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Seville. He recently received the Spanish Maintenance Award 2020 from the Spanish Maintenance Association (AEM). Prof. Crespo is the author of ten books and many research publications in journals conference proceedings. He leads the Spanish Research Network on Asset management, the SIM (Sistemas Inteligentes de Mantenimiento) research group and has extensively participated in many engineering and consulting projects for different companies, for the Spanish Departments of Defense, Science and Education as well as for the European Commission (IPTS). He is the President of INGEMAN (a National Association for the Development of Maintenance Engineering in Spain) since 2002.