BEER , Michael (Coordinador)

The maintenance management of large fleets of assets which include several technical solutions operating in different operational contexts has been a recurrent research topic in the literature. Current approaches to establishing fleet maintenance plans are primarily criticality-based, considering failures consequences and assets reliability;...

The present article explores the importance of developing a new methodology for the optimal sizing of a power generation system. To this aim, the proposed methodology is based on the analysis of the life cycle cost, which is composed by a set of differentiating costs. These differentiating costs will depend mainly on the variables of the...

The revolution towards the Industry 4.0, requires as a fundamental challenge the advanced treatment of risk in physical assets according to this new context. This revolution also includes the transition towards a new concept of assets and production systems giving rise to those known as cyber-physical systems (CPS) where the available...