Meet the editors

Fausto Pedro García Márquez (https://blog.uclm.es/faustopedrogarcia/) works at UCLM as a full professor (accredited as full professor from 2013), Spain, an honorary senior research fellow at Birmingham University, UK, and a lecturer at the Postgraduate European Institute; he has also been a senior manager at Accenture (2013–2014). He obtained his European PhD with a maximum distinction. He has been distinguished with the following prizes:

Advancement Prize for Management, Science and Engineering Management Nominated Prize (2018), First International Business Ideas Competition 2017 Award (2017); Runner-up (2015), Advancement (2013), and Silver (2012) from the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM); and Best Paper Award in the *International Journal of Renewable Energy* (impact factor 3.5) (2015). He has published more than 150 papers (65% ISI, 30% JCR, and 92% international), with some recognized as: "Renewable Energy" (Best Paper 2014); "ISMSEM" (excellent), "Int. J. of Automation and Computing" and "IMechE Part F: J. of Rail and Rapid Transit" (most downloaded), etc. He is author and editor of 25 books (Elsevier, Springer, Pearson, Mc-GrawHill, IntechOpen, IGI, Marcombo, AlfaOmega, etc.), and five patents. He is editor of five International journals and committee member of more than 40 international conferences. He has been principal investigator in four European projects, five national projects, and more than 150 projects for universities, companies, etc. His main interests are maintenance management, renewable energy, transport, advanced analytics, and data science. He is a director of the Ingenium Research Group (www.ingeniumgroup.eu).

Dr. Mayorkinos Papaelias (PhD in Metallurgy, chartered engineer, Greece) is a senior lecturer in non-destructive testing (NDT) and condition monitoring at the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham. Dr. Papaelias is an expert in NDT and condition monitoring technology. He has been involved as a technical coordinator or scientific consultant in several FP6 and FP7 collaborative research projects. He is the author or coauthor

of more than 70 journal and conference papers in NDT and condition monitoring. He is also a member of the International Society for Condition Monitoring. Dr. Papaelias regularly authors articles for industrial magazines.

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5** Remote Computing Cluster for the Optimization of Preventive Maintenance

**Chapter 3 23**

**Chapter 4 37**

**Chapter 5 61**

**Chapter 6 79**

**Chapter 7 95**

*by Riaz Khan, Ammeran B. Mad, Khairil Osman and Mohd Asyraf Abd Aziz*

Impact of Improving Machines' Availability Using Stochastic Petri Nets on

ANFIS to Quantify Maintenance Cost of IT Services in Telecommunication

Introductory Chapter: An Overview to Maintenance Management

*by Aleksandr Kirillov, Sergey Kirillov, Vitaliy Iakimkin and Michael Pecht*

Decision Maintenance Management Problems in Agriculture Engineering

Maintenance Management with Application of Computational Intelligence Generating a Decision Support System for the Load Dispatch in Power Plants *by Milton Fonseca Junior, Antônio Estanislau Sanches, Jandecy Cabral Leite,* 

*Jorge de Almeida Brito Júnior, Manoel Henrique Reis Nascimento, Carlos Alberto Oliveira de Freitas, Tirso Lorenzo Reyes Carvajal, David Barbosa de Alencar, Jorge Laureano Moya Rodriguez, Ubiratan Holanda Berzerra and Nadime Mustafa Moraes*

Maintenance Management of Aging Oil and Gas Facilities

*by Aman Zineb, Latifa Ezzine and Haj El Moussami*

the Overall Equipment Effectiveness

*by Leila Moradi and Reza Ehteshamrasi*

*by Fausto Pedro García Márquez and Mayorkinos Papaelias*

Strategies: Models and Algorithms

*by Tojiddin Juraev*

Company

by Constructive Geometric Modeling Methods
