Sustainability in Through-Life Engineering Services (TES)

Dear Colleagues,

Through-life Engineering Services (TES) is a transformative approach that addresses the value of the product life cycle system, wherein data obtained through health monitoring, maintenance, repair, and overhaul service delivery systems is further used to impact design and manufacturing for improved performance, quality, reliability, and sustainability [1]. Sustainability represents an essential factor that needs to be considered as a design factor, design requirement, and design objective for the lifetime of a product, asset, or service.

With this Special Issue, we want to explore functionality, performance, reliability, and availability as well as cost-in-use for long-life engineering assets, such as planes, ships, land-based vehicles, power plants, heavy machinery, and buildings. The research streams cut across the entire life cycle, emphasising understanding the through-life implications at the intersection with sustainability.

It is paramount to have a strong and long-lasting relationship between academia and industry to stimulate new approaches and obtain new solutions for ensuring effective sustainability in industrial environments.

This Special Issue is expected to become a resourceful collection of valuable scientific works on the above topics, supporting the transition towards more sustainable service engineering cross-sectors. Therefore, manuscripts will undergo rigorous review; they should be well written, unpublished, and report significant advancements in the mentioned domains.

References:

1. Redding, & R. Roy (2015). Through-life Engineering Services: Motivation, Theory, and Practice. (Decision engineering). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12111-6

Dr. Alberto Martinetti
Prof. Dr. John Ahmet Erkoyuncu
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thiede
Guest Editors

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