Engineering Assets and Public Infrastructures in the Age of Digitalization, 1st ed. 2020 Proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering Series

This proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management covers a range of topics that are timely, relevant and practically important in the modern digital era towards safer, cost effective, efficient, and secure engineered assets such as production and manufacturing plants, process facilities, civil structures, equipment, machinery, and infrastructure. It has compiled some pioneering work by domain experts of the global Engineering Asset Management community representing both public and private sectors. The professional coverage of the book includes:

• Asset management in Industry 4.0;
• Standards and models;
• Sustainable assets and processes;
• Life cycle perspectives;
• Smart and safer assets;
• Applied data science;
• Workplace safety;
• Asset health;
• Advances in equipment condition monitoring;
• Critical asset processes; and
• Innovation strategy and entrepreneurship

Advances in modern Engineering assets and Infrastructure management.- Asset economics and costs.- Asset data management and Data science.- Asset decisions and Decision support.- Asset safety and Occupational health.

Professor Jayantha P. Liyanage specializes in Industrial assets, Systems, Processes, and Operations at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Norway. He has earned B.Sc. in Production engineering (First Class Honours, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), M.Sc. in Ergonomics / Human factors (Distinction, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden), and PhD in Offshore technology (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway). Professor Liyanage is the Program Director of the 2-year master program on Industrial asset management, and the Experience-based executive Master program on Technology and Operations management at UiS. He had been the Chair of the University-Industry cooperative Cluster for Industrial Asset Management (CIAM) for almost 15 years (2004-2018). He had also been a Guest Professor of Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia, and University of Cincinnati, USA. He served in the Board of Directors of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Stavanger section with specific role as a Scholarships chair (2007-2015) and also was elected to the Board of Directors of the Norwegian Ergonomics and Human factors Society (NEHF). In addition, he has been a member of the Standardization committee SN/K 536 on Asset management, and SN/K 569 Revision of Management systems with Standard Norway. Dr. Liyanage was the Co-Chair of the European Network for Strategic Engineering Asset Management (EURENSEAM) involving approx. 15 European countries. He has been in the Working Group (WG) on Advanced maintenance engineering, Services, and Technology of IFAC (International Federation for Automatic Control), and honorary member of IFRIM (International Foundation for Research in Maintenance). He is a Founding Fellow of the ISEAM (International Society of Engineering Asset Management). He has actively involved in a number of R&D and joint industry projects for decades both in advisory and managerial capacities. He has considerable experience in Advisory capacity of Masters a