This book comes from a rethinking of how to organize activities complementary to training courses on maintenance management and asset lifecycle management. Its novelty consists in locating all applications of the theory in three reference companies (two belonging to the category of process production industry and the other one to the discrete manufacturing one).
The book presents 11 tutorials, offering the opportunity for application of theory into the reality of the reference companies. From the perspective of learning, this gives the advantage to operate seamlessly within the same reality by simply considering different aspects, but always with a close relationship to the complexity of a real situation. For every tutorial, an Excel(c) file is provided as the guiding and solving tool for each individual application.

Marco Garetti is full professor of Industrial Technology at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering (DIG) of Politecnico di Milano, School of Engineering. He is author or co-author of several issues (books and journal papers) concerning: industrial plant engineering, maintenance management, product lifecycle management, industrial technology, automated production systems, operations management. He delivers training courses and performs consulting activity for private and public companies and institutions.

Emanuele Dovere got a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering (2009) at University of Bergamo and later a post-Graduate Master in Industrial Asset Management. Since 2009 he works at CELS - Research Group on Industrial Engineering, Logistics and Service Operations and he is responsible of Asset Management area. He has experience on maintenance engineering with specific focus on diagnostic and prognostic tools.

Irene Roda is PhD candidate at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. She completed her MSc degree in Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano (2012). Her research focuses on Asset Management, particularly on the evaluation of total cost of ownership of industrial assets.

Elisa Negri is PhD candidate at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research fields are ontology-based solutions supporting advanced manufacturing solutions, in particular open manufacturing, and industrial systems modeling.