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Dr. Alberto Martinetti

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Design, Production and Management Department, University of Twente, 7522 Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: occupational safety and health; risk analysis; hazard identification techniques; maintenance engineering and management; system reliability and human factors; antifragility engineering; application and utilization of emergent technologies to maintenance and safety topics
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Prof. Dr. John Ahmet Erkoyuncu

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Centre for Digital Engineering and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Milton Keynes, UK
Interests: augmented reality applications in manufacturing and maintenance; modelling maintenance requirements; digital twin; digitalisation of manufacturing processes
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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thiede

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Chair of Manufacturing Systems, Faculty of Engineering Technology, Department of Design, Production & Management, University of Twente, 7522 LW Enschede, The Netherlands
Interests: sustainable manufacturing; cyber physical productions systems; planning and operation of manufacturing systems, life cycle costing (LCC); life cycle maintenance
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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:

Redding, & R. Roy (2015). Through-life Engineering Services: Motivation, Theory, and Practice. (Decision engineering). Springer. https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1007/978-3-319-12111-6

Dr. Alberto Martinetti
Prof. Dr. John Ahmet Erkoyuncu
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Thiede
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Keywords

sustainability
through-life engineering services (TES)
maintenance
manufacturing
digitalisation
servi-tisation
decommissioning
system integration
smart asset management
smart operation management
sustainable asset management
circularity

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Encouraging a Modal Shift to Passenger Railway Transportation: A Case Study in Adaptable Rolling Stock Interior Design

by Jan-jaap Moerman, Seppe van Heusden, Brigitte Matheussen and Alberto Martinetti

Sustainability 2022, 14(15), 9701; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14159701 - 06 Aug 2022

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Continued urbanization continues to pose one of the greatest challenges to the environmental, economic and social sustainability of society. The modal split between transport modes has remained relatively unchanged in recent decades. This suggests that the level of private car use will lead to even more congestion in urban areas. Therefore, a modal shift from private to public transport should be further encouraged. One of the decisive quality characteristics for preferring public transport over private car use, such as passenger railway transportation, is the level of comfort. However, one of the main challenges for railway operators is the change in demand for capacity during peak hours and the demand for comfort during off-peak hours. The purpose of this study is to investigate the applicability of adaptable design in rolling stock interior to facilitate adaptations using case study research. The proposed design concept was evaluated and compared with current coach interior configurations using grey relational analysis. The case results showed that the design concept was adaptive by providing more options to meet the different needs of comfort and capacity. In addition, three new guidelines were identified that can generally serve as functional guidelines in the development of more adaptable assets in use to further encourage a modal shift. Full article

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Co-Designing Sustainable Coordination to Support Inter-Organizational Decision Making

by Nina Jakubeit, Willem Haanstra, Jan Braaksma, Mohammad Rajabalinejad and Leo van Dongen

Sustainability 2022, 14(11), 6467; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su14116467 - 25 May 2022

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Processes in inter-organizational projects tend to be complex to coordinate. Within these projects, stakeholders have to make decisions together, despite a limited awareness of the other parties’ interests and views. Frequently, coordination in inter-organizational projects is ineffective and inadequately addressed, despite the investment of considerable effort, which often results in delays and/or unwanted project outcomes. The purpose of this study is to investigate how a shared problem understanding for inter-organizational decision making can be achieved by means of sustainable coordination. In this study, CIMO logic was used to explore the context of the organizational change, followed by the application of design science research in order to develop an intervision process. The findings of this study are twofold. To manage the complex problem context, additional efforts were needed in order to create awareness of the team’s coordination activities. The application of the concept of co-designing resulted in a higher degree of sustainable relational coordination. The resulting intervision process aided the team in gaining a shared problem understanding of the decision making process in the inter-organizational project. The use of the co-designed intervision process can potentially be employed for other complex systematic problems, such as those occurring in the construction industry. Full article

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