The paper describes the immediate need for Construction Process Re-engineering related to asset management. The paper uses the Building Envelope Life Cycle Asset Management (BELCAM) project to describe potential opportunities to improve the efficiency of maintaining constructed assets. BELCAM is a research project employing the following enabling technologies: maintenance management, life cycle...

This paper presents a number of techniques that have been developed as components of the software maintenance process as part of the ESPRIT REDO project. These techniques are all based on formal methods, and the work described has provided the mathematical underpinning to a large collaborative project that has been investigating various aspects of software maintenance. The focus of the project ...

Corresponding Author: Hassana Mahfoud Faculty of Sciences and Techniques, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, B.P. 2202-Route d’Imouzzer-Fes, Morocco Email: Hassana.mahfoud@usmba.ac.ma Abstract: Clinical engineering departments have to establish and continuously regulate a Medical Equipment Management Program (MEMP) to ensure a high reliability and safety o...

Experience-based continuous learning is essential for improving products, processes, and technologies in any emerging area of business and science. This can be facilitated by repository-based organizational learning through capturing relevant experience for reuse in an experience base. Since for obvious reasons such organizational learning from experience needs to be a permanent endeavor, an or...

Software engineering research has focused primarily on software construction, neglecting software maintenance and evolution. Observed is a shift in research from synthesis to analysis. The process of reverse engineering is introduced as an aid in program understanding. This process is concerned with the analysis of existing software systems to make them more understandable for maintenance, re-e...

An efficient and qualitative work using environments to software engineering management depend of structure, control and adequate use of the resources available to design and development. Between this resources is the versions manipulation of (sub)projects and component created in the engineering phases. Currently, the majority of the software engineering environments supports the versions mani...

For proper management of total product life cycle, it is fundamentally important to systematize design and engineering information about product systems. For example, maintenance operation could be more efficiently performed, if appropriate parts design information is available at the maintenance site. Such information shall be available as an information infrastructure for various kinds of eng...

Product software is a worldwide industry providing the software applications found in countless types of systems, such as telecommunications, military, industrial processes, and entertainment. This software must be developed just as any other industrial product, by applying engineering methods to ensure a quality final product. Software Engineering (SE), appears in this context, and has been de...

Maintenance is one of the most critical tasks during the operation of a system. The reason is profound as it has effect on the life extension of its components and provides also a better delivered quality of service. Thus a maintenance policy may increase the reliability, the availability and other performance indicators which are mainly used to measure maintenance efficiency, but it also incre...

Fluid–structure interactions (FSI) play a crucial role in the design, construction, service and maintenance of many engineering applications, e [...]