Engineering Asset Management

This text represents state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the First World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) held in Australia in July 2006.The First WCEAM brings together four major international conferences:The Asia Pacific Conference on Systems Integrity and Maintenance (ACSIM) hosted by CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM)The Condition Monitoring Conference hosted by the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing, (BINDT)The Intelligent Maintenance Systems Conference (IMS) hosted by the IMS Center in the USA, andThe International Conference of Maintenance Societies (ICOMS®2006) hosted by the Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia (MESA).The Proceedings of the First World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) 2006 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as:Strategic asset managementRisk management in asset managementAsset data warehousing, data mining and fusionAsset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenanceIntelligent sensors and devicesFault diagnosis and prognosticsDeterioration and preservation models for assetsHuman dimensions in integrated asset managementDesign and life-cycle integrity of physical assetsMaintenance strategies in asset managementAsset performance and level-of-service modelsInformation systems and knowledge managementOptimisation decisions in asset managementFinancial analysis methods for physical assetsEngineering standards in asset managementEducation and training in asset management