Adolfo Crespo

Adolfo Crespo Márquez is currently Full Professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Seville, and recently Head of the Department of Industrial Management. He holds a Ph.D. with Honors in Industrial Engineering from this same University. He is included in the Stanford University’s list of world top-scientists since 2022 and he received the Spanish Maintenance Award from the Spanish Maintenance Association (AEM) in 2020.

His research works have been published in journals such as Reliability Engineering and System Safety, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, European Journal of Operations Research, Omega, Decision Support Systems and Computers in Industry, among others.

Prof. Crespo is the author of 8 books and Editor of 5 books with Springer, Aenor, IGI Global and INGEMAN, about maintenance, warranty, supply chain and assets management. Professor Crespo is Fellow and Director of ISEAM (International Society of Engineering Assets Management), Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Book Series Engineering and Asset Management Review, and leads the Spanish Research Network on Assets Management and the Spanish Committee for Maintenance Standardization (1995-2003).

He also leads the SIM (Sistemas Inteligentes de Mantenimiento) research group related to maintenance and dependability management and has extensively participated in many engineering and consulting projects for different companies, for the Spanish Departments of Defense, Science and Education as well as for the European Commission (IPTS).

He is the President of INGEMAN (a National Association for the Development of Maintenance Engineering in Spain) since 2002.Concerning Asset Management projects, Prof. Crespo has been responsible for the implementation, together with Ingeman experts, of his model published in Springer Verlag (2007, book: “The Maintenance Management Framework”) in many Spanish, European and American utilities and industries at a corporate level (e.g. Iberdrola Generación, Heineken España, Autoridad del Canal de Panamá, Banco de México (fábrica de billetes), First Quantum Minerals, Enagas, CLH, Viesgo Distribucion, Adif, Patentes Talgo, Jefatura Superior Logística de la Armada, Abengoa Solar, etc.