About us
The subject area of Operations and Maintenance Engineering is interdisciplinary, cross-cutting and depicts many fields of science and emerging technologies. The activities of the division are focused on finding synergies with other engineering disciplines and construction networks with many active research groups, locally and globally.
The Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering has successfully secured competitive research funding from the European Union as well as leading Swedish funding agencies, including VINNOVA and SSF.
The Division has established and runs the International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, published by Springer, strengthening its international academic profile. The creation of the SKF College Technical Center for Advanced Condition Monitoring has provided a strong industrial platform for the development of cutting-edge predictive technologies. In parallel, two e-maintenance laboratories are in operation at Luleå University of Technology and at LKAB in Kiruna, reinforcing the Division’s applied research capacity.
In addition, a permit monitoring laboratory has been established within the Division. The Division is both technically equipped and scientifically competent to conduct advanced research in emerging areas such as big data, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics.
With growing recognition across industry and academia that effective maintenance is critical to reliable, sustainable performance and value creation, the Division actively collaborates with industrial partners, academic institutions, and researchers to advance these objectives.
History of the subject
The research subject of Operation and Maintenance Engineering was formed as a new emerging academic research subject in 2001. Since then, the Division has been continuously working to establish itself as a pioneer and leading research group in the field of operations and maintenance engineering.
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