Dr. Georges Abdul-Nour is an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Industrial engineering, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in IE from the Université de Moncton, N.B.’ Canada. He completed his PhD at Texas Tech University; Lubbock Texas, U.S.A. Dr. Abdul-Nour has authored and co-authored 25 books and books chapters and more than 450-refereed papers in international journals, conferences proceeding, and technical reports. His research interest is in fields such as intelligent asset management, complex system resilience, reliability and maintenance, intelligent manufacturing, I4.0, I5.0, and IX.0. Lean-Six Sigma, and JIT (TPS). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Production Research (IJPR) and Director on the Board of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM). He served as the Chair of the Engineering School and of Research Institute on Small and Medium Enterprises (SME), (INRPME) at UQTR. He is an Elected Member of the Academy of Industrial Engineering of Texas Tech. Dr. Abdul-Nour hold the HQ/HE/NSERG Research Chair in Asset-Management and he is a Fellow of ISEAM.