Dr Panagiotis Tsarouhas, Dipl. Eng., PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He spent approximately 10 years in the Technical Department at ‘Chipita International SA’, where he headed production and maintenance operations across their food industry plants in Greece. Additionally, he brings approximately 35 years of research/teaching experience and a publication record of more than 100 papers spanning international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has been involved in many research and practical projects in the field of reliability analysis and maintenance engineering. His areas of interest are reliability and maintenance engineering, quality engineering, Total Quality Management (TQM), Lean Six Sigma, Industry 4.0/5.0, AI, and supply chain management.