Irene Roda is Assistant Professor at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and she holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering. Her main research and teaching areas are related to industrial asset lifecycle management, operations management, and smart manufacturing. She is Director of the Observatory on Technologies and Services for Maintenance of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano. She is co-leader of the Special Interest Group on “Product and Asset Lifecycle Management” at the IFIP TC5 WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems. She is author of several scientific publications in national and international journals.