I am an R&D engineer and technical manager at the Centre for Research in Management and Production Engineering (CIGIP) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Valencia (Spain), and a PhD student in Industrial Engineering and Production. My research activity focuses on smart manufacturing (Industry 4.0) and improving process quality and performance through Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) strategies, digital assets, digital twins and advanced analytics/machine learning algorithms, with contributions to review papers and European collaborative projects. At the same time, I participate in European initiatives such as i4Q, DiMAT, AIDEAS and MaaSAI, focused respectively on AI solutions for industrial equipment and enabling ‘Manufacturing-as-a-Service’ models with autonomous agents.