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Roda Irene

Associate Professor

Irene Roda is Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and she holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering.


She is Director of the Observatory on Technologies and Services for Maintenance of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano.


She is a member of the IFIP TC5 WG 5.7 Advances in Production Management Systems and co-leader of the Special Interest Group on “Product and Asset Lifecycle Management” at the IFIP TC5 WG 5.7.


She is a member of the AMEST WG IFAC TC5.1. Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Service and Technology.


She is Community Engagement Editor of the international journal Production Planning & Control: the management of operations, Taylor&Francis.

Career

PHD: Management Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Master of Science: Management Engineering, Politecnico di Milano.

Research

Irene Roda's research focuses on industrial asset management, maintenance engineering, operations management, digital transformation, and sustainability in both manufacturing and networked infrastructure sectors—particularly in the railway and energy distribution domains.


For over a decade, she has been developing methodological approaches and decision-support tools to manage the lifecycle of industrial assets. Her work stands out for its strong integration of academic rigor and practical relevance, with numerous collaborations with leading companies such as RFI, A2A, Ferrero, and MBDA.


Within this context, she has specifically explored the role of maintenance engineering and the analysis of the techno-economic performance of assets, with a focus on modeling and applying advanced indicators such as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).


She has also contributed to the development of decision-making frameworks and methodologies aimed at ensuring the strategic alignment of asset management processes, in accordance with the ISO 55001 standard.


More recently, her research has extended to supporting the evaluation of end-of-life strategies and life extension practices for industrial assets, with a view toward circular economy and sustainability.

Selected Publications

  1. Roda, Irene, Marco Macchi, and Saverio Albanese. "Building a Total Cost of Ownership model to support manufacturing asset lifecycle management." Production Planning & Control 31, no. 1 (2020): 19-37.
  2. Roda, Irene, and Marco Macchi. "A framework to embed Asset Management in production companies." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability 232, no. 4 (2018): 368-378.
  3. Roda, Irene, and Marco Macchi. "Maintenance concepts evolution: A comparative review towards advanced maintenance conceptualization." Computers in Industry 133 (2021): 103531.
  4. Tapia-Ubeda, Francisco J., Pablo A. Miranda, Irene Roda, Marco Macchi, and Orlando Durán. "Modelling and solving spare parts supply chain network design problems." International Journal of Production Research 58, no. 17 (2020): 5299-5319.
  5. Polenghi, Adalberto, Irene Roda, Marco Macchi, Alessandro Pozzetti, and Hervé Panetto. "Knowledge reuse for ontology modelling in Maintenance and Industrial Asset Management." Journal of Industrial Information Integration 27 (2022): 100298.

Grants, awards and Honours

2020

Best Paper Award | Category: Innovations in Asset Management, WCEAM 2022 – World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, Seville, Spain, October 2022, for the paper:

“A Methodology for Ensuring Strategic Alignment of Railway Infrastructure Asset Management Processes”

2019

John Burbidge Best Paper Award, IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) WG 5.7, for the paper:

Roda, I., S. Arena, M. Macchi, and P. F. Orrù. "Total Cost of Ownership Driven Methodology for Predictive Maintenance Implementation in Industrial Plants."

Presented at the IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, 2019, Austin, USA.

2015

Philip Morris Italia Campus: Empowering Research Award 2015

Award from Philip Morris International granted to Irene Roda for the project “P-Manu – Predictive Maintenance for High-Speed Automatic Machines”; 10-month project, funding: €15,000.

The project was proposed and led by Irene Roda.

Community service