Maintenance Engineering & Management is an important discipline for smart social situations. For example, energy, traffic, correspondence, and so forth are kept through the maintenance activities.
Smart maintenance activities for the social assets are needed, and the developments of the management methodologies are necessary to achieve smart society.
However, we have to consider the meaning of smarts and effects for our lives. The fundamental definitions play key roles for advanced management methods.
貝瀬 徹 （兵庫県立大学） @tetsu81