M. Zied Ouertani

Mohamed Zied Ouertani is a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Engineering Department, Cambridge University. He is a member of the Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory (DIAL) within the Institute for Manufacturing. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2007 from Nancy University for a dissertation on product information management support to the engineering change process. His research interests include collaborative engineering, engineering asset management and product lifecycle management. During his doctoral studies, he was involved in several projects dealing with energy saving strategies with automotive industries as well as turbine wind energy provider. Zied is currently leading the research project “Strategies for Engineering Asset Management”, funded by the Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC). This project aims to examine and demonstrate the impact of key emerging technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) on the effectiveness with which complex assets are managed throughout their lifecycle - particularly during the usage, maintenance and retirement phases.