Maintenance is an essential function in any successful operations. Today, it is enhancing its contribution to companies' competitiveness and profitability thanks to relevant innovations achieved by advanced methodologies, services and technologies. A leading concept is becoming Maintenance Engineering, an increasingly important topic which covers wide range of related application areas. Maintenance Engineering aims at investigating how engineering theories and practices can improve maintenance plans in order to impact dependability and asset management performance, which in turn facilitate the adoption of innovative solutions enhancing profitability of industrial operations.

This Special Issue of JMTM on "Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technologies" demonstrates such innovative trend by blending diverse application areas of Maintenance Engineering, thanks to the relevant contributions emerged from the 2nd IFAC A-MEST Workshop on "Maintenance for Dependability, Asset Management and PHM (Prognostics and Health Management)" held in Seville in November 2012. Within this issue, a total of 8 papers are covering a wide range of topics that are distinguished by their sound theoretical foundation coupled with understanding of practical matters.