Manufacturing Engineering
Based within the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, research covers a broad range of manufacturing disciplines including:
Manufacturing Organisation
This area involves research into all aspects of manufacturing organisation and management including the development and operational aspects of business. The unifying theme of its research is the impact of the organisation systems and people behaviour on the business performance. Click here to find out more.
Manufacturing Processes
Two key areas: Interconnection Research Group (ICG) -
addresses the mechanical and manufacturing issues associated with electronic products, drawing on the skills of electronics engineers, physicists, materials scientists and chemists. DTI Knowledge Transfer Network in Electronics-enabled Products -
Formerly known as The PRIME Faraday Partnership this takes our work at the electronics module level and integrates it with our colleagues at the University of Nottingham & Pera Group.
Manufacturing Systems Integration (MSI)
A major contributor to developments in Enterprise Modelling and Enterprise Integration, the group's systems modelling and integration concepts, methods and software tools have been applied with respect to many large-scale manufacturing, engineering, logistical and business systems. Click here to find out more.
Manufacturing Technology
We have wealth of experience across manufacturing and systems technologies for component manufacturing, from CAD/CAM, casting, machining, dimensional metrology, stress analysis to systems technologies of production planning & control and environmental and sustainable manufacture. The group has two centres:
- Advanced Manufacturing Systems & Technology Centre (AMSTC)
- Centre for Sustainable Manufacturing And Reuse/Recycling Technologies (SMART)
Mechatronics
Mechatronics is the synergistic integration of Mechanics, Electronics, Embedded Control and IT in the design and realisation of intelligent products, processes and systems. It has been described as Mechanical Engineering for the 21st Century. Click here to find out more.
Product Realisation Technologies
The Product Realisation Technologies Research Group has the objective of researching the next generation of manufacturing and computational technologies to improve the performance of innovative enterprises. Wide-ranging research activities encompass all aspects of the digital design and manufacture of products. Click here to find out more.
Additive Manufacturing
Research is based around a family of technologies collectively known as Additive Maufacturing. All Additive Manufacturing processes work by adding layers of material to build up three-dimensional objects. It is the belief of many people that this technology will eventually move into the heart of the manufacturing process and end use parts will be made by these additive techniques. Click here to visit website.
Main contact: Professor Richard Hague
Professors
Chris Backhouse
Neil Burns
Keith Case
Paul Conway
Phill Dickens
Richard Hague
Mike Jackson
Rob Parkin
Richard Weston
Senior Lecturers
John Edwards
Jenny Harding
Russell Harris
Rob Harrison
Neil Hopkinson
David Hutt
Changquing Liu
Shahin Rahimifard
Andy West
David Whalley
Bob Young
Lecturers
Samir Dani
Andy Taylor
Stephen Walsh
Bob Wood (email link)
Chris Tuck
Senior Research Fellow
Paul Palmer
Research Fellow
Patrick Webb