Current Research
Our current research activities can be broadly classified into the following two areas:
Low Cost Automation
Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH)
The UK national innovation agency (Innovate UK) is giving small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) from the manufacturing sector an opportunity to boost their “productivity and competitiveness” through the Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH) programme. Through this research and innovation project, the vision is that an increased adoption of new and existing digital technologies leads to business growth by harnessing the power of data.
You can read more about this project here.
Digital Hospitals
The Digital Hospitals project aims to exploit the potential of digital technologies to address the key challenges in the delivery of effective and efficient healthcare provision at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH). The project will also provide guidance towards the development of a long-term digital strategy to support its overall objectives of transforming into a world-class provider of healthcare services and maintaining its position as the leading exemplar within the NHS. The aim of this research programme is to enable a step-change to hospital management by devising, implementing, validating and exploiting Digital Hospitals as an integrated concept with the goal of improving hospital performance, combining patient records, processes, equipment monitoring, occupancy and use of the infrastructure. The pilot study is currently being developed with the Histopathology department of the Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
You can read more about this project here.
Shoestring Business Unit
You can read more about this project here.
Distributed Automation
Made Smarter Connected Factories Centre (MSCF)
The Made Smarter Connected Factories Centre is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, the University of Sheffield, and the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). The project aims to build new capabilities to create connected manufacturers that are highly responsive and able to adapt to current and future challenges.
You can read more about this project here.
Elastic Manufacturing Systems
Elastic Manufacturing explores how manufacturing companies can rapidly change their product volume and product mix. A key mechanism of interest is how manufacturing resources can be provisioned and deprovisioned to respond to variations in demand and supply.
You can read more about this project here.
