Aim:

Quantifying responsiveness to investigate how Additive Manufacturing (AM) influences production operation responsiveness?

Approach: Mixed Research Methodology

Quantitative: Devising an audit tool.

Qualitative: Obtaining data and validating on a real-life industry case.

Output:

An integrated software based audit tool to quantify and compare responsiveness of hypothetical configurations of AM enabled production.

Impact:

To catalyse (or “demobilise”) the industrial adoption of AM in a production environment

Sponsor:

EPSRC

Supervisor:

Prof Duncan McFarlane

Unit of Analysis: Production System