Digital Manufacturing projects at IfM
Digitally supported processes
Sensor (mass) Fabrication for IoT / Smart Cities
Augmented Reality in warehousing
Mass customization of manufacturing process
Proposal Digital Manufacturing / Digitalisation of Nanomaterial processing
Inventory counting policy using data writing on historical data
Quality analytics project with GKN
Providing data with “states” that can identify inaccuracies be used to avoid operational disruptions
Intelligent products enabling repair services of home appliances
Predictive analysis on lettuce growth yield and market demand
Energy harvester / storage for IoT
Digitally enhancing businesses
DLT in (re) distributed manufacturing
Bit-by-Bit: Impact of 3DP on business models
Update business strategy tool set for digital/4IR: How to consider new customer value propositions, new product/service model & new capabilities & competencies
Blockchain and digital manufacturing
Role of collaboration in business models for the commercialisation of AU/3DP technologies in the food industry
Digital supply chain consortium
How to generate, evaluate, prioritise and select potential ‘digital business’ projects
Productivity and digital manufacturing: impact on activity changes? Impact on business model changes? Measures of productivity?
New business models for the commercialization of 3DP/AM in food & bioprinting
How do firms de-risk/increase likelihood of successful implementation of digital
Business projects: technology, skills, capability building (strategy, resources, processes, co-ordination) & change management
Cognitive barriers to business models transformations for (D)AM
Explore technology management aspects of digital manufacturing
Automation assessment & strategy
Potential BM opportunities e.g. food, bioprinting, traditional manufacturing
Redistributed manufacturing, consumer goods & the role of big data
How do digital twins disrupt existing business models?
How manufacturing firms can formulate a process from digital transformation?
3D Printing and business model competition (3D systems & strategy)
Adapting sourcing decisions of food items predicting climate changes
Developing digital systems
Intelligent control for customized products using 3DP
Farmbots (collaborative learning urban farming bots)
Proposal AMSCI – Construction as manufacturing. Production layout/scheduling.
Predictive analytics of competent failure in gas turbines
Developing control & co-ordination mechanisms for distributed manufacturing organisation enabled by digital manufacturing
Developed an IT architecture for warehousing & logistics company
Switching operational modes using data analytics
Supply chain scenarios
Cloud-based Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Proposal BIM for Asset Management
Supply network link prediction with two MNCs
Exploring manufacturing applications for virtual reality technology
Working on recreating the IfM in virtual space to showcase research
Predictive maintenance of production systems
Proposal supply network disruption prediction with an MNC
Cognitive intelligence in FMCG production with an MNC
Next generation digital infrastructure (EPSRC Prosperity proposal)
Predictive analytics & maintenance of multi-modal transport networks
EU Proposal Predictive disruption analytics & robust scheduling with a MNC
Reconfigurable networks for digital twins
How can manufacturing firms classify rare-events classification: an approach based on genetic algorithms
Capturing and analysing customer experience data in real-time using machine learning technique
A new approach to manage data in manufacture
Investigation of how operational data can be repurposed to analytics
Managing customisation in digital manufacturing
Smart digital tracking solutions for manufacturing with an MNC
Warranty analytics using deep learning
Physical Internet. [Horizon 2020]
Digitally-linked activities in ecosystems, sectors, countries
Developing a public technology strategy for AM/3DP
Models/ Roles/ Functions of R&D centres/institutes
Potential for digital manufacturing case study
BSI digital standards
Digital built Britain
Innovate UK digital platforms
Developing skills and capabilities for 14.0
Emergence of digital infrastructure v(fab-spaces) to support entrepreneurship
Role of standards/IP in strategies for innovation of smart systems
Potential for digital manufacturing case study
Understanding impact of 3DP on redistribution of manufacturing
Impacts of (D)AM on sustainability
Inter-agency coordination for funding ‘Grand Challenge R&D’
Multi-layer supply network formation & emergence [with Bristol Uni]
BM Configurations for DM – comparing their potential on several dimensions
Reconceptualising industrial sectors – SCAMPS (Supply Chains & Advanced Manufacturing Producer Services)
Understanding the role of digital engineer services embedded software firms in (extended) definitions of sectors used by policy makers
Comparison of national multi-partner alliances for additive manufacturing strategy
Role of 3DP & DM in engineering education.
For further information please contact:
Professor Duncan McFarlane/Dr Alexandra Brintrup
T: +44 (1223) 766141
