manufacturing
Micro-factories: are they the future of manufacturing?
Developing economies have the prize consumers: new wealth and hunger to catch-up with developed world lifestyles. And even more significantly, at the bottom of the pyramid are estimated to be 4 billion people on low ...
Use versus ownership: sustainability and smart manufacturing
Predictions for the future of manufacturing tend to focus on fast, adaptable networked systems and customised delivery. But that’s still taking the availability of resources as a given. Ideally, and alongside the high-tech advances, we ...
From the group project to my thesis – the final few months of my Cranfield MSc…
It's hard to appreciate what makes Cranfield different before you come here but the combination of academia and industry, of postgraduate and PhD students, in a really multicultural environment does actually set it apart from ...
Manufacturing cybersecurity – assurance through research and education
I did my first degree in computer science before coming to the UK to study a Master’s course in computer security and digital forensics. I didn’t just want to learn how to secure systems, I ...
Tata Steel, State Aid and Brexit
Ruth was interviewed on Radio 5 Live Breakfast show on 31 March, discussing why the Government could not give State aid to save Tata Steel, and how this might be affected if the UK were to ...
Sustainable manufacturing and the factories of the future: small, smart and social?
The future of factories is small, smart and social. We’ve come to assume that efficiency in manufacturing is the result of economies of scale from large, centralised operations, speed and standardisation. But a combination of new ...