IfM schools outreachIfM’s programme of outreach activities for teachers, pupils and parents continues to grow. During this academic year, IfM staff and students gave talks on engineering and manufacturing for: • Babraham Primary School

• Fulbrook Middle School

• Histon and Impington Infants School

• Littleport Community Primary School

• Perse Prep School

• Perse School Sixth Form

• Chelmer Valley High School

• Orchard Park Community Primary School

• Home Educating Community

As in previous years, staff and students also contributed to the ever-popular Manufacturing Zone at the Cambridge Science Festival. In addition, two MET students undertook their Long Projects on ways to improve awareness of engineering and manufacturing within primary schools, working with the Royal Academy of Engineering

and a range of local state and independent schools.

For the coming year, we are planning to provide more resources on the IfM website to support teachers, pupils and parents in accessing information on the wide range of local and national programmes available to raise awareness of engineering and manufacturing. We also hope to be able to be able continue and grow our programme of in-school activities. If you are interested in helping with any of these activities in any way, please register your interest by contacting Tim Minshall tim.minshall@eng.cam.ac.uk

IfM News July 2015No 211

IfM’s work with Linde Gases results in prestigious ‘Red Dot’ award

In 2014 IfM helped Linde Gases develop its technologically advanced gas cylinder valve, EVOS™ Ci. On 29 June Linde received the 2015 ‘Red Dot’ award for Product Design, seeing off competition from nearly 5,000 other entries.

James Moultrie (DMG) said: “I

am delighted that our approaches were able to guide Linde and its design partners in the creation of a truly innovative product which is safer, more efficient and easier to use than any of its predecessors. This is a fantastic example of design which carefully and thoughtfully integrates excellence in functionality, engineering performance, usability and beautiful aesthetics and is a deserved winner of a Red Dot award.”

For more information, contact Colin Haden who has just joined ECS from Linde cdh35@cam.ac.uk

International manufacturing - revisitedCIM have recently confirmed the full line-up of speakers for the industry

day at their annual symposium, including:

Mike Lydon, VP Worldwide SC Management, Cisco; Steve Adams, Director SC Operations, Coca-Cola Enterprises; Dr Ralf Speth, Chief Executive, Jaguar Land Rover; Paul Mayhew, Global SC Director, ECT Division, Johnson Matthey; Vincent Megglé, Senior VP, Global SC Transformation, Schneider; Richard Vallihu, Chief Executive, Transnet Engineering; Mark Lincoln, Global SC Director, Cambridge University Press

For more information, please visit here: www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/cimsymposium15/

What is an Engineer? A few drawings from Tim Minshall's visit to Littleport Community School.

MET cycle challenge

Chris Goodfellow (MET) and three other Cantabs are currently half way through a charity cycle adventure from Nordkapp, Norway, to Punta de Tarifa, Spain, in an attempt to travel from the northernmost to the southernmost points in mainland Europe.

The team will be cycling approximately 3,500miles (5600km) between them.

They are completing the challenge to raise money for Help for Heroes and Cambridge’s own Jimmies Night Shelter.

All of the information about the trip can be found in the links below including their Virgin Money Giving web page.

www.velotab2015.co.uk

www.facebook.com/velotab2015

They’ll be posting daily updates of our progress across Europe.

1 million frames per secondThe Inkjet Research Centre (IRC)was recently successful with a bid to house a 1 million frames per second Shimadzu HPV-1 camera and light source on permanent loan from the EPSRC EIP (Engineering Instrument Pool). The competition for such equipment was high, and in the first instance the EIP equipment will be

utilised by several groups working within the IRC labs during the rest of the year. Our UROP students Will Price and Claudio Ravasio will also have the opportunity to utilise the Shimadzu during their project work, assisted by Ching Chen. Will Price is working on drop volume imaging and analysis, supervised by Graham Martin. Claudio Ravasio, sponsored by Xaar and supervised by Steve Hoath, is studying aspects of inkjet print head refill behaviour after jetting.

For more information, please contact Steve Hoath sdh34@cam.ac.uk

Katya water scarcityKatya Yatskovskaya, from CIM has secured a £5k research grant to support her doctoral research on the implications of water scarcity on the design of international food supply chains. The award resulted from an open call sponsored by the University’s strategic initiative on Global Food Security, and involves a collaboration between CIM-IfM and CISL Natural Capital teams.

Towards lean and resilient productionAlena Puchkova (DIAL) presented a paper titled ‘Towards Lean and Resilient Production’ at the Symposium on Information Control in Manufacturing (INCOM 2015) in Ottawa, Canada, May 11-13.

The paper presents issues and trade-offs in attempting to achieve lean production by increasing productivity and reducing costs and waste while at the same time operating with resilience in the face of disruptions. A simple mathematical model of the operation of a production system is proposed, which incorporates two types of disruptive events: resource breakdowns and quality loss.

The model is used to evaluate different inventory and inspection options for managing disruptions. It

is expected that the outputs from this work will lead to industrial guidelines for planning a production system configuration, such as number and location of inspection stations, and size and location of buffers.

The co-authors of the paper are Rengarajan Srinivasan, Duncan McFarlane and Alan Thorne. The work is based on the research carried out during the DisTAL (Disruption Tolerant Automated Lean Factories) project funded by the Boeing company.

Self-Healing and Smart Coatings: The Future of Materials

Watch Ronan Daly (FIAM) on YouTube as he describes new research into sensors and smart surfaces can be designed and deployed to extend the operating life of machinery and manufactured products. Watch here: https://youtu.be/mQFecIfP62E

Working with the Big Data SRIECS are currently working with the University on the Big Data Strategic Research Initiative (SRI).

The Initiative would like to have a clear and up-to-date understanding of the data science ecosystem in the Cambridge area and the requirements of companies in interacting with the SRI’s data science research and commercial services - ECS is leading on the market research for the initiative.

We are half way through the project and expect to complete the work in October 2015.

Pitch your idea!

The Open Innovation Forum members (run by ECS) are seeking new solutions to their business challenges. Up to 15 researchers, innovators and technology developers are invited to pitch their ideas to a panel of key decision-makers and ‘innovation scouts’ from important food and FMCG firms.

Members of the forum include: Mars, Heineken, Unilever, Tesco, United Biscuits and Cargill.

The event will be held on 17 November at Food Matters Live, ExCel, London.

For more information, please visit here: www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/oipitching15/

Former MET filmed at the IfM

Keno Mario-Ghai, who graduated MET last year, was filmed at the IfM for a television programme to go out on the Discovery Channel next year.

Provisionally entitled ‘Meet the Superbrains’, the programme is following a group of people working in new areas of science and technology, including the University of Cambridge team competing in this year’s Bridgestone World Solar Challenge – a biennial solar car race across nearly 2,000 miles of Australian Outback.

Keno led the 60-strong Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) team that designed and built Resolution, the only British car to qualify for the competition in 2013. As team manager, he had to take a painful, eleventh-hour decision not to race as there were concerns over the safety of the vehicle. Keno has since remained close to the project, both as an advisor to this year’s Cambridge team and as an official Ambassador for the Challenge.

Keno is currently working for Imagination Technologies.

Manufacturing the Future conference: key speakers confirmed

The IfM will host the upcoming fourth EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference on 17 and 18 September 2015. Speakers at the event will include:

• Amanda Brooks, Head of Innovation at BIS

• Professor Philip Nelson, Chief Executive, EPSRC

• Mike Gregory, IfM

• Simon Locke, Head of Manufacturing Engineering, Dyson

• Steve Hope, General Manager, Toyota Europe

• Andy Harrison, Chief Life Cycle Engineer, Rolls-Royce

• Peter Domeney, Director, Powertrain Engineering, JLR

• As well as speakers from AstraZeneca, Laing O’Rourke, Siemens and Unilever.

For more information, please visit here:

http://ukmanufacturing2015.eng.cam.ac.uk/

4th Sustainability conference for CISCIS held its Fourth Annual Conference on 6-7 July at Fitzwilliam College. The two-day conference, attended by 165 people, included a mix of presentations from industry and academia as well as an exhibition of tools developed for industry by Centre researchers and partners.

Keynotes were delivered by Ramon Arratia, Sustainability Director at Interface, Sanjeev Bahl, President at Saitex, Professor Gunther Seliger, Chairman at Technischen Universität (TU) Berlin, and CIS Director, Professor Steve Evans.

For more information, please visit here: www.industrialsustainability.org/

Jonathan Waite wins Leete Premium award

PhD student Jonny Waite (IRC)attended the awards dinner of the Worshipful Company of Engineers. The dinner was held in the fabulous Drapers’ Hall, London and many awards were presented to engineering researchers and engineers in the Armed Forces. Jonny received the Leete Premium Award, which is for research in production engineering at the IfM and provides a substantial bursary over the three years of a PhD. The working title of his PhD is ‘Robocasting with Integrated Fusion’ and looks to combine laser melting with slurry extrusion to create a new method of 3D printing. If successful, this method could enable faster production of ceramic components and production of parts containing different materials, such as a ceramic and a metal, in one automated process.

Ironman Tim

To the surprise of many (including me) I did manage to complete the Grafman ‘Ironman 70.3’ distance triathlon at the end of last month and, thanks to generous support from so many of you, raised just over £2000 (including GiftAid) for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and Cancer Research UK. Many thanks for all your contributions - the two charities are really grateful for your support.

For any of you who were waiting to see if I could actually complete the task before donating - quite understandable, as I had major doubts myself (but photo evidence above) - the donation website will remain open for a little longer - https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/tim-minshall - Tim Minshall

Feasibility study grantTwo CSA researchers, Mohamed Zaki and Andy Neely, are awarded a grant for running feasibility study as part of a new EPSRC-funded Redistributed Manufacturing Network ‘Consumer Goods, Big Data, and Redistributed Manufacturing’ (RECODE). The 9-month feasibility study aims to identify the challenges and opportunities to effectively leverage big data in consumer goods and provide a better understanding

of the drivers and the value that redistributed manufacturing can deliver for a manufacturer as well as for a customer.

CSIC wins prize at the Institute of Asset Management Conference

CSIC’s Asset Management team has won a prize for the Best Poster and Presentation at the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) Annual Conference 2015.

The winning CSIC Asset Management poster, designed by Tariq Masood, Duncan McFarlane, Ajith Parlikad and Helen Needham, presents CSIC’s new futureproofing assessment method designed to help organisations understand gaps in futureproofing considerations across key infrastructure assets.

Two awards for Mohamed Zaki’s JSR paper

Congratulations to Mohamed Zaki who recently received two awards for his paper ‘Analyzing Customer Experience Feedback Using Text Mining: A Linguistics-Based Approach’.

The first award for this paper was as a Runner-up for the SERVSIG AMA Highly Commended Article Award in 2014.

The paper was also one of the four finalists for the Journal of Service

Research Best Article Award for 2014. The award is presented annually to the best article in the previous volume of JSR, as selected by the JSR Editorial Review Board. The award is sponsored by IBM-ISSIP and was announced and presented at the Frontiers in Service Conference in San Jose, CA, July 9-12, 2015.

Chair Lady Nancy

In July 2015, Nancy Bocken (CIS) chaired a session on ‘sustainable business models and value networks’ at the International Society for Industrial Ecology Conference in Surrey, UK 2015 (ISIE 2015 - http://www.is4ie.org/isie2015). It was the first time this session ran at the conference. She also presented a paper at the same conference (with Maria Holgado and Steve Evans) on “Challenges and opportunities in circular business model innovation for clothing from a retailer perspective”.

Happy ruby

Congratulations to Derek and Claire Ford who have celebrated their Ruby (40th) wedding anniversary. Picture of them overlooking Arles, France!”

Global Food SecurityIn early July, Mukesh Kumar (CIM) gave a talk ‘UK-India food supply chains: sustainability and food security’ at The Sainsbury Laboratory for the Global Food Security Cambridge Symposium.

Katya Yatskovskaya (CIM) was also speaker at the conference, the title of her talk was ‘The Impact of Water availability on Food Security’.

To see slides and podcasts from the event, please visit here: globalfood.cam.ac.uk/2015-symposium

New peopleBernhard Hilgert is a graduate student from Technical University Munich majoring in Technology Management. He is supporting Frank Tietze by conducting research on how patent information supports strategic decision-making in innovation processes.

Dr Nicoló Chiodarelli has recently obtained a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship to join the NanoManufacturing group led by Dr Michael De Volder. Nicoló is specialized in the electronic applications of carbon nanotube (CNT). During his PhD at the University of Leuven (Belgium) he defined the first European industrial technology (i.e. at wafer-scale) for making vertical interconnects in microchips using CNT in place of copper. In 2011 he joined the CEA of Grenoble, then worked for 2-years at Alstom-Transport.

His project at IfM aims at implementing a novel manufacturing technology for organizing nanomaterials in thin sheets with improved electrical properties.

Internal newsletters

If you have any news for future internal newsletters, please email Nick Mann nm402@cam.ac.uk

Colin Haden has joined ECS from the Linde Group, having held management and functional roles in technical, marketing and business development within global functions and operating businesses. He was Head of the CoE for Gases Packaging team which won two Red Dot Awards for product design.After studying Mechanical and Production Engineering, Colin later became a Chartered Marketer. He has 30+ years’ experience in industrial markets, based both in the UK and Canada, he has also worked in Asia, China, EMEA and North America.

Peter Thornton has joined the Executive and Professional Development team in ECS as a Senior Industrial Fellow. He is an engineering and MBA graduate with many years of experience in executive education through working in his own business and with Cranfield School of Management. He lives in Leicester and supports the local football team for his sins.

PublicationsRama Murthy, S., Morgan, D., Evans, S., 2015. Industrial Ecology Principles and Industrial Practice – Exploring the Linkage. ISIE 2015 (Biennial Conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology) held at the University of Surrey (7-10 Jul). Guildford, UK.

Bocken, N. 2015. Sustainable venture capital - catalyst for sustainable start-up success? Journal of Cleaner Production (in press). www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652615006460

Jérôme Charmet, Ronan Daly, Pradyumna Thiruvenkatanathan and Ashwin A. Seshia, The effect of mass loading on spurious modes in micro-resonators. Applied Physics Letters 2015, 107, 043502

Oxana Kotova, Ronan Daly, Cidália M. G. dos Santos, Paul E. Kruger, John J. Boland, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Cross-Linking the Fibers of Supramolecular Gels Formed from a Tripodal Terpyridine Derived Ligand with d-Block Metal Ions, Inorganic Chemistry, 2015, (In Press).

Liu, Y., Srai, J.S., Evans, S., “Environmental management: the role of supply chain capabilities in the auto sector” in Supply Chain Management: an International Journal

Srai, J.S., Harrington, T.S., Alinaghian, L.S. and Phillips, M.A., “Evaluating the potential for the continuous processing of pharmaceutical products - a supply network perspective” in Chemical Engineering and Processing

Brennan, L., Ferdows, K., Godsell, J., Golini R., Keegan, R., Kinkel, S., Srai, J.S., Taylor M., 2015 ‘Manufacturing in the World: Insights for the Future’, International Journal of Operations Management, DOI 10.1108/IJOPM-03-2015-0135, IJOPM-03-2015-0135