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The Future of Manufacturing Foresight Report
The Foresight Report on The Future of Manufacturing was launched in Parliament on 30 October 2013. Professor Steve Evans of Cambridge University has been part of the Lead Expert Group (LEG) guiding the evidence base. Read an interview with Steve Evans about Foresight >here. Dr Mike Tennant of Imperial College London has been a key part of the Foresight exercise in preparing a report on sustainability and its impact on manufacturing in the UK. Find out more about Mike's involvement >here.
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BIS breakfast launch of The Future of Manufacturing Report.
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Steve Evans and others on the LEG talk about the report and what it means for UK manufacturing.
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Industrial Sustainability Tools Day
On October 9th thirty people from across the four universities of the Centre gathered to share experiences and knowledge about tool development. The aim was to prepare the cohort to deliver quality tools as part of their PhD or Centre projects. There were presentations from tool developers who are part of the PrISMS programme as well as serial tool builders from the academic side of the Centre >more.
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Quick Guides
The first set of 8 Quick Guides are now available for download from the Centre Website. The intention behind the Quick Guides is to make the knowledge generated by the researchers in the Centre accessible for industry and businesses. You can download the Quick Guides > here.
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CSIS Day at Imperial College
The Configurations for Sustainable Industrial Systems research group gathered in Imperial College to share the latest progress in their research, plan for the following year and to test out new techniques for the first time. There was a lively industrial mapping session where the researchers were challenged to construct a map of the industrial system with careful guidance from session leader Dr Doroteya Vladirimova. The aim of the mapping exercise was to find ways to represent the industrial system which will help identify the key points in the system, where interventions can be most successful and where unusual partners may be found. The group also began planning research and project activities for the year ahead with projects ready to go and Quick Guides in the pipeline. If you'd like to know more about CSIS as a whole and how you can get involved please contact Dr Dai Morgan
(dcm32@cam.ac.uk) and if you'd like to know more about industrial system mapping please contact Dr Doroteya Vladirimova (dkv21@cam.ac.uk).
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NMR to lead Food and Beverage Sustainability Road-mapping
Next Manufacturing Revolution* (NMR) is leading a UK Food and Beverage Industry Sustainability Road-mapping Workshop on 23 January 2014 in London. The workshops will involve senior representatives from manufacturers, relevant government departments, leading NGOs and subject matter experts. A webinar led by 2degrees will precede the workshop on 14 January >more.
*NMR is a not-for-profit collaboration between Lavery Pennell, the University of Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing and 2degrees to accelerate the transition to a more resource efficient manufacturing sector, using the UK as a test case.. Read more and download the Next Manufacturing Revolution Report >here.
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Ian Bamford, Centre Commercial Director, visits China with the TSB
This September Ian Bamford, Commercial Director for the Centre for Industrial Sustainability, joined the 'Tomorrow's Manufacturing Mission' organised by the Technology Strategy Board, the EPSRC and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST). The Mission brought together fast-growth organisations from the UK's sustainable manufacturing sector, each seeking collaborative partnerships in China >more.
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Sustainable manufacturing – Starting the journey
The IET have just published their latest Insight “Sustainable manufacturing – Starting the journey” written by Dr Peter Ball. Their Insight series seek to provide a quick overview of an area in an accessible way and provide pointers to relevant issues. This publication on sustainable manufacturing is written for the IET membership and beyond to take stock and provoke thoughts on the future. This one has a mainly eco-efficiency view focus leaving the opportunity for future insights on the more dramatic changes needed. Thank you to those in the Centre for providing feedback on the drafts. In the small print at the back Peter has managed to insert reference to the Centre and a few of its members! Read the Insight
>here.
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2nd Annual Conference Presentations
In September the Centre held its 2nd Annual Conference, ‘Integrating Industrial Sustainability’, at Magdelene College, Cambridge. Over 120 delegates from around the world attended the conference representing industry and academia. The two day event included keynote talks from Dr John Ehrenfeld, author of ‘Sustainability by Design’ and ‘Flourishing’, and Peter Price Thomas, Senior Associate and former CEO of the Natural Step. Videos of the conference presentations can be viewed on the Publications and Media page of the EPSRC CIMIS website >here.
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Presentation by Mike Barry, M&S
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Presentation by Dr Richard Swanell, WRAP
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Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing 2013
Hot on the heels of our Centre conference was the 11th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing (GCSM 2103) in Berlin attended by Dr Peter Ball, Prof Steve Evans, Handson Pimenta and Dr Doroteya Vladimirova. Keynote presentations, research presentations and workshops provided a stimulating and informative three days attended by well over 100 academics worldwide. Chaired by Prof. Dr Günther Seliger of Technical University Berlin and hosted in an impressive research facility it was an excellent opportunity to disseminate the work of our Centre as well as learn from other global leaders. The proceedings from the conference is due to be published at http://www.gcsm.eu/index.html.
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2012-2013 Annual Review Released
The EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability Annual Review for 2012-2013 has recently been published. The report is available for download on our website >here.
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Introducing Dr Mélanie Despeisse
Congratulations to Dr Mélanie Despeisse upon completion of her PhD in Sustainable Manufacturing at Cranfield University. Mélanie’s PhD research was on identifying improvement opportunities in manufacturing operations using process flow modelling to increase resource efficiency. During her time at Cranfield, Mélanie also worked on the THERM project in partnership with Airbus, Toyota, De Montfort University and IES Ltd. Since June 2013, Mélanie has been a Lead Researcher with the Performance Variation Grand Challenge and has been based at Cambridge University. Her research interests focus on the relationship between industry and environmental sustainability at various scales. She is currently spending 6 months in Japan at Keio University (Yokohama, south-east of Tokyo) and will return to Cambridge in April.
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EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference
Centre researchers and staff participated in the 2nd Annual EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference, which was held on September 17th and 18th 2013 at Cranfield University. The conference featured exhibitions from each of the sixteen EPSRC Centres for Innovative Manufacturing. In addition to a stand featuring ‘The Big Picture’ an all-in-one representation of all of the Centre’s activities and people, the Centre for Industrial Sustainability also contributed to the conference agenda with a presentation by Centre Director Prof Steve Evans on ‘Foresight and the Future of Manufacturing in the UK: insights from international experts’, and a poster, ‘Co-creating manufacturing value at whole system level’ by Lloyd Fernando. The 3rd Annual EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Conference is due to be held at The University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on
September 23th and 24th 2014.
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Centre PhD wins photo prize
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CIS PhD researcher Ionnis Mastoris and Cambridge lecturer, Dr Ronan Daly, were joint winners of the second prize in the annual Zeiss Photographic Competition in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University with their electron microscopy image of the reflective coating and fibrous cloth of a man-made fabric (above). The photograph was taken as part of a research project focusing on the life cycle of these fabrics, from which the findings could be utilised to help decrease the environmental impact of the fibre-dyeing process. Read more about the competition >here.
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The Centre in the News
The Shape of Things to Come. The Centre for Industrial Sustainability was recently featured in an article in the October 2013 issue of Research Horizons including an interview with Prof Steve Evans. Read the article >here.
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Will Manufacturing Force Another Comeback? Prof Steve Evans discusses The Next Manufacturing Revolution in the October 2013 issue of E&T Magazine. Read the full article >here.
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Green Business in China and the importance of lunch. Ian Bamford outlines the huge opportunities in China for green businesses - and passes on some handy tips for doing business in the country. Read the article >here.
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New Government Funding to Promote Industrial Sustainability
Article about the Centre for Industrial Sustainability in The Technology Partnership Journal (TTP) >more.
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The Centre operates out of 4 Universities with a track record of success in the core elements needed in sustainable manufacturing.
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