IfM News March 2015No 207

Focus on: IfM ReviewThe wonderful team of volunteers who made sure the 2015 Science Festival was a success. Thank you and well done to all!

The third issue of IfM Review is now out. The first two editions issued last year were viewed online by over 8000 people from 1 April 2014 to 1 March 2015.

Mike Gregory said: “The IfM Review is rapidly becoming one of the most important windows on the IfM, thanks to excellent work by the editorial team. They have brought together a publication which provides a blend of ‘news’ and more in depth features which we hope you will find engaging and informative.”

Pick up a copy of Issue 3 from reception, or if you or your contacts would like a digital copy, sign up to receive one here: eepurl.com/be30Hz

Main features:

From research to real productsRonan Daly (IRC, FAM) explains why taking a cross-disciplinary approach to advanced manufacturing research has the potential to deliver solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems.

Management tools and toolkits: the good, the bad and the uglyClive Kerr and Rob Phaal (CTM) are looking at better ways to design and use management tools and toolkits.

Is big data still big news?People are describing data as being ‘the new oil’ - but is it true? Mohamed Zaki (CSA) explains that, while many companies are already benefiting from big data, it also presents some tough challenges.

Getting creative in the kitchenAlumnus success story: former ACDMM student Richard Joseph recounts how he set up innovative kitchenware company Joseph Joseph with his twin brother Anthony.

Developing a UK Strategy for Additive ManufacturingMembers of the IfM ‘Bit by Bit’ project are part of a team helping to develop UK Strategy for Additive Manufacturing (AM). The first workshop run as part of the project was held on 10 March at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) in Coventry.

The workshop brought together representatives from a diverse range of organisations with an interest in AM, including leading manufacturing firms, AM/3DP service providers, sector networks, government agencies and universities. The workshop was an important step in a year-long process of working with the AM community to help coordinate the development, diffusion and adoption of AM technology to support the UK’s industrial competitiveness.

The two key aims of the first workshop were to share the plan for developing the strategy with the AM community to build awareness and encourage engagement, and to use the substantial and diverse experience of the attendees to help target specific areas where evidence gathering should be targeted. Ideas were captured from 100 attendees using a simple structured ‘landscaping’ exercise.

Although the workshop was heavily over-subscribed, it was felt that several key areas, such as the healthcare, IP, investment, maker and education communities were under-represented. To address this, a second event was run on 25 March at the University of Nottingham.

Nancy Bocken gives TEDx talk on sustainability impact

On 19 February, Nancy Bocken (CIS) gave a TEDx talk in London for the company Allianz. She discussed “Sustainable Business Models for Positive Impact”. Allianz organized a series of events and TEDx talks in 20 cities to celebrate its 125th anniversary and plan its future strategy with sustainability at its core.

Lampros Litos takes part in Rolls-Royce conferenceStudents from the Engineering Department including Lampros Litos (CIS) joined 150 Rolls-Royce staff at a TEDx conference organised at the Rolls Royce Learning and Development Centre in Derby. The conference included a workshop to explore how technology will have transformed products and services in 30 years’ time. Lampros’ team and three others were challenged with the air-delivery of products using flying drones and won the ‘air’ category with a ‘CIS - systems thinking’ approach

Karen Smith takes part in Expert WorkshopKaren Smith (ECS) was a panellist at the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) Expert Workshop on Advanced Manufacturing and SMEs. The event, titled “SMEs readiness for successfully adopting advanced and clean manufacturing products”, took

place on 10 February in Brussels, Belgium.

MET student is youngest speaker at Economy Summit in TurkeyMET2B student Joseph Mambwe was invited to speak at the Uludag Economy Summit in Turkey, attended by the country’s Deputy Prime

Minister, the former president of the European Central Bank, the Director of Google Ideas, the Finance Minister of Turkey and a whole host of CEOs, executives and leaders from all across the world. Joseph was the youngest person to ever speak at this event. He spoke about how Turkey can encourage their talented young people to dream bigger and build the next great companies of tomorrow. He also spoke about the Cambridge ecosystem with regards to the emergence of billion dollar companies.

Details about the event can be found here: en.uludagekonomizirvesi.org

IfM leads UK-US workshop on manufacturing and innovation policyMike Gregory, Eoin O’Sullivan and Carlos Lopez-Gomez (CSTI) held a workshop at the White House in Washington D.C. on 18 March where they compared approaches to the development of advanced manufacturing institutes with UK and US government agency representatives and academics. The event, titled ‘UK-US workshop on manufacturing and innovation policy: Practices and lessons from advanced manufacturing innovation institutes’ saw participants share expertise, experiences and best practices and learn from one another. The workshop was funded by the UK Science & Innovation Network, and a workshop report will be published shortly. Many thanks to Ella Whellams and Kate Willsher (ECS) who organised the international workshop and provided support throughout the event.

IfM facilitates collaboration project between Xaar and the Univeristy

Nicky Athanassopoulou (ECS) and Steve Hoath (IRC) set up a roadmapping workshop for Cambridge inkjet printing company Xaar, funded by the Knowledge Transfer Fellowships (KTF) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), held at the IfM on 23 March. It brought together Xaar’s R&D teams and University of Cambridge experts identifying with the potential for collaborative research, with the aim of establishing the next steps and likely timescales for new research projects. This activity is seen as a proactive stepping stone towards improved exploitation and extra support of University research resources.

CSA Webinar on Key Considerations in Asset Management DesignFlorian Urmetzer presented the latest in the CSA Webinar series. The March Webinar reported on the ‘Key Considerations in Asset Management Design’ Executive Briefing, which outlines different aspects to consider when rethinking your asset management system. The briefing reveals a number of important findings related to the design and implementation of the system and identifies several important elements that should be considered when designing and applying an effective asset management system in today’s context of a complex service ecosystem.

Link: youtu.be/bE_JnhOyZwM

CSA releases podcast interviews on Big DataAndy Neely and Mohamed Zaki (CSA) were interviewed for the latest CSA podcast theme: “If Big Data is the ‘New Oil’ for Business - How Should Firms Go About Using It?”

In the podcasts, they talk about the challenges of using Big Data and outline the six questions businesses need to ask themselves to set up a data-driven business model. This is based on the working paper: “Data and Analytics – Data-Driven Business Models: A Blueprint for Innovation and The Competitive Advantage of the New Big Data World” authored by Josh Brownlow, Mohamed Zaki, Andy Neely and Florian Urmetzer.

Listen to Mohamed’s podcast here bit.ly/1IyrEsO and Andy’s here bit.ly/1IyrAcG

Steve Hoath shares inkjet research at digital fabrication and printing conferenceSteve Hoath has submitted two abstracts to the NIP31/Digital Fabrication and Digital Printing Conference: one describing some of his recent findings about inkjet print head devices during his ongoing Knowledge Transfer Fellowships (KTF) work with Xaar and another abstract about work on new standards for inkjet droplet measurement methods by the International Electrotechnical Commission TC119: Printed Electronics Working Group 3 team.

During his early March visit to Munich for the IEC TC119 work, he took a train to Salzburg and met up with Kai Hsiao (ex IRC, hsiao@tugraz.at) for discussions about new and old times.

He sent best wishes to all at the IfM. Below is a picture taken on the climb up to the fortress above Salzburg’s Old City quarter.

Fourth event for the Research Capability Development Programme

The fourth 2014-2015 Research Capability Development Programme event was held on 6 March and consisted in a talk on publishing papers with punch.

Professor Jonathan Linton, the Editor-in-Chief of Technovation Journal and Professor of Management of Technological Enterprises at the Telfer Management School, University of Ottawa, addressed issues associated with publishing in the area of Technology Innovation

Management. In particular, the most common barriers to publishing high impact papers were discussed. The talk also offered some advice for researchers who would like to get published in Technovation Journal.

For further details and a copy of the presentation, please contact Leila Alinaghian lsa27@cam.ac.uk

CIS runs workshops at Resource 2015 conferenceCIS participated in the Resource 2015 conference at ExCel centre in London in early March. Resource is a three-day event where 11,000 professionals share learning and explore opportunities to be circular and resource-efficient.

As well as managing a busy stand, CIS also gave two workshops during the conference: ‘New Tools for Sustainable Businesses’ led by Doroteya Vladimirova, Maria

Holdago and Miying Yang; and ‘Circularity Thinking: Ways to Navigate the Circular Economy’ with PhD students Fenna Blomsma from Cranfield and Geraldine Brennan from Imperial College London, assisted by Dai Morgan.

First Year Research Student Conference 2015Save the date: this year’s First Year Research Student Conference will be held here at the IfM on 20 May from 9am-5pm, followed by a Poster Presentation session from 5.30-7pm.

IfM champions share their victoriesYinjie (Jessy) Zhou (CIM) competed in the annual Table Tennis Varsity match on 8 March, representing the University of Cambridge. As the No.1 Seed of the Light Blues, she led the women’s team to a resounding victory in the match: Cambridge beat Oxford 10-0!

Torben Jess (DIAL) had a very successful set of bumps races this year. Bumps is a set of races run in the Lent and Easter terms on the river Cam running over four days.

Boats from all colleges compete against each other. The boats are lined up behind each other based on results from previous years and start at the same time. The goal is to catch the crew ahead of you while avoiding being caught by the crew behind you.

Bumps is the main event for Cambridge College rowers every term. Torben and his crew from Robinson M1 bumped on all four days, which means they got ‘blades’ - a rare achievement which only one out of three Cambridge rowers obtain in their rowing career.

PhD student Dominik Deradjat (CTM) led the Cambridge Team to victory in the British Universities Chess Association Team Championship 2015 in the top two divisions. The championship was held in Birmingham on 21-22 February, qualifying Cambridge to represent Britain in the 2015 European Universities Championships in Yerevan, Armenia.

The win marked the University of Cambridge’s first victory in the British University Championship since 2001.

ideaSpace firm wins Business Weekly’s Startup Company of the Year award

ideaSpace company SimPrints was named Startup Company of the Year in the Business Weekly Awards. SimPrints is a non-profit tech company that has developed fingerprint scanners that connect wirelessly to mobile phones. Backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and ARM Holdings, its custom on-board template extraction algorithm makes data transfer fast and secure – ideal for safely storing medical and other records. www.simprints.com

Tim Minshall (CTM) was also at the event and gave the Engineering Excellence Award award to Hexcel Composites, which supplies advanced material solutions for the aerospace sector.

Phil’s photo of student at work wins a prize An image by Phil Catton (DIAL and CSIC) won second prize in the People category of a national science photography competition organised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the UK’s main agency for funding research in engineering and the physical sciences. Phil captured an image of a PhD candidate preparing some monitoring equipment before it is installed in the abandoned Post Office Tunnel.

For more details visit: www.flickr.com/photos/epsrc/15751167710

Executive education: a double dose of Atos!ECS is running two talent development programmes for Atos Experts in parallel this year. Each programme consists of three one-week modules, with the first and third held in Cambridge and the second in Paderborn, Germany. March was a particularly busy month with Intake Three having their Module 2 in Paderborn and Intake Four starting their programme in Cambridge.

Well done to all those involved in these programmes - they have been very well received by the delegates and both groups are looking to their return trips to Cambridge.

Judith Shawcross

PrISMS case study: Milbank Concrete ProductsECS has published its latest PrISMS case study and this time the spotlight is on Milbank Concrete Products. It manufactures high-quality precast concrete products, including floors, staircases and ground beams. It works with contractors in the civil engineering, rail, road and environmental sectors, offering services including design, manufacturing, installation and technical support.

ECS worked with the firm as part of the PrISMS programme to define the business growth strategy, implement an innovation process to support the growth strategy, increase revenues by 10% per annum and reduce electricity consumption and energy bills by 20%. It also helped optimise existing factory and yard layouts, increase manufacturing capacity by 10% and maintain existing jobs and increase staff levels by 5%.

Read the full case study here: bit.ly/1E62LTT

IfM Easter Treasure HuntA message from Prof Pierre Lapin:

It is with great pleasure that I have come back to Cambridge this year. I have prepared a grand Easter Treasure Hunt for you to enjoy with colleagues, friends and family. You are all invited to hunt for the choco eggs I’ve left around the city if you can follow the trails I’ve left for you.

Let me egg you on this quest: sweet adventures, riddles and puzzles await you. Maybe you should put all your choco eggs in one basket. If you solve all pieces of the

puzzle, there will be rewards for the winners: the surprise is magnificent and the apple of my eye. Don’t be scared, give it a try. You might even pull a rabbit out of the hat! Good luck and enjoy!

The first clue will be given to you on the day... Meet my partners Dr Simon Ford and Dr Mélanie Despeisse at Don Pasquale (12 Market Hill, CB2 3NJ) on Saturday 28 March 2015 at 14:30.

Send me an email prof.pierre.lapin@gmail.com with your phone number if you plan to play so that we can keep you informed of new sweet clues as we go along.

New peopleJordi Cools is a visiting PhD researcher from Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Belgium. He is visiting the NanoManufacturing group to work on 3D CNT microstructures that can be used as electrodes for high-quality electrogenic cell measurements. He obtained his degree in Biomedical Sciences and masters in Bioelectronics and Nanotechnology at Hasselt University. As a fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), he is working on the development of new-generation electrodes for electrophysiological measurements of electrogenic cells, with higher spatial resolution and greater sensitivity than current state-of-the-art microelectrodes. Julia Jonas is a research assistant and PhD student at the Department for Information Systems at University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. She is visiting CSA for four weeks.

Her research is in stakeholder integration in service innovation, looking at the modes, effects and

interdependencies of internal and external stakeholder integration in manufacturing and IT firms. Moreover, she is working on open customer integration in the project JOSEPHS - the service manufactory. This open innovation platform is a café and workshop in the centre of Nuremberg, enabling open exchange between innovators and the public.

Julia’s background is in Service Management and Open Innovation. After graduating with a Master in Business Administration with a focus on Service Management from Karlstad University in Sweden, she worked as a consultant for Open Innovation in Munich.

Thibaut Betton has joined DIAL to work on the Distal project. He is a third year Mechanical Engineering Master’s student at the French Institute for Advanced Mechanics

(IFMA) and a member of the Mines-Telecom consortium of schools (IMT).

He specializes in Industrial and Logistic Systems. In order to join IFMA, Thibaut prepared for the French national entrance exams

to top universities at the Avignon Science and Technology Campus where he studied physics and engineering science.

Vieri Maestrini is a visiting PhD at the CSA. He is a doctoral student and teaching assistant at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering of Politecnico di Milano and a consultant and lecturer for the MIP Business School (Milan).

Vieri’s research interests entail performance measurement and management, with a major focus on inter-organization relationships. His work at the CSA will primarily consist of investigating how companies could leverage on big data analytics to set proper supply chain performance measurement systems.

Vieri holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florence and a Master’s in Management from Politecnico di Milano. He has spent a six-months exchange period in Stockholm (Sweden) at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) during his Master’s program.

Holly Shaw has joined ECS as Events and Marketing Assistamt. She is a recent graduate in

Upcoming eventsWould an industrialist support your research?Monday 13 April,12:00 - 14:00 Engineering Department, Trumptington streetThe three Visiting Professors of Innovation will describe how they help researchers put together a more compelling bid for funding.

The Pathway to Manufacturing for your research Wednesday 15 April,12:00 - 16:30Institute for ManufacturingLed by Charles Featherston (CSTI) with panellists from EPSRC, Innovate UK, Nokia, and the University.

Roadmapping to build buy-in from industrial partners Thursday 30 April, 12:00 - 14:00Engineering Department, Trumptington streetNicky Athanassopoulou will describe how to engage with industry to build a collaboration.

For information and booking contact Jo Griffiths jg393@cam.ac.uk

Event and Festival Management BA (Hons) from Buckinghamshire New University, and has previously worked with FolkEast Festival as part of the marketing and press team.

Sandra Morioka joined CIS as a visiting PhD student. Her research deals with sustainable business models (SBM), with special focus on SBM assessment through processes and indicators aligned with corporate sustainability challenges.

She is a PhD student from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and licensed researcher in the Technological Research Institute of São Paulo State. Sandra’s Industrial Engineering diploma is part of a double degree program, a partnership between the University of São Paulo and the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany).

PublicationsRonan Daly, Tomás S. Harrington, Graham D. Martin, Ian M. Hutchings. Inkjet printing for pharmaceutics – A review of research and manufacturing, International Journal of Pharmaceutics (In Press)

Thiesse, F., M. Wirth, H.-G. Kemper, M. Moisa, D. Morar, H. Lasi, F. Piller, P. Buxmann, L. Mortara, S. Ford and T. Minshall (2015). Economic implications of additive manufacturing and the contribution of MIS. Business Information Systems Engineering link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12599-015-0374-4/ fulltext.html

IfM in the NewsCambridge Science Festival: Five hi-tech events that will wow festival-goers Information on the IfM’s activities during Science Festival Cambridge News

Innovate to sustainDavid Probert explains how companies can develop their capabilities across the strategy, system and the organisation’s cultureThe Manufacturer

Research data availabilityThe EPSRC requires that researchers include a statement about availability of their research data in any papers published after 1 May 2015. Further information about this requirement is available at www-lib.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/epsrc-funded-read-this/

If you have any questions about this requirement contact Niamh Tumelty cued-library@eng.cam.ac.uk

This year’s photography competition, open to allstaff and students in the Department, is sponsoredby ZEISS (Scanning electron microscopy division)who have kindly donated the following prizes:

1st prize ZEISS Conquest HD 8x32 Binoculars2nd prize ZEISS Victory Compact 8x20 Binoculars3rd prize ZEISS Mono 10x25 T Monocular SEM prize ZEISS VR ONE – Virtual reality device,perfect companion for videos, games andaugmented realityThere is also a Head of Department cash prize of £300

We are searching for images and videos that relateto research or teaching in the Department orengineers out in the field, which may be beautiful,fascinating, intriguing, amusing, or possibly all ofthese things.

Email photographs to photo-competition@eng.cam.ac.uk

Video can be sent using a free large file transferservice such as dropbox, or sent on a CD to Jacqueline Saggers BEO-23 by 12th June 2015.Full details at www.eng.cam.ac.uk/photocomp

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PHOTOGRAPHYCOMPETITION 2015At the Department of Engineering Sponsored by ZEISS