IfM News May 2015No 209

Focus on: IfM Briefing DayThe IfM Briefing Day, an annual event for friends and collaborators who want to learn more about what’s going on at the IfM, was held on 14 May. The day was packed with presentations where delegates heard about our latest research, shown recent case studies demonstrating practical applications and were given an outline of our education programmes.

More than 150 people attended, most of which senior representatives from industry and government. The programme included plenty of occasions for networking and chances for delegates to meet IfM researchers and discuss the topics that were presented.

Briefing Day presentationsWhat’s new at the IfM? - Mike Gregory

Business model innovation: research and practice across the IfM - Chander Velu

Sustainable business modelling - Steve Evans

Making the shift to service-based business models - Veronica Martinez

Bit-by-bit – the digital fabrication revolution - Tim Minshall

Developing manufacturing talent - Judith Shawcross

Effective technology and innovation management - Yuta Hirose, Clive Kerr, Michèle Routley, Letizia Mortara, David Probert and Binqing Zhao

Industrial strategies for national, regional and local policymakers - Andrew Gill and Carlos Lopez-Gomez

Capturing value from global networks - strategic approaches to configuring international production, supply and service operations - Jag Srai, Tomás Harrington, Mukesh Kumar and Eric Harris

Industrial information and automation - Duncan McFarlane, Liz Salter, Alan Thorne, Ajith Parlikad and Phil Woodall

Designing disruption - James Moultrie

Manufacturing footprint strategy - Paul Christodoulou and Don Fleet

NanoManufacturing - Michael De Volder

Industrial inkjet technology - Ian Hutchings and Graham Martin

Advanced manufacturing research: A pathway from lab to commercial scale - Ronan Daly

Presentations and resources can be found here: www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/ifm-briefing-day-2015

New project investigates impact of equipment sharing on innovationFrank Tietze (CTM) and Tom Oberquelle (Kiel University, Institute for Innovation Research) have launched a survey to understand the impact of equipment sharing on user innovativeness. The project builds on Frank’s prior work to understand how a lack of equipment ownership may impact the way users innovate.

The project collects data from German farmers organised in “Maschinenringen” (MR), local organisations which provide a sharing platform enabling farmers to jointly use their equipment, and is supported by the German MR federation (Bundesverband der Maschinenringe).

The MR concept has been highly successful for 50 years and can be seen as a pioneering concept of the sharing economy.

For more information: www.mr-feldstudie.de

Input wanted for the development of UK National Strategy for 3D printing/Additive ManufacturingThe Technology Enterprise Group and CSTI are helping to run an open ‘Call for Evidence’ on the opportunities and barriers relating to the adoption of 3D printing/additive manufacturing in the UK. This evidence will be used to underpin the development of a national strategy to support the use of these technologies.

Input would be welcome from any individuals, companies, research groups and other organisations with an interest in the development and application of these technologies.

More information can be found at www.amnationalstrategy.uk

For any queries, please contact tim.minshall@eng.cam.ac.uk

Update on CIM’s AMSCI Remedies project

CIM has secured the grant for the £23m AMSCI Remedies project on Reconfiguring Medicines Supply Chains, in which the centre has programme management responsibilities. It has also secured research grant funds of £1.5m.

More information on the project: bit.ly/1FbjAuj

MET student wins entrepreneurship awardMET student James Popper’s company was awarded a £5,000 prize in the Science and Technology category at the 2015 Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE) competition. Sinclair Fire has developed a new type of kitchen fire alarm which uses infra-red technology to detect fires quickly and accurately.

Tim Minshall (CTM) presented the awards held on 13 May. CUE, the brainchild of Mike Gregory and Hermann Hauser, was launched in 1999 to support student entrepreneurship and over the last 16 years has produced an impressive list of business ideas.

Visit www.cue.org.uk to learn more.

Honourable Mention Award for Leila AlinaghianLeila Alinaghian (CIM) received an Honourable Mention Award in the category of Management and Social Sciences in the Association of British Turkish Academics (ABTA) 2015 Doctoral Researcher Award competition. The award ceremony took place at University College London (UCL) on 16 May.

Veronica Martinez speaks at The Service Community ConferenceVeronica Martinez (CSA) was recently an invited guest speaker at The Service Community Conference, held at Fujitsu’s headquarters in Stevenage. She presented part of her research focused on the shift to services, particularly from an outcome-based services perspective.

Andy Neely shares servitization expertise with ChinaAndy Neely (CSA) gave a keynote speech at the Symposium on Servitization and Service Innovation in Shanghai, China. He talked about ‘Innovating your service business model: the capabilities to succeed’.

He also gave a presentation at the South China University of Technology on ‘What do we know about the servitization of manufacturing: business models and global trends’.

New head of IfM announcedCongratulations to Andy Neely (CSA) who will be the new Head of the IfM, effective from 1 October. As well as this role, Andy will be taking over as Head of Division E of the Department of Engineering and as Professor of Manufacturing Engineering, following Mike Gregory’s retirement.

New Drs at the IfMCongratulations to the IfM’s new Drs Man Hang Yip (CTM), Leila Alinaghian (CIM), Vaggelis Giannikas (DIAL), Rasha Rezk (CIM) and now ‘double Dr’ Steve Hoath (IRC).

Yip’s dissertation was on “Healthcare product-service system characterisation - implications for design”. Leila is currently heading up the research capability programme. Vaggelis joined DIAL as a Research Associate and Associate Director of the Cambridge Auto-ID Lab. Rasha has moved to Division C, working as a Research Associate at the Materials Engineering & Material-Tissue Interactions group and has been recently elected a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College. Steve is currently completing his Knowledge Transfer Fellowship with Xaar, while continuing as an Senior Research Associate in the IfM Inkjet Research Centre and as Fellow and Director of Studies for Engineering (Part 1 and MET) at Wolfson College.

A roadmap for carbon nanotube materials manufacture

Nicky Athanassopoulou (ECS) led a roadmapping workshop for the EPSRC-funded Advanced Nanotube and Manufacturing (ANAM) Initiative, where a world-leading group of material scientists and manufacturing and application engineers aim to scale up production of functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNT) by developing fundamental insights and new approaches to manufacture CNT materials. The workshop’s objectives were, among others, to identify key industrial needs and generate a list of possible applications or products for CNT materials and fibre, identify key enablers and barriers to CNT material and fibre incorporation and generate a list of research objectives for ANAM.

For more information visit: bit.ly/1FhcxRO

ECS and Lloyds Bank hold smart packaging eventOn 19 May, ECS and Lloyds Bank held a joint thought leadership event on the topic of smart packaging. ‘Good things come in smart packaging’ was attended by 50 delegates from the UK’s food and drink supply chain, who saw industry experts from Crown Packaging, PragmatIC Printing Ltd and RPC Containers as well as researchers from the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics and CTM share their insights.

The delegates heard how advances in smart packaging technologies could produce transformative applications in crucial areas such as food quality and safety, supply chain, brand protection and enhancement and user convenience.

The event was hosted by Karen Smith (ECS) and Nigel Sandbrook

from Lloyds Bank, which sponsored the event.

For more information visit: bit.ly/1G07kTX

ECS helps company win £50m contactECS has worked with Metalcraft, a Chatteris-based company which manufactures equipment for some of the world’s most hazardous environments, to help them identify their key issues and priorities and develop their business strategy.

This was part of the Civil Nuclear Sharing in Growth (CNSiG) programme, which aims to help the UK manufacturing supply chain win work in nuclear programmes at home and abroad.

The work carried out by Duncan Hurlstone was instrumental in helping the company win a contract valued £50m for the provision of high-integrity stainless steel storage containers for nuclear waste for Sellafield Ltd, the company responsible for delivering decommissioning of the UK’s nuclear legacy.

PrISMS case study: Newton CommercialThe latest ECS case study from the PrISMS programme focuses on Newton Commercial, a leading supplier of original specification interior trim for a range of classic cars such as the Mini. It supplies markets worldwide, as well as offering new modern seats, trim and other accessories. ECS worked with the company to reduce lead times by 50%, increase turnover by 23% per annum, increase staff levels by 11%, upgrade the enterprise resource planning system and more.

Read the full case study at bit.ly/1EzBnuC

New podcasts and webinars from the CSAAndy Neely and Chara Makri discuss their paper – “Through-life accountability: Managing complex services” bit.ly/1Kv7lQP

Ornella Benedettini discusses the research behind the paper “A Capability-Based View of Service Transitions”, where CSA researchers offer advice on the best way to make the transition from products to services bit.ly/1ApA1Yu

Claire Weller discusses her research into Electric Vehicles and the business models they use bit.ly/1ApA9qZ

Mohamed Zaki explains data-driven business models and the blueprint developed from CSA research bit.ly/1FQsG6m

FundraisingTim’s challengeLast year, Tim Minshall (CTM) attempt to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH) was scuppered by the cancelling of the Cambridge City Triathlon due to the dodgy quality of the water in the River Cam.

He has now decided to have a go at the Grafman ‘Ironman 70.3’ or ‘Half-Ironman’ distance triathlon on 28 June to raise money for both GOSH and Cancer Research UK. He has never done one of these before (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike ride and a 13.1 mile run, all as one race) so all donations to help the great work of the two charities will really help motivate him.

For those who kindly sponsored him last year, your donations have been carried across to this event.

You can donate to Tim in person or via uk.virginmoneygiving.com/tim-minshall.

‘Hope for Children’ Charity RaffleKatharina Greve (CSA) is selling tickets for a ‘Hope for Children’ Charity Raffle. Prizes include a Nintendo Wii U worth £200, restaurant vouchers and much more (see details below). If you would like to buy raffle tickets, please email Katharina kg403@cam.ac.uk

1 Ticket = £1.50 5 Tickets = £5 12 Tickets = £10

Fantastic Prizes to win!

£200 worth Nintendo Wii U £50 worth “The Olive Grove” restaurant voucher £40 worth “d’Arry’s” restaurant voucher £10 worth “Yo! Sushi” restaurant voucher

And many more. For a full prize list contact Katharina.

All money from the raffle ticket sale will go towards her fundraising initiative 2015cambridge.everydayhero.com/uk/katharina

The draw will be at the Newnham MCR Garden Party on 18 June. However, you don’t need to attend the Garden Party to claim your prize.

Happy news

On 26 April Frank Tietze’s (CTM)wife Alexandra gave birth to their ‘Cambridge baby’ at the Rosie Hospital. New daughter Frida is the first member of their families born abroad as far as they know. Her big brother Johan enjoys moving her crib - with her inside - around the house and the garden.Phil Catton’s (DIAL) son Sam was born at 8:59 on 28 April – his due date. He weighed 3.7kg at birth (about 8lbs 3) and evidently takes after his dad with regards to height – his legs were already too long for 0-3 month babygrows after three weeks.Congratulations to John Downing (ECS) who married Jennifer Schooling, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), in their home town of Newmarket on 10 April.

MET Design Show 2015

On 3 June, teams of MET students will display their design projects as part of the annual Design Show. The projects have generated some exciting new ideas and innovative technology in the past.

This year’s projects include: a laser music visualisation system; a revolutionary mobility device to help locomotor disabled people in India; and an automated variable candle maker for the luxury gadget market.

Come along from 18:00-19:30 to see some innovative design ideas created at the IfM.

First year PhD Conference

The 2015 First Year PhD Conference took place on 20 May. The annual event is organised and run by first year PhD students, who present their research to receive feedback from experienced researchers and peers at the IfM.

The event included a poster presentations competition in which students pitched their research to judges Andy Neely, Tim Minshall and Ian Hutchings.

This year’s winners were Na Jiao (CIS), Sam Brown (CIP) and Yoanna Shams (CIP).

CSA Annual ReportThe CSA Annual Report for 2014 is now available. It contains details of the CSA’s activities and information on how it created impact from its research.

Download the report here: http://bit.ly/1ABKjEv

Safe software for online surveysThe IfM now runs Limesurvey, a dedicated open source software for conducting online surveys. Running surveys on IfM-hosted software ensures that all collected data is not stored on third-party servers.

If you would like to use the software, please get in touch with Frank Tietze ft263@cam.ac.uk

A message from Steve HoathDear All

I am asking everyone at the Department of Engineering to offer support to the Nepalese people.

My long-time Cambridge inkjet collaborator Dr Tri Tuladhar has lost a young niece in the first earthquake and after-shocks continue to hit Nepal.

Please HELP in any way you can by supporting any charity as you see fit.

I have listed a few charities that are currently raising fund for the earthquake victims in Nepal.

1) mydonate.bt.com/events/earthquakechild/223973

2) www.dec.org.uk

3) www.facebook.com/nepalearthquakesupport

4) www.helpnepal.net

5) www.redcross.org.uk/nepalearthquake

6) donate.oxfam.org.uk/emergency/nepal?pscid=ps_msn_Emergencies_bing_nepal_earthquake_generic

7) www.unicef.org.uk/landing-pages/Donate-Nepal-Earthquake

8) internationalmedicalcorps.org/nepal-earthquake-donate?source=LPFBN1504

9) www.globalgiving.org

All your help, wishes and prayers are very much appreciated.

New people Ettore Settanni recently joined CIM as a Research Associate. He has completed a postdoc at the University of Bath within the research project Costing for Avionic Through-Life Availability (CATA), followed by a brief collaboration with the water and wastewater service industry.

Ettore holds a research doctorate in commodity science from the University of Bari (Italy) where he have also worked as a postdoc, and then as adjunct professor covering areas such as Environmental Management Accounting (EMA), Input-Output Analysis (IOA), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Technology and Innovation Management, Production Technology and Economics.

Upcoming eventPresenting unwanted results - what to do if it went wrong

Tuesday 2 June, 12:00-14:00

Department of Engineering, Lecture Room 11

IfM staff is invited to take part in this free workshop under the Collaboration Skills Initiative.

Presentation expert Adelina Chalmers, aka The Geek Whisperer, will teach you ways to present your results, especially if they weren’t what the sponsors wanted.

A free lunch will be available from 12:00, with presentation starting at 12:30.

Contact Jo Griffiths to confirm your attendance and dietary requirements jg393@cam.ac.uk

PublicationsBenedettini, O., Swink, M., Neely, A, Why do servitized firms fail? A risk-based explanation, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, June Issue www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/IJOPM-02-2014-0052

Granstrand, O., Tietze, F. , IP strategies and policies for and against evergreening. Institute for Manufacturing, CTM working paper series (01/15), Cambridge, UK, available at: bit.ly/1FQ2k2y

Hoath, S. , Hsiao, W.K., Martin, G., Hutchings, I., Oscillations of aqueous PEDOT:PSS fluid droplets and the properties of complex fluids in drop-on-demand inkjet printing, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics - accepted for Open Access publication this month.

Tietze, F., and Probert, D., Patent informatics for collaboration management, The Partner (May), 109-111

IfM in the newsVenturing metamorphisis Dayo Abinusawa (CTM) shares some findings from his PhD project on corporate venture capital. Global Corporate Venturing (print)

Chain reactions Jag Srai’s (CIM) contribution to the Economist Intelligence Unit report on how trade between emerging markets is reshaping global supply chains The Economist Intelligence Unit growthcrossings.economist.com

Developing lean and agile rotor blades Jim Platts (MET) explains what the wind turbine rotors of the future will be able to do. Wind Power Monthly www.windpowermonthly.com/article/1344896/developing-lean-agile-rotor-blades

UK engineering alliance announces supply chain initiative The Engineering and Machinery Alliance (Eama) announced plans for an industrial strategy for the machinery and allied components (MAC) sector based on a pilot study commissioned from the IfM. Drives & Controls www.drivesncontrols.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/4793/UK_engineering_alliance_announces_supply_chain_initiative.html