Cardiff University IMRC

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• Cardiff University IMRC
• Developing Delivering Sustainable Solutions
• Directors Prof. P. Hines, Prof. M. Naim, Prof.
  D. Pham
• Deputy-Directors Dr. S. Dimov, Dr. C. Lalwani,
  Dr. N. Rich

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Cardiff University

• Ranked 7th in last RAE
• All Centre staff received 5 rating
• Business UoA panel highlighted our manufacturing
  research as making a significant impact
• Universitys Vice Chancellor is committed to
  consolidation of manufacturing research, with
  infrastructural funding earmarked

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Experience Innovation

• Gaining synergy through multi-disciplinary
  manufacturing research
• Combining expertise of 3 recognised leading
  groupings
• Lean Enterprise Research Centre (LERC)
• Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC)
• Logistics Systems Dynamics Group (LSDG)
• Focus on application of range of sustainable
  lean, rapid agile methods
• Five existing collaborative projects

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Specific areas of Existing Expertise

• Business Process Engineering Management
• Lean Management
• eCommerce
• Costing Systems
• Simulation
• Systems Dynamics
• Intelligent Process Modelling
• Logistics
• Concurrent Engineering
• Rapid Manufacturing
• Virtual Prototyping

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A New Sustainability Agenda

• it would mean the development adoption of
  new paradigms of production consumption. These
  in turn would require a quantum leap in resources
  to enable manufacturing to research implement
  these paradigms
• Future of Manufacturing in Europe 2015-2020,
• EU DG RTD/G, April 2003

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Working for Wealth

• reducing manufacturing costs and increasing
  sustainability often go together and
  companies capitalising on process efficiencies
  and supply chain partnership opportunities will
  be able to turn ethical and sustainable operating
  characteristics into marketable competitive
  differentiators.

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Strategic Intent

• Build on the successful individual joint track
  records of LERC, MEC LSDG
• Integrate engineering management knowledge
• Focus on longer term sustainable solutions, not
  short term problems
• Develop an industry focused research incubator
• Become recognised as the World Leader in Long
  Term Sustainable Solutions
• Provide generic research outputs for both high
  low volume industries
• Develop a World Class education, training,
  dissemination exploitation framework

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Research Themes

• Sustainable Change
• Sustainable Technologies
• Sustainable Logistics
• All developing delivering Sustainable
  Solutions
• Each theme will have one major flagship
  programme with a number of smaller exploratory
  projects open for competitive internal bidding

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CU-IMRC
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Sustainable Change

• How can manufacturing improvement activities
  regularly reliably be turned into the basis of
  long term business success rather then quick wins
  that are often fleeting fail to reach the
  bottom line?
• Gaps in research at
• Sustainability at site, supply chain group
  levels
• Development of typology integrating system for
  firms to achieve sustainable change at all scales
• Sustainability outside of the Order Fulfilment
  process

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Sustainable Logistics

• How can manufacturing industry develop deliver
  the physical movement of product in the complete
  supply chain so that it meets the short
  long-term needs of individual customers the
  wider society?
• Gaps in research at
• Making new manufacturing trends systems such as
  mass customisation global sourcing acceptable
  to sustainable societal needs
• Internalising external environmental impact costs
• The development implementation of sustainable
  whole costing systems

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Sustainable Technologies

• How can knowledge-driven technologies (e.g.
  Future Proof Technologies, Miniaturisation
  Waste Minimisation) be developed successfully
  implemented to lead to a higher value-added
  manufacturing economy over at least the medium
  term horizon
• Gaps in research at
• An integrated holistic approach to the
  technologies required for the complete product
  life-cycle
• Making existing knowledge-based technologies
  economically successful particularly at
  large-scale production
• Micro manufacturing technologies outside of
  silicon

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BRASS

• Working with the Cardiff Universitys ESRC
  sponsored centre of excellence
• Exists to understand and promote the key issues
  of sustainability, accountability and social
  responsiveness, through research into key
  business relationships
• Current joint work on
• reverse logistics, reverse
• supply chains
• remanufacturing

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A sample of companies in an automotive supply
network (Childerhouse, 2001)
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Total supply chain strategies

• eCommerce
• eBusiness
• Vendor Managed Inventory
• Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and
  Replenishment
• Centralised Point of Control
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Units of analysis
Dyadic structure
Network structure
Supply chain structure
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Utilising system theory during supply chain
lifecycle (based on Naim and Towill, 1994)
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Spectrum of Systems Approaches
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Research approach

• Incorporating
• multi-disciplinary team
• fundamental concepts and theories,
• action research and development
• implementation change programmes
• longitudinal monitoring studies
• maximising scope

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Scope model (based on Evans et al., 1999)

Covers

Material flows

Information flows

Cash flows

Resource flows

Covers

Width Dimension

Activity

Work process

Business process
Breadth Dimension

Business unit

Dyadic link

Supply chain

Network
Depth Dimension

Covers

Organisational structure

Attitudes and culture

Financial

Technological

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Contact details

• NaimMM_at_cf.ac.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]