Cambridge and India
Manufacturing
Part of the Department of Engineering, the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) has forged strong links with industry and business both nationally and internationally, including extensive connections with both India and China. Industrial involvement underpins its research and education activities, facilitating the rapid transfer of new ideas and technologies into companies.
Companies collaborate with the IfM via long-term research programmes, academic/industrial forums and commissioned research. They work with researchers to address the most critical industrial issues, and to test and refine new techniques.
A team of industrial practitioners in the University-owned company IfM Education and Consultancy Services Ltd, applies research-based improvement techniques in companies of all sizes via a programme of industrial services. This provides a rapid dissemination route for new ideas and approaches and helps to inform future research.
Professor Sir Mike Gregory CBE
Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering
Professor Gregory is Head of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and of the Manufacturing and Management Division of the Department of Engineering.
India links: travelled to Mumbai in January 2010, as part of the previous Vice-Chancellor's visit, for a seminar on Industrial Sustainability. Travelled to India in January 2009 for a meeting of the Joint Economic and Trade Committee, and in September 2009 to attend the first meeting of the UK-India Industrial Innovation Forum, which aims to provide a high level focus for Industry-Academic-Government exchange and to encourage and enable joint projects. In 2008 he visited India as part of the previous Vice-Chancellor's programme in January and again in the summer as part of a UKTI mission. In 2007 he went as part of IfM's work for Lord Sainsbury's review of Science and Innovation, and met senior officials and industrialists and the Indian National Manufacturing Council.
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Dr Tim Minshall
Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering
Tim Minshall is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Centre for Technology Management and coordinator of the Technology Enterprise Group. His research interests are grouped around open innovation, funding of innovation and university-industry technology transfer. He is also a non-executive director of St John's Innovation Centre Ltd, Cambridge.
India links: co-author of the Funding Technology report series which analyses support for innovation in different national contexts.
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Dr Ajith Parlikad
Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering
Dr Parlikad is a University Lecturer at the Engineering Department, based at the Institute for Manufacturing. He is a member of the Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory and is currently running a number of projects aimed at improving industrial asset management.
India links: coordinator of the MET student study tour to India July 2009. Also coordinates internship projects at the IfM for IIT students.
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Dr Jagjit Singh Srai
Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering
Dr Srai is Head of the IfM's Centre for International Manufacturing, an academic and practice-focused group of some 25 personnel including lecturers, senior researchers and practitioners. Building on extensive industrial experience in this applied subject, the group operates in-depth collaborative projects with industry, integrating theory and practice, to develop manufacturing and supply chain capabilities and identify their associated network configuration models.
India links: study of Indian manufacturing and innovation capabilities as part of UK Government review of science and innovation policy.
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