Manufacturing Research Forum


2008-11-21 10:00: Bio-synthetic materials (Bill O’Nell (Centre for Industrial Photonics))

2008-11-28 10:00: Why is the IFM involved in Services and what are the challenges? (Duncan McFarlane)

2008-12-05 10:00: The design scoreboard project: an international comparison of design capabilities (James Moultrie (Centre for Technology Management))

2009-03-06 10:00: Landfill Mining (Claire Barlow (Production Group, IfM))

2009-03-13 10:00: Network Strategies of Small Chinese High-Technology Firms: A Qualitative Study (Wai-sum Siu (Hong Kong Baptist University))

2009-03-27 10:00: Visual Strategy (Rob Phal (Centre for Technology Management, IfM))

2009-04-03 10:00: Using Process Understanding in Process Transfer (Tom Cochrane (NAPP Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge Science Park))

2010-05-28 10:00: Improved Sustainability in Paper Making using Advanced Process Control (Paul Austin, CUED)

2010-06-04 10:00: Entrepreneurial Firm Acquisition: Mapping Seller Expectations (Caren Weinberg (CTM, IfM))

2010-06-11 10:00: Social Enterprises and Sustainable Developments (Kim Tan (Asia-Pacific Life Sciences Forum))

2010-06-18 10:00: Building Innovation Capabilities: An Inquiry into the Growth Process of USOs in China ( Joseph Zhou (CTM))

2010-06-25 10:00:  IfM Environmental Performance (Dai Morgan, IfM)

2010-07-02 10:00: Collaborations between IfM and BSI (tbc) (British Standard Institute (BSI))

2010-07-09 10:00: Engineering for Clinical Practice: or how Engineers and Clinicians can help each other (Graham Treece (Evelyn Trust Lecturer in Engineering Department))

2010-07-23 10:00: International Study Tours in Europe and India (ISMM International Manufacturing Study Tour Teams)

2010-10-01 10:00: MET II Overseas Research Project in Singapore and Malaysia (David Kirkwood (CIM))

2010-10-08 10:00: Business-Government Ties: lessons from China (Kulwant Singh (National University of Singapore))

2010-10-15 10:00: New Academic Year (Mike Gregory (Head of IfM))

2010-10-22 10:00: Manufacturing Strategy in UK Start-up Companies (Sirirat Lim (CSP))

2010-10-29 10:00: Developing a framework for depicting the radical innovation process in established firms (Lan Tao (CTM))

2010-11-05 10:00: UK Supermarket Industry and its Business Ecosystem (Elizabeth Garsey (tbc))

2010-11-19 10:00: Chinese Low Speed Electric Vehicle Industry Development: Shandong Province’s Experiences (Yongjiang Shi and Ke Rong (CIM))

2010-12-03 10:00: Developing a framework for depicting the radical innovation process in established firms (Lan Tao (Centre for Technology Management, IfM))

2010-12-10 10:00: SME Transformation (Alan Cousens (Education and Consultancy Service, IfM))

2011-02-11 10:00: Energy Security in Food Industry (Joe Davidson (Education and Consulting Service,IfM))

2011-02-18 10:00: Exploration of corporate social responsibility in food manufacturing companies (Padmakshi Rana (Sustainable Group))

2011-02-25 10:00: SME Transformation (Alan Cousens (Education and Consultancy Service, IfM))

2011-03-04 10:00: The nature of change in product design: Integrating aesthetic and technological perspectives (Andrew Muir Wood (Design Group))

2011-03-11 10:00: Getting help with Open Innovation: the role of intermediaries (Letizia Mortara (CTM))

2011-03-18 10:00: Policies, Programmes & Practices (Eoin O'Sullivan (CIG))

2011-03-25 10:00: Application of Financial Options to R&D for Decision Support (Joanathan Linton (Editor of Technovation))

2011-04-01 10:00: The Role Supply Networks and their key Actors in Emerging Industries (David Kirkwood (CIM))

2011-04-08 10:00: TBC (Andy Neely)

2011-10-14 10:00: Engineering Processes: an unique research methodology from IfM (Ken Platts (CSP))

2011-10-21 10:00: Findings from MET II Overseas Study tour to Trinidad (and Tobago) (Derek Ford (CES))

2011-10-28 10:00: Cluster Development and Evolutions in China: an example from Zhejiang Province (tbc) (Jiebing Wu (CIM Visiting Professor from Zhejiang University, China))

2011-11-04 10:00: Emerging Industry Development: Electric Vehicle Industry as an Example (tbc) (Paul Heffernan (EIP))

2011-11-11 10:00: Negotiating long-term targets to reduce CO2 emissions associated with consumer products (Nancy Bocken (Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability))

2011-11-18 10:00: Promoting Good Manufacturing: Countering "The story of Stuff" (Howard Harris (Visiting Professor working with Jim Platts))

2011-11-25 10:00: Global Supply Network for Emerging Industry Development (tbc) (Jag Srai and Tomas Harrington (CIM))

2011-12-02 10:00: The emergence of 'design leaders' in the fashion retail industry (Karen Miller (Design Group))

2011-12-09 10:00: Chinese Electric Vehicle Industry and its Business Ecosystems (Yongjiang Shi, Amy Shang, and Helen Zhang (CIM))

2011-12-16 10:00: Towards the Resilient Firm: Perspectives on IfM Research (Simon Ford and Maurizio Tomasella (CTM and DIAL))

2012-02-03 10:00: Emerging Nations’ MNCs and their Internationalisation (Peter Williamson, Afonso Flurry, and IfM CIM (extended Buns Talk))

2012-02-10 10:00: MET Overseas Research Project 2011 - Trinidad (Derek Ford (IfM ECS))

2012-02-17 10:00: Nurturing Business Ecosystem from Firm Perspectives (Ke Rong (Bournemouth University))

2012-02-24 10:00: Opportunities and Resources for Innovation by SMEs (Elizabeth Garnsey (CTM))

2012-03-02 10:00: Emerging Industry Development: Electric Vehicle Industry as an Example (Paul Heffernan (CTM and IMRC))

2012-03-09 10:00: TBC (Christoph Loch (Director of JBS))

2012-03-30 10:00: Open Innovation, Sustainability and Resilience are all System Dynamics: How to Model and Measure them (Charles Hampdon-Turner)

2013-05-10 10:00: Future of Manufacturing - an insight into the UK Government (Elliott More and Carlos Lopez-Gomez)

2013-05-17 10:00: ISMM International Manufacturing Study Tour in Turkey (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-05-24 10:00: Silicon Valley – Can it be Copied? (ISMM )

2013-06-07 10:00: Teaching and Learning from Short Industrial Placements (Judith Shawcross, Manufacturing Industry Education Research Group, IfM)

2013-06-14 10:00: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - Government grant to help UK Business into open innovation by working with UK Academics (Jan Stringer, regional adviser from the Technology Strategy Board)

2013-06-14 10:00: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - Government grant to help UK Business into open innovation by working with UK Academics (Jan Stringer, regional adviser from the Technology Strategy Board)

2013-06-17 10:00: Towards a strategic view of engineering operations (Yufeng Zhang, Birmingham Business School, Birmingham University )

2013-06-28 10:00: ECS business plan for the next financial year (Peter Templeton, IfM ECS (Education and Consultancy Services Ltd))

2013-07-12 10:00: The structural nature of global supply chain emissions and the potential influence of regions, industries and enterprises (Andrew Skelton, the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR))

2013-10-18 10:00: To own or not to own - Absent ownership as barrier to user innovation (Frank Tietze, CTM visitor and holds a faculty position in the Institute for Innovation Research at Kiel University in Germany )

2013-10-25 10:00: Value Mapping and Tapping in Industrial Symbiosis (Steve Evans, Director of EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability, IfM)

2013-11-01 10:00: Evolutions of the Cambridge Phenomenon (Tim Minshall)

2013-11-08 10:00: UK-India Food Supply Chains (Mukesh Kumar, Centre for International Manufacturing, IfM)

2013-11-13 16:00: Global Strategy of Multinational Corporations (Professor Chris Carr, Business School of Edinburgh University )

2013-11-15 10:00: Wes Harry on Cultures and Sustainability (Dr Wes Harry)

2013-11-22 10:00: IfM Goes Nano (Michael De Volder, IfM new lecturer in Nanomanufacturing and Engineering Design)

2013-11-29 10:00: International development - How innovation, resilience and manufacturing can alleviate poverty and progress sustainability (Dr Samir Doshi)

2013-12-06 10:00: Enablers of Scale Up in the Process Industry (Manjusha Thorpe, Centre for Technology Management, Cambridge University)

2014-01-17 10:00: Inter-firm Cooperation among Manufacturing Firms (Professor Baris Tan, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey)

2014-01-31 10:00: International operations management in Brazilian multinationals: contributions to theory and practice (Afonso Fleury, Silas Ferreira, and Yongjiang Shi)

2014-02-07 10:00: Understanding the Characteristics of Design Leaders in the Fashion Retail Industry (Karen Miller, IfM)

2014-02-21 10:00: Competing and Co-existing Business Models for EV: Lessons from International Case Studies (Claire Weiller; Amy Shang. IfM)

2014-02-28 10:00: From product to service categories: new business models in publishing (Anna Viljakainen, Cambridge Service Alliance)

2014-03-07 10:00: Cultural roots of Chinese Innovation: the case of China's most successful "illegal" Electric Vehicle Manufacturer (Helen Zhang, CIM)

2014-03-21 10:00: Transformation of traditional manufacturers towards servitized organisations (Doroteya Vladimirova, CIS/IfM)

2014-03-28 10:00: Chinese MNEs and Huawei's technology upgrading (Dr Huaichun Rui, University of London)

2014-05-02 10:00: Business Ecosystem (BE) Exploration and its Impacts on Operations Management (Dr Yongjiang Shi, Centre for International Manufacturing, IfM)

2014-05-09 10:00: Business Models and Technological Innovation ( Charles Baden-Fuller, City University, London)

2014-05-16 10:00: Creating New Business Opportunities with Radically Disruptive Technologies (Jim Keri Li)

2014-05-30 10:00: ISMM International Manufacturing Study Tours (ISMM Students, IfM)

2014-06-06 10:00: Light-Weighting Innovation Strategy: A Roadmap-Portfolio Toolkit (Clare Farrukh, Nikoletta Athanassopoulou,Michèle Routley )

2014-06-13 10:00: Changeable Production Systems in Global Networks (Steven Peters)

2014-06-20 10:00: Open Access: HEFCE announcement and implications for the next REF (Niamh Tumelty, Dapartment of Engineering)

2014-07-04 10:00: Enhancing the impact of the Department's Research - so how does the Department's Fourth Theme work (Charles Boulton, Department of Engineering)

2014-07-11 10:00: Sustainable Economical Development: A Long-term Perspective in the Automotive Industry (Joachim Kuhn)

2014-07-11 14:00: Growing Enterprises Through a Technology Upgrading Strategy – The Case of Singapore's GET-UP Program as an Alternative Mode of Technology Transfer (Annie Ruan)

2014-07-18 10:00: Final IfM Buns Talk of this Term: Zhaohui Wu on Cultural Embeddedness in Supply Network (Zhaohui Wu)

2014-10-17 10:00: What's Next for IfM? (Mike Gregory  (Head of IfM))

2014-10-24 10:00: Cashing in on your Research-Cambridge Enterprise explore ways of working with industry (Gillian Davis and Julian Peck(Technology Manager and Senior Technology Associates, Cambridge Enterprise Ltd))

2014-10-31 10:00: Business Model and its Innovation (tbc) (Chander Velu)

2014-11-07 10:00: Assessing the Customer Value-in-Use of integrated Products and Services (Veronica Martinez  (Cambridge Service Alliance))

2014-11-14 10:00: Bootstrapping university-industry consortia: the Strategic Technology & Innovation Management(STIM)programme (Rob Phaal (CTM))

2014-11-21 10:00: Varieties of technologies for S&T-based innovation: an analysis of emerging synthetic biology R&D priorities (Laure Dodin and Eoin O'Sullivan(Centre for Science, Technology&Innovation Policy))

2014-11-28 10:00: Engineering Graduate Employability: an international comparison study (Tom Ridgman(ISMM and MIER))

2014-12-05 10:00: Implementing corporate lean programs in global networks (Torbjørn Netland(Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)))

2015-01-16 10:00: The Servitization of Manufacturing: Technology Enabled Innovation (Andy Neely (Cambridge Service Alliance))

2015-01-23 10:00: From curing to sensing using microwave energy (Marc Desmulliez (School of Engineering and Physical Science, Herriot-Watt University))

2015-01-30 10:00: International operations networks from the emerging country multinationals (Afonso Fleury (Department of Production Engineering, Sao Paulo University, Brazil))

2015-02-06 10:00: Evolvable Manufacturing Processes and Systems – Towards Open, Adaptable and Context-Aware (Svetan Ratchev (Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, Nottingham University))

2015-02-13 10:00: Developing low carbon supply network: an Influence-Measurement-Improvement Framework (Jialun Hu (Centre for International Manufacturing, IfM))

2015-02-20 10:00: Designing user behaviour: a new direction for Sustainable Design (Tracy Bhamra (Design School, Loughborough University))

2015-02-27 10:00: Tool development work (tbc) (Imoh ILEVBARE (Education and Consultancy Service, IfM))

2015-03-06 10:00: Chinese Culture – Yin-Yang and it Dynamic Balancing (tbc) (Helen Zhang (Centre for International Manufacturing))

2015-03-13 10:00: Surface Infratechnology (Jane Jiang (EPSRC Centre in Advanced Metrology, Huddersfield University) )

2015-03-20 10:00: Yin-Yang and the Chinese business model ( Charles Hampden-Turner (a Cambridge philosopher and author))

2015-03-27 10:00: Executive Education for Engineers (tbc) (Tom Ridgman (ISMM and MIER, IfM))

2015-04-17 10:00: Service typology: A classification model for product-service offerings (Veronica Martinez, a Senior Research Associate in Cambridge Service Alliance)

2015-05-01 10:00: Sustainable value creation in manufacturing through maintenance services (Maria Holgado Centre for Industrial Sustainability)

2015-05-08 10:00: ISMM 49 International Manufacturing Study Tours (ISMM Students)

2015-05-15 10:00: New Role of Manufacturing Science &Technology toward Value Creation (Professor Kanji Ueda （University of Tokyo）)

2015-05-22 10:00: Insights on the Rise of China (Charles Hampden-Turner)

2015-05-29 10:00: Models, models everywhere and not a one to want: some reflections on costing availability as an advanced service (Dr Ettore Settanni， research associate in Centre for International Manufacturing)

2015-06-19 10:00: Seeing advanced services as socio-technical systems: What can we learn from accident investigation? (Nils Thenent (Bath University))

2015-06-26 10:00: Risk and resilience of global supply chains: A study of food product safety in a cross-border supply chains (Mukesh Kumar CIM)

2015-07-03 10:00: Challenging Assumptions - Liberal UK economic policies since 1979 have not spurred growth (Ken Coutts and Graham Gudgin)

2015-07-10 10:00: Designing Research for Theory and Practice (Judith Shawcross (MIERG))

2015-10-09 09:45: Update IfM (Prof. Andy Neely )

2015-10-16 10:00: Future Manufacturing (Steve Evans (CIS))

2015-10-23 10:00: China's Path to Innovation (Xiaolan Fu (Oxford University Development Studies))

2015-10-30 10:00: Update on Centre for Technology Management projects on 3D printing / additive manufacturing (Researchers from the Centre for Technology Management)

2015-11-06 10:00: Return to the High Value Manufacturing Landscape (Andrew Gill (ECS))

2015-11-13 10:00: 'Grand Challenges' for Manufacturing Research: A Review of International Perspectives, Policies & Priorities (Eoin O'Sullivan (Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (CSTI))

2015-11-20 10:00: Introducing the New JOM (Journal of Operations Management) (Professor Mikko Ketokivi )

2015-11-27 10:00: IP challenges for manufacturing firms in emerging technologies (Frank Tietze (CTM))

2015-12-04 10:00:  Sustainable Value Analysis for Product-Service  Systems (PSS) (Miying Yang (CIS))

2015-12-11 10:00: Enquiry-based Interdisciplinary Learning in Engineering Practice (Nazri Mahmud (MIERG))

2015-12-18 10:00: Cross-IfM Research Opportunity Discussions on the Future of Manufacturing - Results so far (Prof. Andy Neely)

2016-01-15 10:00: Essential Characteristics of Successful Business Models (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-01-29 10:00: Power and governance in the digital games industry supply chains (Afonso Fleury and Maria Tereza Leme Fleury)

2016-02-05 10:00: Chinese Industrialisation and its Implications to the Production and Operations Management Theories (Dr Yongjiang Shi (Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University))

2016-02-12 10:00: Understanding all value being exchanged between businesses in service ecosystems (Dr Florian Urmetzer (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-19 10:00: Sustaining UK Industry (Steve Evans (CIS))

2016-02-26 10:00: Four fundamental frameworks of foresight (Charles Featherston (University of Cambridge))

2016-03-04 10:00: Maintenance Optimization for Complex Assets (Zhenglin Liang (Research Associate))

2016-03-11 10:00: Optimising High Value Manufacturing (HVM) (John Sullivan (ISMM))

2016-03-18 10:00: Student projects – a framework to support teaching and learning (Judith Shawcross - IfM (MIERG))

2016-04-22 10:00: 10:00 - 10:30 German Manufacturing Study Tour: Industry 4.0 and German Manufacturing Characteristics  10:30 - 11:00 India Manufacturing Study Tour: Make in India - will it be successful? (ISMM Students)

2016-04-29 10:00: Understanding Value for Sustainability (Dr Doroteya Vladimirova (University of Cambridge))

2016-05-06 10:00: Transformative Industrial Policy for Africa - A study for the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (Jostein Lohr Hauge)

2016-05-13 10:00: The Socio-Digital Construction of Reality: New Challenges for IS Research (Youngjin Yoo)

2016-05-20 10:00: Business Model Evolution: A Systems Perspective (Chander Velu)

2016-05-27 10:00: Sustainable Manufacturers: On the sustainability-firm performance relationship (Arild Aspelund)

2016-06-10 10:00: Effects of social capital on risks of outcome-based contracts from the supplier's perspective (Jingchen Hou (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-14 10:00: Cambridge Phenomenon: Update and Implications for IfM Manufacturing Research (Tim Minshall (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-21 10:00: Exploring the Relationship between International Supply Network Configuration and Policy: Interventions, Influences and Capabilities (Arsalan Ghani (University of Cambridge))

2016-10-28 10:00: Design support for eco-efficiency improvements in manufacturing (Lampros Litos (CIS))

2016-11-04 10:00: Connecting Companies in Business Ecosystems: Towards a Classification Model (Dr Florian Urmetzer (University of Cambridge))

2016-11-18 10:00: Opting In and Spinning Out: Find out how Cambridge Enterprise can help you commercialise your ideas (Charlanne Ward (Technology Manager), Julian Peck (Senior Technology Associate), and Ben Ting (Technology Associate) l from Cambridge Enterprise; and Ashwin Seshia (Professor of Microsystems Technology in Cambridge University Engineering Departmen)

2016-11-25 10:00: The evolutionary perspective on technology roadmaps: Towards the era of roadmap 2.0 (Sungjoo Lee (Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Ajou University, Suwon, Korea))

2016-11-25 10:00: The evolutionary perspective on technology roadmaps: Towards the era of roadmap 2.0 (Sungjoo Lee (Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Ajou University, Suwon, Korea))

2016-12-02 10:00: Supply Network Analytics: lessons learned from large-scale data (Alexandra Brintrup (University of Cambridge))

2016-12-09 10:00: Value Uncaptured Perspective for Sustainable Business Model Innovation (Miying Yang (University of Cambridge))

2017-01-23 10:00: Managing practices in turbulent environments (Afonso Fleury and Maria Tereza Fleury)

2017-02-03 10:00: Stakeholder Capitalism and the Case for a Circular Economy which creates wealth for all (Charles Hampden-Turner)

2017-02-10 10:00: Introduction to research data management and the data champion initiative (Ettore Settanni )