Background

BA (Hons) First Class – Open University (1991)
MSc – De Montfort University (1994)
PhD – Loughborough University (1996)

I joined Loughborough University in January 1992, after working in industry for many years. My industrial experience includes textile production and engineering, and immediately prior to joining Loughborough University, I spent 7 years working in R&D at Rank Taylor Hobson Ltd., manufacturers of metrology instruments. My experiences are mostly in the areas of mathematics and computing for manufacturing. I also worked for the Open University for many years in various capacities, including teaching and writing course materials.

School Research Groups

Manufacturing
Product Realisation Technologies

Research Interests and Activities

Knowledge management and reuse,
Knowledge Management Solutions and Selection Tools for Engineering Organisations
‘Best Practice’ knowledge capture and reuse.
Tools to support knowledge sharing within collaborative teams,
Moderator Technology for product design, manufacturing systems design and virtual enterprises
Semantic Web Services in Intelligent Manufacturing
Knowledge discovery and data mining applications in manufacturing,
Extracting Knowledge from Post Project Reviews
Text and Data Mining
Information–Centred Approaches to Enterprise Modelling for Product Recovery
Simulation Modelling and Optimization of Product Recovery Networks
Simulation Modelling for Stock Integrity

External Activities

Member of editorial board of International Journal of Production Research,
Guest Editor for Special Issue of Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing on Knowledge Discovery and Management in Engineering Design and Manufacturing (due for publication 2008)
Session Chair at The Institute of Industrial Engineers’s Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC 2006), May 20 – 24, 2006, Orlando, Florida USA, Invited Paper at The Third UK Symposium on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (UKKDD-2007) 25th April, 2007, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Journal Referee for International Journal of Production Research, International Journal Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Computers in Industry, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Technology and Applications, Journal of Robotics and Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology and others
EU Collaborative Research:
IMS Mission Project (EC (ESPRIT) Contract No: EP29656 (1/11/98 to 31/10/01)
SYNERGY - FP7-ICT-2007 (7th Framework Programme – ICT in support of the networked enterprise) EU Grant number 216089 (1/2/08 to 31/1/11)

Publications

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Teaching Responsibilities

Responsible Examiner for undergraduate and masters modules in Project Management (MMC207), Manufacturing Planning & Control (MMC203) and Operations Management (MMP263).

University Administration

Admissions Tutor for Manufacturing Engineering Management (MEM)

Further Links

Link to SYNERGY (my new EU research Project)