Dr Peter Ball
Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing Operations
Location: Building 50, Cranfield campus
E: p.d.ball@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x5657
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
Dr Peter Ball is the Course Director for the Engineering and Management of Manufacturing Systems course and also the Sustainable Manufacturing course within the Manufacturing Programme.
Dr Ball is involved in the following activities:
- Manufacturing system design and operation
- Simulation modelling of manufacturing, supply chain and engineering service systems
- Sustainable manufacturing implementation methods and tools
Clients
- Airbus
- Alcan
- BAE Systems
- Fibercore
- Ford
- Highland Spring
Background
Starting from a base in manufacturing simulation Peter’s work has expanded to include production planning and control, manufacturing supply design, supply chain design and sustainable manufacturing simulation and modelling. Research projects have ranged from production improvement to systems implementation and from supply chain diagnostics to sustainable manufacturing. He has worked on a number of projects in the areas of engineering service systems and sustainable manufacturing including EPSRC funded project “Discrete Event Simulator for Modelling Support Services in an Engineering Environment” the TSB funded project on Through Life Energy and Resource Modelling (THERM) and the“EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing (CIM) on Industrial Sustainability”
As a chartered member (CEng) of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a member of the Institute of Operations Management (IOM), he has worked with several SMEs on supply chain diagnostic and improvement programmes as a result of being appointed as a Supply Chain Counsellor for the development agency, Scottish Enterprise. Additionally Peter is an Associate of the Higher Education Academy’s Engineering Subject Centre capturing and disseminating best practice in engineering education.
