Dr Ip-Shing Fan
Senior Lecturer
Location: Building 50, Cranfield campus
E: i.s.fan@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x5651
Manufacturing
Current activities
Dr Ip-Shing Fan is the currently the Course Director of the Enterprise System Implementation programme at Cranfield University, UK.
Fan has two main areas of activities. One area is the effective design, development, implementation and use of ICT in business and non-business organisations. This area started in early 2000 when many client companies were seeking help after expensive IT systems implementation. From the observations of implementation failures, he raised the European Commission supported research project BEST, Better Enterprise Systems Implementation. This 4 million euro project, with 12 partners in 10 countries, conducted in depth case studies into the organisation and business change aspects of implementing enterprise systems. Using a socio-technical approach, the project developed tools to provide organisation and human factor readiness assessment for enterprise systems; and assist in formulating change management plans to improve the readiness. He created the MSc in Enterprise System Implementation and is the Course Director. The programme is created to develop professionals who can contribute to successful deployment of IT to deliver business benefits.
The second area is in engineering integration. He has been working with the British aerospace industry since 1991 various manufacturing operations improvement initiatives. Working with Airbus UK, BAE SYSTEMS, MBDA and their supply chains, he has extensively investigated the integration of design and manufacture in aerospace global extended enterprise. Recently he worked with client companies on different aspects of engineering and manufacturing management.
He is the leader of the In Vehicle Health Management System Design project of the Boeing IVHM Centre in Cranfield.
Fan is a committee member and part of the Thought Leadership Team in the BCS Business Change Specialist Group. He is the Secretary and Education Liaison Officer of the Bedford Branch of BCS.
He is also a member of the IFIP(International Federation for Information Processing) Working Group 5.8 on Enterprise Interoperability.
Clients
- EPSRC
- EU Framework Programme and Asia-Link Programme
- DTI Technology Programme
- SAP
- T-Systems
- Airbus UK
- BAE SYSTEMS
- AVIC II
- Meggitt
- Pitney Bowes
Background
Fan completed his Bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Hong Kong with First Class Honours. After completing his engineer training in Qualidux Industrial Co Ltd, the largest hard toy and plastic product manufacturer at the time, he was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue his doctoral study. In 1989, he was awarded his doctorate in Computer Integrated Manufacturing by the then Cranfield Institute of Technology.
After a period of work as CADCAM Manager at Qualidux in Hong Kong, he was invited to return to Cranfield. He built up research in engineering products design and manufacturing with EPSRC and EU research grants. He has completed projects that developed knowledge based design for manufacturing systems and integrated CAD product and assembly design systems. Working with the aerospace industry, the research has lead to tools to implement concurrent engineering in aerospace supply chains. His team prepared the Best Practice Guide for Knowledge Based Engineering on behalf of the UK DTI.
Selected publications
- Fan, I, Wognum, N, Dodds, P, ‘Better Enterprise Systems Implementation’ Building the knowledge economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies. 2003. pp1236-1243. ISBN 1 58603-379-4.
- Fan, I, ‘Information Systems, Organisation and People Changes to Achieve Agile Manufacturing’, Proceedings of Advances in Agile Manufacturing, ICAM 2003, Beijing, China. pp. 17 – 24.ISBN 7-111-13395-1.
- Fan, I S, Wognum, N, Buhl, H, ‘Getting Organisation and Human Ready for Information Systems’, eAdoption and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies, Part 2, 2004. pp 1387-1394. ISBN 1 58603 470 7.
- Sedmak M, Fan I Wognum N, “Hidden Gems: What Literature Reveals About the Cases of Enterprise System Implementation”, Proceedings of British Academy of Management Conference, 30 Aug–1 Sep 2004, St Andrews, Scotland. ISBN 0-9549608-1-5.
- Najmi, M, Rigas, J Fan, I S, ‘A framework to review performance measurement systems’, Business Process Management Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp109–122, 2005. ISSN 1463-7154.
