Dr Tariq Masood
KTP Associate - Design for Service Automation Engineer
Location: Rolls-Royce, Derby
E: tariq.masood@cranfield.ac.uk
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
Dr Tariq Masood is a Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate at the Integrated Maintenance Centre under the Manufacturing and Materials Department of Cranfield University.
His current research is focused on developing next generation global service knowledge backbone to establish feedback to product design and manufacture so that operational disruption and maintenance costs are reduced at earlier product lifecycle stages.
While based at Rolls-Royce, Tariq collaborates with global Rolls-Royce stakeholders mainly in USA, Canada, Germany and the UK across civil aerospace, defence, energy and marine sectors. He also facilitates a global community of practice on Design for Service within Rolls-Royce and supports other communities of practice on turbines, controls, oil systems and knowledge management.
As part of his current role, Tariq also supervises demonstrator application development work of a small team of programmers/analysts based at different sites of Rolls-Royce globally.
Clients
- Rolls-Royce
- EPSRC – The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- TSB – The Technology Strategy Board
- KTP – The Knowledge Transfer Partnership Office
- University of Cambridge
- Loughborough University
- HEC – The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
- NUST – The National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Background
Dr Tariq Masood gained his PhD in Reconfigurable Manufacturing Enterprises from Loughborough University, where he was part of the Manufacturing System Integration Research (MSI) Institute. He has also worked at the UK Centre of Excellence in Customised Assembly (CECA) of Loughborough University, where he worked on digital modelling of cooperating hexapod robots for aerospace applications.
During his time at Loughborough University, Tariq has collaborated with the Ford Motor Company, ACM Bearings Ltd, Bradgate Furniture Ltd, Physik Instumente (PI), Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (and Rolls-Royce Factory of the Future) of Sheffield University and Precision Machining Centre of Nottingham University.
Prior to this, he has worked for six years in industrial environments related to advance machining, bi-axially oriented polypropylene film (BOPP) production and maintenance. Tariq also has a few years experience of university level teaching and supervision in advance machining, computer aided design/manufacturing, production planning and control, quality management systems and graphical communication.
For nearly a decade, Tariq has been involved in scientific committee work of various international conferences mainly organised by:
- IEEE – The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, USA
- IMechE – The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK
- IASTED – The International Association of Science and Technology for Development, Canada
- ASME – The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- CIRP – The International Academy for Production Engineering (or The College International pour la Recherche en Productique)
- UN - The United Nations.
Tariq has delivered keynote speeches and chaired technical sessions during international conferences. He is a reviewer of the Proceedings of the IMechE, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. He is also a member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).
Selected publications
- Masood, T. and Weston, R.H. (2011). “An integrated modelling approach in support of next generation reconfigurable manufacturing systems”, International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology (IJCAET), 3(3-4), pp. 372-398, April.
- Masood, T., Weston, R.H. and Rahimifard, A. (2010). “A computer integrated unified modelling approach to responsive manufacturing”, International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (IJISE). 5(3), pp. 287-312, March.
- Masood, T. (2009). "Enhanced integrated modelling approach to reconfiguring manufacturing enterprises". PhD Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Thesis, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK.
- Zhen, M., Masood, T., Rahimifard, A. and Weston, R.H. (2009). “A structured modelling approach to simulating dynamic behaviours in complex organisations”, Production Planning & Control – The Management of Operations. 20(6), pp. 496-509, September.
- Rashid, S., Masood, T., and Weston, R.H. (2009). “Unified modelling in support of organisation design and change”, Proceedings of the Instn. of Mech. Engrs., Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture. 223(8), pp. 1055-1079, September.
- Wahid, B.M., Ajaefobi, J.O., Agyapong-Kodua, K., Masood, T. and Weston, R.H. (2008). “Enterprise Modelling in support of methods based engineering: lean implementation in an SME bearing manufacturer”, Proc. of International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR), Brunel University, UK, Pp. 391-402, September 9-11.
- Masood, T. and Weston, R.H. (2008). “An integrated model driven approach in support of next generation reconfigurable manufacturing systems”, Proc. of 4th Virtual International Conference on Intelligent Production Machines and Systems (I*PROMS), The Internet (Organised by Cardiff University), UK, July 1-14.
