Dr Patrick McLaughlin
Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing Management
Location: Building 70, Cranfield campus
E: p.mclaughlin@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2384
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
Dr Patrick McLaughlin is the Programme Director and Course Director for the Operations Excellence MSc and the Fellowship in Operations Leadership.
He is interested in improving manufacturing management capability in industry and is focused on delivering education and professional development to practitioners.
Background
Dr Patrick McLaughlin is a Chartered Engineer and Eur Ing. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Production Management and a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), both from Cranfield.In a career that spans manufacturing engineer, manager and director, he has worked in both multinational and SME businesses. His experiences with a range of manufacturing processes and working for a number of different companies allied to experience in several industries has provided him with a strong background in managing manufacturing operations, including managing growth, downturn, restructuring and relocation of manufacturing facilities.
He has worked at director level in the manufacturing industry for over twenty years. He has been responsible for several plant-wide lean manufacturing implementations. He has experience of implementing and managing lean manufacturing in automotive, capital goods, industrial equipment and consumer durables. This experience includes responsibility for integrating the design and development of new products into a lean operations environment and developing a continuous improvement culture to facilitate performance gains in lean implementations.
