Dr Jörn Mehnen
Senior Lecturer
Location: Building 50, Cranfield campus
E: j.mehnen@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x5653
Manufacturing
Current activities
Dr Jörn Mehnen is leading the £2m IMRC /EPSRC project RUAM (Ready to Use Additive Manufacturing) supported by around 35 national and international industry partners. He is co-investigator in the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Through-life Engineering Services at Cranfield University. He is also involved in the major Rolls-Royce/TSB/EPSRC funded project SILOET. The list of his active industry clients includes names such as Lockheed Martin, Airbus, EADS, easyJet or the Santander Bank.
Dr Jörn Mehnen is Course Director of the MSc course Global Product Development and Management. He is also leading the Doctoral Training Centre (DTC).
Dr Jörn Mehnen is also Privatdozent at the Technische Universität Dortmund in Germany.
Dr Jörn Mehnen has published 26 refereed journal papers and over 41 refereed conference papers, 8 book chapters and is author of 2 books and lead editor of another book. He is currently supervising 3 PhD researchers jointly with other colleagues and has supervised more than 35 mostly industry sponsored MSc Individual Projects.
Dr Jörn is a member of IEEE. He is organiser of Evolutionary Computation in Practice (ECP) track at the internationally leading conference on evolutionary computation GECCO consecutively since 2009. He is reviewer for internationally well renowned journals such as Applied Soft Computing, Computer-Aided Design, IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science parts B, C and G, Journal of the Franklin Institute as well as many conferences.
Key competencies:
- Real life application of computational intelligence techniques for modelling and optimisation
- Additive Layer Manufacturing technology and process development and real-world application
- Real life product and strategy design and service optimisation
- Developing whole life cost models for products and services.
Clients
- A1 Technologies
- Alstom
- Airbus
- BAE Systems
- Bombardier Aerospace
- Cox-Smith Consultants Ltd
- EADS Astrium
- EnginSoft UK
- Eurocopter
- Laser Cladding Technology Ltd.
- Lincoln
- Lockheed Martin UK
- MOOG Ltd
- Professionals World
- Santander
- Timet
- Tata Steel (Corus)
- Rolls-Royce
Funding bodies:
- EPSRC
- IMRC (Cranfield University)
- Industry
- EEDA
Background
Priv-Doz Dr-Ing Dipl-Inform Jörn Mehnen has a background in machining technology (PhD) and soft computing (MSc) from TU Dortmund, Germany. He studied computer science and mathematics and took his PhD in manufacturing.
In 1995 he began his research career at the Department of Machining Technology (ISF) at the University of Dortmund, Germany. There he obtained his PhD (Dr-Ing) and received admittance for teaching (venia legendi, Habilitation) in 2005 as a Privatdozent (Priv-Doz).
In 2007 he joined Cranfield University as a Senior Lecturer within the Manufacturing Department. He is also still Privatdozent (Priv-Doz) at TU Dortmund (Germany).
Selected research grants:
2011 -2013
FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IRSES, Customised Advisory Services for Energy-efficient manufacturing Systems, EU, FP7
2011 – 2016
Co-Investigator of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Through-life Engineering Services (Lead Prof Rajkumar Roy).
Financial cont.: ca £4.8m from EPSRC + £3.5m from Industry
2011
EEDA Innovation voucher projects “Power Tag” and “Professionals World”.
Financial cont.: £6k
2010 – 2013
Co-Investigator of Rolls Royce/TSB/EPSRC funded project ‘SILOET: Strategic Investment in Low Carbon Engine Technology: Maintenance cost prediction using component life prediction’ (Jointly with Prof Rajkumar Roy).
Financial cont.: £270K
2010 – 2011
Principal Investigator of Lockheed Martin funded project ‘Swarm Eye’.
2007 – 2012
Principal Investigator of IMRC project “RUAM: Ready to Use Additive Manufacturing”, (Jointly with 3 other academics).
35 industry partners
Financial cont.: ca £0.8m from EPSRC and £1.2m from Industry
Selected PhD supervision:
- Study the dependencies between degradation and manufacturing constraints and parameters for mechanical components (jointly with Prof Rajkumar Roy).
- Grinding of Additive Manufacturing Structures (jointly with Dr Ian Walton).
- An integrated approach for RUAM using thermo-mechanical models and optimised robot paths (jointly with Prof Stewart Williams).
- Mechanical Degradation Modelling for Service Cost Estimation of Aerospace Components, (jointly with Prof Rajkumar Roy).
- A Framework for Cost Reduction of a Global Distribution Network within Healthcare Diagnostics Industry (jointly with Dr Ashutosh Tiwari).
Selected publications
- Schmidburg, I., Pagger, H., Zsoldos R., Mehnen, J., Peham Ch., Lick, Th. F.
Movement associated reduction of spatial capacity of the equine cervical vertebral canal. The Veterinary Journal,
doi:10.1016/j.tvjl.2011.08.011, 2011 - Ding, J., Colegrove, P., Mehnen J., Ganguly S., Sequeira Almeida, P.M., Wang, F., and Williams, S.
Thermo-mechanical analysis of Wire and Arc Additive Layer Manufacturing process on large multi-layer parts,
Computational Materials Science, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2011.06.023 , Vol. 50, Issue 12, pp. 3315-3322, 2011 - S. Suardi, R. Roy, J. Mehnen, Y. T. Azene "Uncertainty based Evolutionary Optimisation", GECCO 2011, July 12–16, 2011, Pier Luca Lanzi (Ed.), pp. 87-88, Dublin, Ireland
- Fernandes, P., Roy, R., Mehnen, J. and Harrison, A. An Overview on Degradation Modelling for Service Cost Estimation, In: Functional Thinking for Value Creation,
Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 5-6, 2011,
J. Hesselbach and Ch. Herrmann (Eds.), 309-314, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19689-8_54 - Mehnen, J., Ding, J., Lockett, H.L. and Kazanas, P.
Design for Wire and Arc Additive Layer Manufacture, Proceedings of the 20th CIRP Design Conference,
Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France, Alain Bernard (Ed.), ISBN: 978-3-642-15972-5,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15973-2, 19th-21st April 2010, 2010, pp. 721-728, (best paper award) - Roy, R., Brissaud, D., Mehnen, J.: CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, guest editors, Elsevier, Vol. 4/2, 2010
- Gadi, M. & Do Lago, A. & Mehnen, J. (2010) "Data mining with skewed data" in "New Advances in Machine Learning"
- Azene, Y.T., Roy R., Farrugia D., Onisa, C., Mehnen J., Trautmann H.: Work roll cooling system design optimisation in presence of uncertainty and constrains, CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, Elsevier, Vol. 4/2 (2010), pp 290–298
- Mehnen, J.; Köppen, M.; Saad, A.; Tiwari, A. (Eds.) Applications of Soft Computing From Theory to Praxis Series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing , Vol. 58, 2009, XXXII, ISBN: 978-3-540-89618-0
- Trautmann, H. & Wagner, T. & Naujoks, B. & Preuss, M. & Mehnen, J. (2009) "Statistical Methods for Convergence Detection of Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms" , Evolutionary Computation, vol. 17, page 493-509
- Trautmann, H. & Mehnen, J. (2009) "Statistical Methods for Improving Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimisation" , International Journal Of Computational Intelligence, vol. 5, page 72-78
- Roy, R. & Azene, T. & Farrugia, D. & Onisa, C. & Mehnen, J. (2009) "Evolutionary Multi-objective Design Optimisation with Real Life Uncertainty and Constraints" , CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology, vol. 58, page 169-172
- Trautmann, H. & Mehnen, J. (2009) "Preference-based Pareto optimization in certain and noisy environments" , Engineering Optimization, vol. 41, page 23-38
- Roy, R. & Mehnen, J. (2008) "Dynamic Multi-objective Optimisation for Machining Gradient Materials" , CIRP Annals-Manufacturing Technology, vol. 57, page 429-432
- Mehnen, J. & Michelitsch, T. & Witt, C. (2007) "Collaborative Research centre 531: Computational intelligence - theory and practice" , Information Technology, vol. 49, page 49-57
- Mehnen, J. & Roy, R. (2008) "Technology Transfer: Academia to Industry" in "Evolutionary Computation in Practice"
