Design information management
The Design information management research team within the Centre for Decision Engineering leads both fundamental and applied research and development, training, and commercial contracts on ‘Design information management’ for the aerospace, automotive, defence equipment and domestic product manufacturing industries. Design information management at Cranfield addresses all product related issues ranging from customer requirements and enterprise resource management, to product configuration, design optimisation, costing, manufacturing planning, design and manufacturing knowledge management, business process modelling and quality improvement across the product lifecycle. The research team has extensive expertise and experiences in knowledge management and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support new product development.
Research & Development
The Centre has extensive research experience in design information management in multiple sectors:
- product lifecycle management
- cost engineering
- data management
- intelligent information systems
- enterprise computing
- collaborative engineering.
Education
The industry-focused Masters programme is a one-year full-time or two-year part-time MSc/MTech/PgDip/PgCert in IT for Product Engineering that aims to provide students with state of the art technologies and management skills needed by today’s competitive business environment.
