Manufacturing Systems Centre
Cranfield's Manufacturing Systems Centre's mission is: To improve the practice of competitive manufacture leading to improved business performance.
Cranfield's Manufacturing Systems Centre is one of the UK's strongest research and teaching groups in this field. The Centre supports in the region of 100 postgraduate students. Our students are registered on a range of Masters courses, including the prestigious Operations Excellence MSc which was established in partnership with Rolls-Royce and in collaboration with the University of Cambridge. We also have a highly active community of students undertaking research programmes in the Centre. Manufacturing at Cranfield is concerned with developing sustainable solutions to real-world industry problems. We do this by adopting a systems approach to identifying and tackling root causes in an evidence based manner.
The Centre's academic staff specialise in manufacturing operations strategy, manufacturing systems, innovation, design and modelling, supply chain and manufacturing management, computer simulation techniques, electronic task support and informatics. We work closely with colleagues from other schools and departments. This allows the Manufacturing Systems Centre to address a broad range of business problems in competitive manufacturing operations and services.
The Manufacturing Systems Centre has a constant track record of EPSRC support. It is internationally renowned for its publication record. The Centre is the principal contributor to the Cranfield Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, the 2nd largest in the UK. The Centre benefits from extensive industrial support which underpins student project and research work.
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