Contact John Patsavellas
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 754589
- Email: John.Patsavellas@cranfield.ac.uk
- Twitter: @john_pats
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Areas of expertise
- Design, Strategy & Innovation
- Industrial Automation
- Manufacturing Systems
- Product and Service Design
- Smart Materials
- Sustainable Manufacturing
Background
John Patsavellas is a senior lecturer in manufacturing management in Cranfield University having joined the UK's most iconic postgraduate university following a career in the manufacturing industry spanning sectors as diverse as steel, food, paper products, pharma, fashion, building products and sanitaryware ceramics. He has been a boardroom director since 2004. John has an honours degree in mechanical engineering design from the University of Huddersfield, an MSc in manufacturing systems and management from the University of Bradford and an MBA from the University of Kingston. He has worked around the world, managing, buying, moving and building factories and deploying advanced technologies. His special interest and expertise lies in driving optimum efficiencies by the successful integration of people in the modern industrial reality, as well as designing the future aspects of sustainable productivity in high value manufacturing. John received the 2014 IMechE Manufacturing Excellence award for innovation in products and services. He has been the president of the European Resilient Flooring Manufacturers' Institute (ERFMI) in Brussels, an active member of the All-Party Parliamentary Manufacturing Group (APMG) and an industrial visiting fellow of the School of Engineering in the University of Hertfordshire. John is a member of the IET's Manufacturing Policy Panel and the IET's Production and Design Sector.
Current activities
Manufacturing leadership & strategy
Productivity improvement
Operations management & leadership
Sustainability
Supply Chain Management
Robotics & automation
Advanced materials applications
General Management & Leadership
Improving manufacturing operations
Behavioural economics and medicine
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Kaur R, Patsavellas J, Haddad Y & Salonitis K. (2024). The Concept of Carbon Accounting in Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chains. Energies, 17(1)
- Tang J, Haddad Y, Patsavellas J & Salonitis K. (2023). Multi-objective Reconfigurable Manufacturing System Scheduling Optimisation: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 56(2)
- de Olañeta J, Patsavellas J & Salonitis K. (2023). Modelling the operations of a circular economy fashion start-up. Procedia CIRP, 120
- Alduraywish Y, Patsavellas J & Salonitis K. (2022). Critical success factors for improving learning management systems diffusion in KSA HEIs: An ISM approach. Education and Information Technologies, 27(1)
- Patsavellas J, Kaur R & Salonitis K. (2021). Supply chain control towers: Technology push or market pull—An assessment tool. IET Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing, 3(3)
- Garcia-Garcia G, Coulthard G, Jagtap S, Afy-Shararah M, Patsavellas J, .... (2021). Business Process Re-Engineering to Digitalise Quality Control Checks for Reducing Physical Waste and Resource Use in a Food Company. Sustainability, 13(22)
- Okorie O, Subramoniam R, Charnley F, Patsavellas J, Widdifield D, .... (2020). Manufacturing in the Time of COVID-19: An Assessment of Barriers and Enablers. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 48(3)
- Puscasu O, Counsell N, Herfatmanesh MR, Peace R, Patsavellas J, .... (2018). Powering Lights with Piezoelectric Energy‐Harvesting Floors. Energy Technology, 6(5)
Conference Papers
- Sherif Z, Patsavellas J & Salonitis K. (2023). Printed Carbon Nanotube and Graphene Heaters for Drying Ceramics
- Litos L, Patsavellas J, Afy-Shararah M & Salonitis K. (2023). An investigation between the links of sustainable manufacturing practices and innovation
- Kaur R, Patsavellas J, Haddad Y & Salonitis K. (2022). Carbon accounting management in complex manufacturing supply chains: A structured framework approach
- Pimenidis E, Patsavellas J & Tonkin M. (2021). Cybersecurity, Privacy and Freedom Protection in the Connected World
- Saxena P, Murrell P, Sivarupan T, Patsavellas J, Salonitis K, .... (2021). Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on British Foundries
- Castillo ACD, Patsavellas J, Salonitis K & Emmanouilidis C. (2021). The productivity impact of the digitally connected 5 – layer stack in manufacturing enterprises
- Afy-Shararah M, Patsavellas J & Salonitis K. (2021). Modelling sources of operational noise in production systems
- Patsavellas J, Salonitis K, Koziol K, Zakrzewski L & Blackwood B. (2020). Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Radiant Heater Printed on a Cementitious Flooring Substrate: A Feasibility Study
- D’Souza R, Patsavellas J & Salonitis K. (2020). Automated assembly of Li-ion vehicle batteries: A feasibility study
- Patsavellas J & Salonitis K. (2019). The Carbon Footprint of Manufacturing Digitalization: critical literature review and future research agenda
- Litos L, Borzillo F, Patsavellas J, Cockhead D & Salonitis K. (2017). Management Tool Design for Eco-efficiency Improvements in Manufacturing – A Case Study
- Yi Y, Salonitis K, Tsoutsanis P, Litos L & Patsavelas J. (2017). Improving the Curing Cycle Time through the Numerical Modeling of air Flow in Industrial Continuous Convection Ovens
Books
- Alshalaan M, Almanei M, Afy-Shararah M, Patsavellas J & Salonitis K. (2023). Critical Factors for Enhancing Knowledge Sharing Through Social Media in KSA Engineering HEIs In Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering (44). IOS Press.
- Pimenidis E, Patsavellas J & Tonkin M. (2021). Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Managing a Secure and Sustainable Supply Chain In Cybersecurity, Privacy and Freedom Protection in the Connected World. Springer International Publishing.