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Institution: Cranfield University
Focus Area: Development of tools, methods, materials, technology and innovative ways of doing business across the disciplines of design, engineering, environmental science and management.
Expertise: CPD Circular EconomyCircular EconomyA systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature. courses, Aerospace, Defence and Security, Energy and Power, Environment and Agrifood, Water, Manufacturing, Transport Systems Management
Key projects:
Cranfield is committed to developing a truly integrated industry-driven circular economy research and teaching agenda across the university, which is capable of responding to the challenges of an emerging new economy.
Integration of circular economy thinking within postgraduate design, technology and management programmes, with academic leads in each case.
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A Network in Consumer Goods, Big Data and Re-Distributed Manufacturing to develop an active and engaged community of academics, industrial practitioners, policy makers and end users. The programme aims to identify, test and evaluate a multi-disciplinary vision and research agenda associated with the application of big data in the transition towards a re-distributed manufacturing model for consumer goods. Find out more here.
CIRCUIT
International Training Network on CE Business Models and PSS for 15 PhD’s from 5 universities to develop radically new business models for circularity. Cranfield are specifically focussing on Reverse LogisticsReverse LogisticsSupply chains dedicated to the reverse flow of products and materials for the purpose of maintenance, repair, reuse, refurbishment, remanufacture, recycling, or regenerating natural systems. in Circular Economy and Maximising the ‘retained values’ of servitised products.
Digital Intelligence to Enable a Circular Economy
How data, acquired through the latest advances in digital technologies such as the fourth Industrial Revolution (I4.0) and the Internet of Things (IoT), can provide Digital Intelligence to shape decisions about the manufacture and utilisation of automotive components for accelerating the implementation of more circular approaches in UK manufacturing. EPSRC Network Plus. Industrial Systems in the Digital Age.
