Narratives of Waste: an Exploration of material transformation through 3D printing (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Lambert, I. (2019, March). Narratives of Waste: an Exploration of material transformation through 3D printing. Presented at RTD2019 Method & Critique, Delft and Rotterdam

This practice-led workshop was aimed at exploring how Ocean Plastic 3D printing filament can be used to devise objects to make use of its particular material qualities and communicate the journey of the material from the initial object to remanufactu... Read More about Narratives of Waste: an Exploration of material transformation through 3D printing.

Remanufactured Furniture Experiments aiming to minimise material loss and raw material addition – practical workshop at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China, February 2019 (2019)
Physical Artefact
Kerlaff, P., & Cairns, A. Remanufactured Furniture Experiments aiming to minimise material loss and raw material addition – practical workshop at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China, February 2019. [Photographs of furniture outputs, data set, written comments]

Remanufactured Furniture Experiments aiming to minimise material loss and raw material addition – practical workshop at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China, February 2019 This project aimed to identify strategies for adaptation to i... Read More about Remanufactured Furniture Experiments aiming to minimise material loss and raw material addition – practical workshop at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China, February 2019.

A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model (2016)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2016). A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model. Knowledge and Process Management, 23(2), 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1501

Product knowledge emerges from day‐to‐day, ubiquitous interactions executed by engineers. Types of interaction and their associated influence on knowledge activities are often not perceptible, and therefore not captured in current industrial practice... Read More about A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model.

Current UK timber grading and engineered wood products. (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2016, February). Current UK timber grading and engineered wood products

Timber grading seminar - Some things you should know about how strength grading works and what is changing in the standards. (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Ridley-Ellis, D. (2016, February). Timber grading seminar - Some things you should know about how strength grading works and what is changing in the standards. Presented at Timber grading seminar

Presentations from the seminar on timber grading. "This grading seminar will give you a crash course in timber strength grading, what it is, how it works, and how it is changing. It aims to demystify timber grading, tackle some widely held misconc... Read More about Timber grading seminar - Some things you should know about how strength grading works and what is changing in the standards..

Advances in designing product-service systems (2015)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Roy, R., & Corney, J. R. (2015). Advances in designing product-service systems. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 95, 429-448

Product-Service Systems (PSS) have emerged as a class of hybrid business models that have evolved particular relevance to enterprises operating in a resource-efficient, circular economy (environments that places an emphasis on sustainable, collaborat... Read More about Advances in designing product-service systems.

Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers (2015)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V., Jagadeesan, A. P., Corney, J. R., Lynn, A., & Agrawal, A. (2016). Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers. International Journal of Production Research, 54(14), 4104-4125. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2015.1102355

Many industrial processes require the nesting of 2D profiles prior to the cutting, or stamping, of components from raw sheet material. Despite decades of sustained academic effort algorithmic solutions are still sub-optimal and produce results that c... Read More about Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers.

Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Roy, R., & Corney, J. (2014). Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers. In L. M. Camarinha-Matos, & H. Afsarmanesh (Eds.), Collaborative Systems for Smart Networked Environments (127-134). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44745-1_12

Laser system industry is a complex network entity that includes laser component manufacturer, laser manufacturer, system integrator, laser job shop, laser process developer and end product manufacturer. Currently this market segment is predominately... Read More about Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers.

Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Walls, S., Corney, J., & Vasantha, G. (2014). Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers. In F. Rehman, N. Woodfine, & R. Marasini (Eds.), Advance in Manufacturing Technology XXVIII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research

The potential of low cost, 3D printing to support distributed manufacture in remote, rural communities has been noted by several observers. However the economic practicality of such proposals has not yet been clearly established and although some ove... Read More about Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers.

Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Jagadeeshan, A., Lynn, A., Acur Bakir, N., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014). Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India. In F. Rehman, N. Woodfine, & R. Marasini (Eds.), Advance in Manufacturing Technology XXVIII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research

Many tasks involving production software that involve spatial reasoning can only produce "good" rather than optimum solutions. It is frequently possible for humans to improve on algorithmically generated solutions computed by CAD/CAM software. The th... Read More about Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India.

IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches (2013)
Book Chapter
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Hussain, R., Roy, R., & Erkoyuncu, J. A. (2013). IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches. In Y. Shimomura, & K. Kimita (Eds.), The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability (411-416). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32847-3_69

Although the merits of Industrial product-service systems (IPS2) have been widely reported in the literature, the methodologies currently used to design IPS2 are not yet mature in either academia or industry. The objective of this paper is to determi... Read More about IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches.

Influences of design tools on the original and redesign processes (2013)
Journal Article
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Chakrabarti, A., Rout, B. K., & Corney, J. (2014). Influences of design tools on the original and redesign processes. International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 2(1), 20-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650349.2013.839076

Concept generation plays a vital role in establishing a broader foundation in the design process to create novel products. In the globalized, collaborative, designing scenario, an unambiguous representation of captured ideas to explicate a designer’s... Read More about Influences of design tools on the original and redesign processes.

A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design (2013)
Journal Article
Gokula Vijaykumar, A. V., Komoto, H., Hussain, R., Roy, R., Tomiyama, T., Evans, S., …Williams, S. (2013). A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design. Journal of Remanufacturing, 3(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1186/2210-4690-3-8

Manufacturers aim to design product-service systems (PSS) which integrate services with products to attain sustained competitive advantage from a life cycle perspective. PSS design should be customer-adjusted solutions which are aligned to integrated... Read More about A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design.

Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis. (2012)
Working Paper
Pearson, M. Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis

A simple value chain is modeled by a contractor (dual operator) making an agreement with a customer (primal operator) to complete a project in a number of stages monitored within a certain agreed time scale. The customer defines the demand (D) for se... Read More about Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis..

Acoustic segregation and structural timber production. (2012)
Thesis
Searles, G. J. Acoustic segregation and structural timber production. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5291

Concerns about changes in the quality of the maturing British spruce resource (principally stiffness) have raised doubts about maintaining strength grading pass-rates. Acoustic (or stress wave) instruments provide a non-destructive measurement of sti... Read More about Acoustic segregation and structural timber production..

A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, R., Lockett, H., & Annamalai Vasantha, G. V. (2012). A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data. Computers in Industry, 63(4), 319-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2012.02.013

Both the Product-Service System (PSS) literature and industry express a need to close the design loop by using product-in-use data to inform PSS Conceptual Design. Nevertheless, how to actually accomplish this is largely unknown. This research makes... Read More about A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data.

Scotland's paper industry. (2009)
Book Chapter
Bromage, S., McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2009). Scotland's paper industry. In H. Williams (Ed.), 500 Years of printing in Scotland. Scottish Print Archival trust

From Gutenberg to Gates: a study of socio-technical change in the Edinburgh printing industry (2007)
Thesis
Parnell, M. P. From Gutenberg to Gates: a study of socio-technical change in the Edinburgh printing industry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3804

Printing has a long and illustrious history as a craft industry. This study explores the effects of technological change on skilled workers in the Edinburgh general printing industry. Three, initially distinct, areas of sociological theory concerni... Read More about From Gutenberg to Gates: a study of socio-technical change in the Edinburgh printing industry.

The development and production of a guide for noise control from laminated and wooden flooring. (2005)
Working Paper
Waters-Fuller, T. The development and production of a guide for noise control from laminated and wooden flooring

This document, produced by the Building Performance Centre at Napier University, was commissioned by Defra and the Devolved Administrations of the Scottish Executive, the National Assembly for Wales, and the Department of the Environment in Northern... Read More about The development and production of a guide for noise control from laminated and wooden flooring..

Countering design exclusion: an introduction to inclusive design (2004)
Book
Keates, S. L., & Clarkson, J. (2004). Countering design exclusion: an introduction to inclusive design. London: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0013-3

Inclusive design, universal design and universal access are long standing, familiar terms with clear and laudable goals. However, their teaching and industrial uptake has been very limited. Many products still exclude users unnecessarily for reasons... Read More about Countering design exclusion: an introduction to inclusive design.