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Professor Keith Ridgway OBE, FREng
Keith Ridgway is
the Professor of Design and Manufacture in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering and the Research Director of the
University
of
Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
with Boeing (AMRC). In January 2001 Professor Ridgway established the AMRC
to carry out research in manufacturing technologies directly related to the
aerospace industry. In addition to Boeing, the AMRC has a number of major
sponsors, including Messier Dowty, Rolls Royce, Smiths Industries, Parametric
Technology Corp, IBM/CATIA,
Cincinnati
, Starrag-Heckert, Mori-Seiki, Sandvik Tooling and Technicut Ltd. In March 2001
the AMRC was identified as a University Innovation Centre in the Government
White Paper “Opportunities for All in a World of Change” and awarded a grant
of £5.93 million to purchase ‘state of the art’ manufacturing research
facilities. This was followed by a grant of £2.7 million from the South
Yorkshire Objective 1 fund to build a new 1,200 m2 research
laboratory and support manufacturing technology research projects in
South Yorkshire
. Projects carried out on behalf of the industrial partners focus on machining
titanium and heat resistant super alloy components and include machine tool
dynamics, damping, cutting tool design, new cutting strategies. Projects include
consideration of micro-structural analysis including grain deformation, residual
stress and micro-hardness analysis, surface finish and degradation including
crack initiation and structural integrity of the finished component. Application
of the research developed has led to a step change in the machining capability
of many of the industrial sponsors and encouraged their on-going commitment and
support.
In addition to research on manufacturing technologies Ridgway has also worked on
the translation of theories from biological science into manufacturing
management, most notably the work on cladistics and evolutionary modelling with
McCarthy, and Baldwin. Professor Ridgway is actively involved in a wide range of
AMRC research projects, funded by the EPSRC, ESRC, EU framework 6, DTI and
industry. In June 2004 Patricia Hewitt announced a grant of £4.5 million to
support the development of the
University
of
Sheffield Composites
and Advanced Materials Technology Centre CAMTeC with Boeing. This will form
part of the National Composites Network and will be integrated with the AMRC to
form the Advanced Manufacturing Institute at the
University
of
Sheffield
. Professor Ridgway has 123 publications including 31 journals articles.
HONOURS
Awarded OBE in 2005 Birthday honours list
for services to UK Manufacturing Industry
Fellow of the Royal
Academy
of
Engineering
MEMBERSHIP
OF LEARNED SOCIETY
Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers.
Member of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects.
CURRENT APPOINTMENT
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Research
Director of
University
of
Sheffield
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing.
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April
2003-Present
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Leading
research at £25M research centre funded by major aerospace companies
including Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Smiths Aerospace and Messier-Dowty
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PREVIOUS
APPOINTMENTS
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Professor
of Design and Manufacture and Director of the Ibberson Technology Transfer
Centre, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University
of
Sheffield
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May
1994 - April 2003
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Responsible
for undergraduate teaching in design and manufacture. Established Teaching
Company Schemes and technology transfer initiatives to local SMEs.
developed courses in Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Engineering
Management.
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Senior
Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University
of
Sheffield
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May
1993 - May 1994
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Responsible
for undergraduate teaching in design and manufacture. Established Teaching
Company Schemes and developed courses in Manufacturing Systems
Engineering, Engineering Management.
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Lecturer,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University
of
Sheffield
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Jan
1988 - May 1993
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Responsible
for undergraduate teaching in design and manufacture. Established Teaching
Company Schemes and developed courses in Manufacturing Systems
Engineering, Engineering Management and Design.
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Principal
Lecturer; Department of Mechanical and Computer Aided Engineering, North
Staffordshire Polytechnic.
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Oct
1986 - Jan 1988
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Responsible
for leading developments in teaching and research in Manufacturing Systems
including introduction of Teaching Company Schemes and M.Sc. in CIM.
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Senior Lecturer, Department of
Mechanical and Computer Aided Engineering, North Staffordshire
Polytechnic.
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Oct
1982 - Oct 1985
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Responsible
for teaching undergraduate courses in design, manufacture and thermofluids.
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Design
Consultant, Watson Engineering Consultants, Bramhall,
Cheshire
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Jan
1982 - Oct 1982
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Responsible
for design of decay heat removal system on the commercial fast breeder
reactor (CDFR) and trouble shooting on Dounray Power Station.
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Research
Assistant, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Manchester
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July
1980 - Jan 1982
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Responsible
for the design of a system to arrest and anchor large ships drifting
disabled. Research post funded by Shell International Marine following the
Amoco Cadiz incident.
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Design
Engineer, Kennedy and Donkin, Consulting Engineers,
Manchester
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Jan
1975 - July 1980
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Responsible
for design and approval of power plant and equipment. Produced the
specification for Ras Katenib Power Station and led tender assessment team
to
Sanaa
,
Yemen
Arab Republic. Responsible for trouble shooting on power plant in
Northern Ireland
and
Venezuela
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Production Engineer, Mather and Platt
Ltd, Park Works,
Manchester
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Sept
1974 - Jan 1975
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Responsible
for production planning and programming NC machine tools.
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Special Apprentice, Mather and Platt
Ltd, Park Works,
Manchester
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Sept
1973 - Sept 1974
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Training
to meet the requirements of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
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CURRENT
RESEARCH
Advanced Manufacturing Technology
The
University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing has
been established with the Support of the DTI and leading companies including
Rolls-Royce, Smiths Aerospace, Messier-Dowty, PTC, IBM/CATIA, Delcam, Sandvik
Tooling, Technicut Ltd, Hamble Aerostructures, Callender Aeropart, Johnson and
Allen, Cincinnati, Starrag Heckert, Mori Seiki, Mutotoya, Alcoa and Timet The
aim of the Centre is to reduce the cost of manufacturing aerospace components
through the introduction of improved manufacturing processes.
Complexity
theory in design and manufacture
A previously successful Ph.D has
stimulated work in the use of biological classification systems to model and
predict the behaviour of manufacturing companies and systems. This work has now
been extended, with support from the EPSRC and ESRC, to examine the use of
complexity theory in design and manufacture and to model the evolution of the
aerospace industry.
CURRENT
RESEARCH GRANTS
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HEIF:
Centre of Excellence in Customised Assembly
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£2,000,000
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DTI
Technology Programme: Processing
of advanced nickel alloys for critical aerospace applications (PANACEA)
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£147,000
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DTI
Technology Programme: Integrated wing, design and test of composite
undercarriage
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£1,200,000
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EU
FP6: Aligning, holding and Fixing Large and Difficult to Handle Components
(AFFIX). This is a circa €12M
EU supported Large Integrated Project
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£900,000
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EPSRC:
Application of Photogrammetry and Optical Scanning in Manufacturing
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£253,920
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EPSRC:
Process Damping in Milling Theory, Experiment and Practical Solutions
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£284,744
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Yorks
Forward and Obj 1: Composites and Advanced Materials Technology Centre (CAMTeC)
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£4,500,000
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Yorks
Forward and Obj 1: Advanced Near Net Manufacturing Centre
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£2,200,000
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DTI:
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing
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£5,930,000
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South Yorks
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1: Advanced Manufacturing
Research Centre with Boeing
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£2,700,000
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.SELECTION
OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS
1.
Leseure
M., McCarthy I. P., Ridgway K. and Fieller N., (1997) Building Manufacturing
Cladograms, International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 13, No 3
Interscience Enterprises, pp 269 -
286, ISBN 0267-5730, Geneva.
2.
Lowe.
A.J. & Ridgway, K., The University of Sheffield's Technical Audit Programme,
Industry and Higher Education, Vol 13, No 5, ISSN 0950-4222, IP Publishing 1999.
3.
Al-Ahmari
A.M.A. and Ridgway K. (1999) An integrated modelling method to support
manufacturing systems analysis and design, Computers in Industry, Vol 38 pp
225-238 Elsevier Science.
4.
McCarthy
I. P., Ridgway K., Leseure M., and Fieller N.,(2000), Organisational; Diversity,
evolution and cladistic classifications, The International Journal of Management
Science, OMEGA 28, pp77 –95, Elsevier Science.
5.
McCarthy
I. P. and Ridgway K., (2000), Cladistics: A Toxonomy for Manufacturing
Evolution, The International Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management –
Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol 11 No 1 2000, ISSN 0957-6061,
MCB
University
Press.
6.
Zhao
Y., Ridgway K., Al-Ahmari A.M.A., (2002), Integration of CAD and a cutting tool
selection system, Computers and Industrial Engineering vol 42 Issue 1 pp 17-34),
Elsevier Science.
7.
Baldwin,
J. S., Murray, R., Winder, B. and Ridgway, K. (2004). A non-equilibrium
thermodynamic model of industrial development: Analogy or homology? Journal of Cleaner Production 12(8-10): 841-853.
8.
Baldwin,
J. S., Ridgway, K., Winder, B. and Murray, R. (2004).
Modelling industrial ecosystems and the 'problem' of evolution. Progress
in Industrial Ecology 1(1-3): 39-60.
9.
Baldwin,
J. S., Lopez, A. M., Allen, P. M., Ridgway, K. and Winder, B. (2004). Diverse
and de-centralised decision-making. Conference
on Diversity. Università degli Studi di Bologna,
Bologna
,
Italy
. 12-13th July.
10.
Baldwin,
J. S., Lopez, A. M., Allen, P. M.,
Ridgway, K. and Winder, B. (2004). Diversity in management decision-making and
the effects on manufacturing evolution. Conference
on Organiations, Innovation and
Complexity: New Perspectives on the Knowledge Economy,
University of Manchester
,
UK
, 9-10th September
11.
Sharman
A. R. C., Hughes J.
L. and Ridgway K. (2003) ‘Workpiece surface integrity when turning
Inconel 718ä
nickel based superalloy’ Accepted for publication in the Journal of
Manufacturing Science,
New York
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Hughes J. I., Sharman A. R. C. and Ridgway K. "The effect of tool
edge preparation on tool life and workpiece surface integrity", Proceedings
of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Vol 218, Part B: Journal of
Engineering Manufacture, (2004), pp1113 - 1123.
13.
Turner
M. S., Merdol A., Altintas Y. and Ridgway K. (2006) 'Modelling of the stability
of variable helix end mills' proceedings of CIRP 2nd International Conference on
High Performance Machining , Vancouver, June 2006.
14.
Geng Z., Turner M. S. and Ridgway K. (2006) 'Linear improvement of
machining stability lobes and application in milling process prediction'.
Accepted for publication in IMechE - Part B: Journal of Engineering manufacture.
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