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  • Manufacturing pitch and polyethylene blends-based fibres as potential carbon fibre precursors 
    Aldosari, Salem Mohammed; Khan, Muhammad A.; Rahatekar, Sameer S. (MDPI, 2021-04-29)
    The advantage of mesophase pitch-based carbon fibres is their high modulus, but pitch-based carbon fibres and precursors are very brittle. This paper reports the development of a unique manufacturing method using a blend ...
  • Manufacturing standards of performance for success 
    Sweeney, Mike T.; Szwejczewski, Marek (Cranfield School of Management, 1995)
    This paper details the findings of a study of the manufacturing performances and practices of 140 engineering companies in the UK. From this study, significant differences in the manufacturing competitiveness of these firms ...
  • Manufacturing strategy and perfomance:A study of the UK engineering industry 
    Sweeney, Mike T.; Szwejczewski, Marek (Cranfield School of Management, 1995)
    This paper details the findings of a search for manufacturing "strategic groups" in the engineering industry, that is a set of firms competing within an industry on the basis of similar combinations of business scope and ...
  • Manufacturing System Lean Improvement Design Using Discrete Event Simulation 
    Salonitis, Konstantinos; Omogbai, Oleghe (Elsevier, 2017-01-02)
    Lean manufacturing (LM) has been used widely in the past for the continuous improvement of existing production systems. A Lean Assessment Tool (LAT) is used for assessing the overall performance of lean practices within a ...
  • Manufacturing systems simulation using the principles of system dy 
    Oyarbide Zubillaga, A. (Cranfield University, 2003-11)
    Manufacturing is the largest single contributor to the global economy. The evolution of consumer demands has pressurised companies into producing a larger variety of products, with improved specifications, reduced costs, ...
  • Manufacturing techniques using dycril 
    Morrison, W. (College of Aeronautics, 1967)
    Fluidic elements are manufactured in various ways such as injection moulding, epoxy casting and from photo-sensitive ceramic and plastics. Most of the initial work on elements has been carried out using Dycril because ...
  • Manufacturing technology acquisition 
    Mallon, Michael John (Cranfield University, 2002-08)
    This thesis concerns the acquisition of newly developed production equipment in factories. Types of Manufacturing Technology Acquisition (MTA) can range from in-house development through to outright purchase from a ...
  • Manufacturing uncertainty: How reproducible is the depth of cut during turning of OFHC copper? 
    Zhao, Junguo; Giusca, Claudiu; Goel, Saurav (EUSPEN, 2018-06)
    Single point diamond turning (SPDT) used for micromachining has emerged as an indispensable and high-volume production manufacturing process for shaping and finishing various materials. As a preliminary testbed study, ...
  • Manufacturing-led competitiveness : use maths not myths 
    Sweeney, Mike T. (1991)
  • Map-adaptive multimodal trajectory prediction using hierarchical graph neural networks 
    Mo, Xiaoyu; Xing, Yang; Liu, Haochen; Lv, Chen (IEEE, 2023-04-26)
    Predicting the multimodal future motions of neighboring agents is essential for an autonomous vehicle to navigate complex scenarios. It is challenging as the motion of an agent is affected by the complex interaction among ...
  • MapOptics: A light-weight, cross-platform visualisation tool for optical mapping alignment 
    Burgin, Josephine; Molitor, Corentin; Mohareb, Fady R. (Oxford University Press, 2018-12-07)
    Bionano optical mapping is a technology that can assist in the final stages of genome assembly by lengthening and ordering scaffolds in a draft assembly by aligning the assembly to a genomic map. However, currently, tools ...
  • Mapping agricultural land in Afghanistan’s opium provinces using a generalised deep learning model and medium resolution satellite imagery 
    Simms, Daniel M.; Hamer, Alex M.; Zeiler, Irmgard; Vita, Lorenzo; Waine, Toby W. (MDPI, 2023-09-26)
    Understanding the relationship between land use and opium production is critical for monitoring the dynamics of poppy cultivation and developing an effective counter narcotics policy in Afghanistan. However, mapping ...
  • Mapping agricultural land in support of opium monitoring in Afghanistan with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). 
    Hamer, Alex Matthew (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2021-12)
    This work investigates the use of advanced image classification techniques for improving the accuracy and efficiency in determining agricultural areas from satellite images. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ...
  • Mapping an archaeological site: Interpreting portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) soil analysis at Boroughgate, Skelton, UK 
    Williams, Rhys; Errickson, David; Taylor, Gillian (Elsevier, 2021-07-14)
    Integrating chemical soil analysis with visual inspection of an archaeological excavation may enhance our knowledge of anthropogenic activities from past populations. Elemental distribution of excavated soil from a medieval ...
  • Mapping espoused organizational values 
    Bourne, Humphrey; Jenkins, Mark; Parry, Emma (Springer, 2017-11-17)
    This paper develops an inventory and conceptual map of espoused organizational values. We suggest that espoused values are fundamentally different to other value forms as they are collective value statements that need to ...
  • Mapping food supply chains for UK disadvantaged communities: a focus on Plymouth 
    Bourlakis, Michael; Sawyerr, Emmanuel; Pettinger, Clare (The Decision Sciences Institute, 2022-11-21)
    Regardless of many efforts by the government and people of the United Kingdom to address food insecurity and poverty, food inequalities in the country continue to worsen. Having identified the limited research on the role ...
  • Mapping forest cover and forest cover change with airborne S-band radar 
    Ningthoujam, R. K.; Tansey, K.; Balzter, H.; Morrison, K.; Johnson, S. C. M.; Gerard, F.; George, C.; Burbidge, G; Doody, S.; Veck, Nick; Llewellyn, G. M.; Blythe, T. (2016-07-08)
    Assessments of forest cover, forest carbon stocks and carbon emissions from deforestation and degradation are increasingly important components of sustainable resource management, for combating biodiversity loss and in ...
  • The mapping of landscapes, geology and soils of Bedfordshire & Cambridgeshire 
    Farewell, Timothy S.; Friend, Peter; Whiteley, Martin; Zawadzka, Joanna (2011-12-08)
    Landscapes and their component landforms have formed during the long-term geological history of an area, and may have been influenced by many factors. These include, a) the materials present just below the Earth's surface, ...
  • Mapping of the circular economy implementation challenges in the fashion industry: a fuzzy‑TISM analysis 
    Abdelmeguid, Aya; Afy-Shararah, Mohamed; Salonitis, Konstantinos (Springer, 2023-08-26)
    The fashion industry creates a large amount of pollution, making it one of the least environmentally friendly industries in the world with an ever-growing adoption of the linear fashion system “take-make-dispose” that ...
  • Mapping peat thickness and carbon stocks of the central Congo Basin using field data 
    Crezee , Bart; Dargie, Greta C.; Ewango, Corneille E. N.; Mitchard , Edward T. A.; Emba B, Ovide; Kanyama T, Joseph; Bola, Pierre; Ndjango, Jean-Bosco N.; Girkin, Nicholas T.; Bocko, Yannick E.; Ifo, Suspense A.; Hubau , Wannes; Seidensticker , Dirk; Batumike, Rodrigue; Imani , Gérard; Cuní-Sanchez, Aida; Kiahtipes , Christopher A.; Lebamba, Judicaël; Wotzka, Hans-Peter; Bean, Hollie; Baker , Timothy R.; Baird , Andy J.; Boom , Arnoud; Morris , Paul J.; Page, Susan E.; Lawson, Ian T.; Lewis , Simon L. (Springer Nature, 2022-07-21)
    The world’s largest tropical peatland complex is found in the central Congo Basin. However, there is a lack of in situ measurements to understand the peatland’s distribution and the amount of carbon stored in it. So far, ...