Industrial engineering. Management engineering
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Supply chain resilience: more comprehensive evidence on the supply chain relationships between companies in the UK and those in other countries, as well as evidence on the potential impact of supply chain restrictions.
- How are decisions on investment and location of manufacturing facilities affected by the broader commercial environment and, in particular, price regulation and other cost control measures?
- What evidence is needed about the use of new technologies - e.g. new and emerging energy technologies, use of novel materials, new manufacturing processes, etc. - to develop an appropriate, effective strategy for their better regulation, enabling their rapid and safe introduction?
- Health resilience: More comprehensive data on capacity and capabilities for companies in the sector to better identify areas of concern with respect to supply vulnerabilities.
- Manufacturing Innovation: We would like to have a more comprehensive forward look for new drugs, devices, or other therapeutics to identify potential innovations faster.
- Evidence on the impact of the planning system on the cost of establishing manufacturing and R&D activity.
- We would like to understand the impact of operational costs (such as energy or materials along the supply chain) on the decision to locate and/or increase investment activity in the UK.
- Energy and power – Defence is interested in understanding how advances in energy generation and storage and smart materials may promote more efficient energy consumption, reduce logistic footprint, soldier burden and support high power future sensing and weapons systems.
- We would further like to understand whether there is any evidence for co-location of R&D and manufacturing activity and whether this depends on the stage of the R&D conducted on site.
- How can we effectively evaluate countries’ relative technology readiness levels (TRL), by technical area, sector and overall strategy? To what extent does the commercial, regulatory and legal environment impact on TRLs? To what extent can market access restrictions to some sectors have wider impacts on trade within other sectors?
- How can designers, consultants and manufacturers contribute to incorporating improvements in occupational health and safety when considering design of new technologies?
- More detailed and reliable data on all the relevant indicators included in our publication.
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- Detailed company data on tangible and intangible assets, as well as use of materials, to produce estimates of both labour productivity and total factor productivity.
- What is the UK’s long-term requirement for natural resources from global markets? Which resources are exposed to production/supply risks owing to geopolitical, macro-economic, pandemic, or environment factors and what are the likely impacts of change to the UK economy?
- How do we encourage the design of longer lasting and easily repairable consumer items?
- Clothing and equipment for police and first responders with maximum strength, lightness, wearability and protection.
- How can any key long-term challenges and threats to the current ageing asset base be identified?
- How can we assess how much value is created in each stage of a global supply chain and how do “smile curves” vary across products and sectors? For example, how can we estimate the value of intellectual property within global supply chains?
- Improving the use and design of extended producer responsibility schemes in the UK that could yield significant benefits
- How can the Trade in Value Added (TiVA) dataset inform our understanding about regional or global supply chains, including re-manufactured goods?
- Materials and structures – Understanding material selection and performance, ageing, shock and impact resistance, corrosion, design and lifeing aimed towards reducing the long term cost of military equipment across a range of platforms, weapons and application areas. How do we pull through promising materials quickly and at low enough cost to enable early adoption?