Charalampos Makatsoris - Academia.edu (original) (raw)

Papers by Charalampos Makatsoris

Proceedings of the 12th …, 2008

Abstract:-Information Systems Development is a process that needs not only technical capabilities... more Abstract:-Information Systems Development is a process that needs not only technical capabilities but management capabilities as well. Managing successfully the development process creates a number of qualitative and quantitative benefits to all being involved ( ...

Preference marketplace is digital crowdsourcing tool which employs game mechanics to engage consu... more Preference marketplace is digital crowdsourcing tool which employs game mechanics to engage consumers in order to understand their requirements and prioritise the most required product attributes and concepts. A number of case study including food and beverage products has been employed to test the performance of the platform. This platform is web application under development by the Harris Makatsoris research group. Workshops were organised by the Harris Makatsoris research group to collect data at Cranfield University.

Knowledge Management became the focus of scientific study during the second half of the 20th cent... more Knowledge Management became the focus of scientific study during the second half of the 20th century. Unstructured data in project management documents hold critical and time-based information about how the project is going-on. However, retrieving useful information from this data is still challenging task. The proposed approach presents a Naïve Bayes text mining approach to identify early warnings of failure in a project lifecycle in advance. The paper focused on a construction industry project to analyse the effectiveness of this approach. Hence, the primary focus of this research was to identify the lack of various project management aspects. The implemented system scanned critical management documents including Minutes of meeting to identify these so-called early warnings. The technique was evaluated against unseen Meeting Minutes PDF files labelled via expert feedback. The system reported 80.43% of the identified early warnings to be lack of onsite materials followed by lack of keen commitment to project milestones and lack of staff skills and training.

Production Planning & Control, May 15, 2019

Redistributed Manufacturing-Challenges for Operations Management Recent advances in small-scale l... more Redistributed Manufacturing-Challenges for Operations Management Recent advances in small-scale local production technologies and materials sciences, combined with the power of digital design and analysis methods, have generated new opportunities for product innovators to experiment with rapid prototyping and commercialisation of highly customised products that serve existing markets or create new niches. These developments involve modest investments in local production equipment and infrastructure with low 'break even' points and engineer-to-order/make-to-order production runs. This represents a transformation of manufacturing and will challenge traditional operations management thinking in fundamental ways.

Production Planning & Control, Apr 1, 2004

... From the 20 case studies in companies, he found that the small and medium-sized enterprise (S... more ... From the 20 case studies in companies, he found that the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) did not often have resources or ... 1. Demand-driven functionality: in contrast to traditional batch-based processes, the system takes advantage of the event-driven design of the ...

IGI Global eBooks, May 24, 2011

A process of turbulent change is taking place in which companies shape up to deal with the unremi... more A process of turbulent change is taking place in which companies shape up to deal with the unremitting global competition for which there is an uncertain outcome. Businesses have to look at the wider horizons and dynamics of both their supply chains and markets to discover new ways of working with both customers and suppliers to grow and remain viable. The diverse industrial, commercial and operational practices and processes need to be remolded and target the collaborative aspects of relationships to the advantage of company performance and creation of new opportunities. This chapter outlines some of the constraining forces and suggests the parameters in which a business strategy and a course of action can be devised as a pathway to the future.

holds the chair professorship in Manufacturing Systems at Brunel University. His current research... more holds the chair professorship in Manufacturing Systems at Brunel University. His current research interests focus on micro manufacturing, design of precision machines and instruments, and digital manufacturing and enterprise technologies. Professor Cheng has published over 160 papers in learned international journals and referred conferences, authored/edited 5 books and contributed 6 book chapters. Professor Cheng is a fellow of the IET and a member of the IMechE and Euspen. He is the head of the Advanced Manufacturing and Enterprise Engineering (AMEE) Department which incldes 9 academics and over 30 research assistants and PhD students. The department is currently working on a number of research projects funded by the EPSRC, EU Programs, KTP Programs, DTI, and the industry. Professor Cheng is the European editor of the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture.

Studies in computational intelligence, 2016

The chapter was inadvertently published without including the updates in the affiliations, a chan... more The chapter was inadvertently published without including the updates in the affiliations, a change in the corresponding author's name from Harris Makatsoris to Prof. Charalampos Makatsoris and contact, also some more additional corrections within the chapter. The original chapter has been updated with the changes.

This paper analyses the case for transforming deployed medical care through innovations in advanc... more This paper analyses the case for transforming deployed medical care through innovations in advanced manufacturing. Early-stage findings present expert views based on a cross-disciplinary roadmapping workshop, designed to steer requirements and identify desirable applications across a range of medical manufacturing engineering disciplines. This paper proposes how the adoption of Redistributed Manufacturing (RDM) has the potential to transform operational patient care pathways and supply chains in the context of military and emergency medicine. This encompasses the use of technologies such as additive manufacturing, bioprinting and other distributed approaches. This work is part of a national UK research programme and sets out the foundations for a position paper to guide future research and investment in both academia and practice.

The Directed Assembly Network, an EPSRC Grand Challenge Network, set out in 2010 to build a wide-... more The Directed Assembly Network, an EPSRC Grand Challenge Network, set out in 2010 to build a wide-reaching community of scientists, engineers and industrial members that includes: chemists, biologists, physicists, chemical engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists, to name but a few.<br>This Roadmap has been constructed by the Network community over years of consultations and continuous engagement through: themed meetings, sandpits, Network awards (proof of concept projects) and strategic meetings. In 2010, the Network was tasked to look 20-40 years into the future, and to capture, short, medium and long term goals. Over the 6 years since its inception the Network has grown to over 1,000 members and hosts several highly acclaimed meetings each year. <br>The vision of the Network is to be able to control the assembly of matter with sufficient certainty and precision to allow the preparation of materials and molecular assemblies, with far more sophisticated and tuneable properties and functions, than are accessible in materials synthesised using current methods.

This feasibility study was one of five feasibility studies on re-distributed manufacture, consume... more This feasibility study was one of five feasibility studies on re-distributed manufacture, consumer goods and big data. The study looked mainly into: How could we engage users in NPD in future re-distributed models of sustainable production and consumption? To answer this question, the study mapped the different product-people interactions to identify the challenges and opportunities for user engagement in design and manufacture, to further investigate their application in order to bridge the gap between users, companies and the products that they produce. To further analyse these opportunities, two different product-people interactions were delved into, to understand how new forms of engaging people across the life cycle can achieve a more localised and responsive structures of manufacturing and product adoption. The results of these investigations helped to envision four contrasting scenarios of BaU, and generate conceptual business models and touchpoints to support these novel sys...

Procedia Manufacturing, 2018

If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination... more If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections.

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 2018

The concept of smart manufacturing has become an important issue in the manufacturing industry si... more The concept of smart manufacturing has become an important issue in the manufacturing industry since the start of the twenty-first century in terms of time and production cost. In addition to high production quality, a quick response could determine the success or failure of many companies and factories. One the most effective concepts for achieving a smart manufacturing industry is the use of computer-aided process planning (CAPP) techniques. Computer-aided process planning refers to key technology that connects the computer-aided design (CAD) and the computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) processes. Researchers have used many approaches as an interface between CAD and CAPP systems. In this field of research, a lot of effort has been spent to take CAPP systems to the next level in the form of automatic computer-aided process planning (ACAPP). This is to provide complete information about the product, in a way that is automated, fast, and accurate. Moreover, automatic feature recognition (AFR) techniques are considered one of the most important tasks to create an ACAPP system. This article presents a comprehensive survey about two main aspects: the degree of automation in each required input and expected output of computer-aided process planning systems as well as the benefits and the limitations of the different automatic feature recognition techniques. The aim is to demonstrate the missing aspects in smart ACAPP generation, the limitations of current systems in recognising new features, and justifying the process of selection.

2017 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE), Jul 1, 2017

Understanding of consumer preferences and perceptions is a vital challenge for the food and bever... more Understanding of consumer preferences and perceptions is a vital challenge for the food and beverage industry. Food and beverage product development is a very complex process that deals with highly uncertain factors, including consumer perceptions and manufacturing complexity. Sensory evaluation is widely used in the food industry for product design and defining market segments. Here, we develop a two-step approach to minimize uncertainty in the food and beverage product development, including consumers as cocreators. First, we develop interval-valued questionnaires to capture sensory perceptions of consumers for the corresponding sensory attributes. The data captured is modelled with fuzzy sets in order to then facilitate the design of new consumer-tailored products. Then, we demonstrate the real-world manufacture of a personalized beverage product with a continuous food formulation system. Finally, we highlight consumers` perceptions for the corresponding sensory attributes and their fuzzy set generated agreement models to capture product acceptance for the formulated and commercial orange juice drinks, and consequently to establish that continuous beverage formulator is capable of making similar commercial products for individuals.

This paper investigates if sensory perceptions of orange drinks (e.g., acidity, thickness, wateri... more This paper investigates if sensory perceptions of orange drinks (e.g., acidity, thickness, wateriness) can be linked to physical measurements (e.g., pH, particle size, density). Using this information, manufactured drinks can be tailored according to consumer' desires by, for example, the consumer providing a sensory description of their preferred drink. Sensory perceptions of different juices are collected in a survey and used to determine 1) if consumers can distinguish between different drinks using the provided sensory descriptors, and 2) if the perceptions match to physical measurements of the drinks. Results show that most of the given sensory descriptors are useful in describing differences in orange drinks. Additionally, the perceived wateriness and thickness of the drinks can be predicted from measurements. However, the perceived acidity could not be reliably predicted. The results show that personally tailored orange beverages can be manufactured according to some of t...

Paper published in the proceedings of the 20th international conference in this series organised ... more Paper published in the proceedings of the 20th international conference in this series organised by the Centre for Sustainable Design, and held at UCA Epsom, UK, 9-10 November 2015.

Human Systems Management, 1997

A paper describes the underlying forces which drive change in manufacturing enterprises and suppl... more A paper describes the underlying forces which drive change in manufacturing enterprises and supply chains. It sets out the complexities in modern capitalism and global economics and illustrates the trade-offs that can be made. IT systems which are required to assist improvements to both customer service and enterprise manufacturing performance are explained, alluding to the special case for the semiconductor industry. Arguments are presented showing how the new tools being developed with the ESPRIT project 20544, X-CITTIC, will satisfy the control needs for a virtual enterprise. This paper describes the underlying forces which drive change in manufacturing enterprises and supply chains. It sets out the complexities in modem capitalism and global economics and illustrates the trade-offs that can be made. IT systems which are required to assist improvements to both customer service and enterprise manufacturing performance are explained alluding to the special case for the semiconductor industry. Finally it shows how the new tools being developed with the ESPRIT project 20544, XCITTIC, will satisfy the control needs for a virtual enterprise.