centre themes
Service systems

• The development of on-demand intelligent product lifecycle service systems;

Effective specification, design and creation of the complete service system, including:

• Service Foundations (e.g., dynamically reconfigurable architectures, data and process integration and sematic enhanced service discovery);

• Service Composition (e.g. composability analyses, dynamic and adaptive processes, quality of service compositions, business driven compositions);

• Service Management and Monitoring (e.g. self: configuring, adapting, optimising etc.)

• Service Design and Development (e.g. engineering of business services, versioning and adaptivity, governance across supply chains);

• Understanding service and lifecycle requirements with technological infrastructures to support integration and co-operation of components and services.
• Optimisation of the services to enable improved efficiency across the product lifecycle, entailing better resource utilisation, increased productivity and reusability, improved product quality and reliability and maintainability, prolonged service life, and decreased costs.

exemplars of PhD projects with a focus in this area included:

• Hazel Carlin co-sponsored by HSSMI and the London Electric Vehicle Co. "Using Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to support end-to-end visibility of a supply chain"
• Nelson de Souza Campos co-sponsored by ARM Holdings "Framework for efficient Image Processing algorithm development in conjunction with rapid prototyping on FPGA"
• Mohamed Taher Alrefaie co-sponsored by BMW "Driver State Modelling in Partially Automated Driving Cars"
• Melanie Zimmer co-sponsored by HSSMI "Multi-agent negotiation strategies for dynamic energy reduction in manufacturing"
• Ross Dickie co-sponsored by MacTaggart Scott "Fusion Prognostics for Predicting the Remaining Useful Life of Maritime Assets"