On the 5th May the RECODE Network team traveled to Taichung, Taiwan for the 50th CIRP Manufacturing Systems Conference. We presented 5 papers on the special session: Re-Distributed Manufacturing Pathways to Impact. 

The papers are now published on CIRP Procedia, an Open Access Journal. 

We are thrilled to announce that The Shoe Lab

got shortlisted for the edie Sustainability Leaders Award under the Sustainability Product Innovation: Resource Category. We will be attending the awards ceremony on the 25 January 2017. 

To know more visit the edie awards website

The RECODE Network was present at RESOURCE Event in London. We conducted a workshop on the opportunities, challenges and the role of digital technologies towards circular and re-distributed models of consumption and production. The workshop was a success having about 60 participants. Participants views will be recorded on our Innovation Roadmap.

On 2nd and 3rd March 2016 the RECODE Network hosted a two-day Sandpit to fund three feasibility studies. The Event was held at The SWAN Hotel in Bedford. The event had 31 participants from different UK Universities, industry and other organisations including, Unilever, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Innovate UK. Tim Morley and Liz Ogilvie from KnowInnovation facilitated the activities.

Tim and Liz took participants from getting to know ea...

Representatives from a range of UK manufacturing and technology sectors (SME and established companies), research councils, academics, government policy makers and manufacturing magazine professional are attended the Manufacturing Analytics Event. The event was hosted at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. The workshop explored the role Big Data will play to identify research priorities and address the specific challenge...

The RECODE Network presented a poster at the Digital Technologies for Manufacturing Innovation: Embracing Industry 4.0 at the University of Nottingham. The event was organised by the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (ifAM) at The University of Nottingham, in conjunction with EPSRC and Innovate UK. This was the first time the UK's industrial and academic community is brought together on such a large scale to showcase the diverse range of...

As part of the Green Week at Cranfield University, Dr Fiona Charnley and Dr Mariale Moreno presented the RECODE Network and the initial findings of the Circular Innovation and Re-distributed Manufacturing Feasibility Study. Cranfield students and staff joined the session having very positive feedback to the work that has been done. You can watch a video of the full presentation here. 

The RECODE Network in collaboration with the Great Manchester Chamber of Commerce held the big data, consumer goods and re-distributed event to explore the opportunities and challenges for SMEs drawing on the experience of local businesses and the expertise of the RECODE project partners.

The event took place on the 19th of June 2015 in the offices of the Great Manchester Chamber of Commerce and it included talks from Christian Spence (GMCC) d...

 A multi-disciplinary group of six design and manufacturing Master students at Cranfield University conducted an engagement study to support the RECODE Network. The study started in February 2015 lasting three months.

The aim of this engagement study was to develop an initial understanding of the application of big data and re-distributed manufacturing (RdM) model in the consumer goods sector, and a design strategy for engaging a diverse comm...

On 3rd June 2015 the Network in re-distributed manufacturing, big data and consumer goods (RECODE) was launched in an Event held at IDEALondon. The aim of this event was to introduce the network, and to start developing a multi-disciplinary community that will contribute to this EPSRC-ESCRC funded project. The event brought together academics, practitioners, and policy makers, amongst others to discuss the future and vision of re-distributed m...