Contact Dr Jafar Jamshidi
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 750111
- Email: J.Jamshidi@cranfield.ac.uk
Areas of expertise
- Aerospace Manufacturing
- Aircraft Design
- Manufacturing Systems
- Systems Engineering
Background
Jafar Jamshidi is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer of IMechE and a Fellow of Chartered Management Institutue with a multidisciplinary academic background, holding a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, an Executive MBA focused on Operations Research, an MSc in IT for Manufacturing, and a BSc in Industrial Engineering, Systems Planning, and Analysis. He also completed a three-year apprenticeship in manufacturing and toolmaking. He brings over 35 years of industrial experience in high-value manufacturing, progressing from workshop technician to Chief Quality Engineer, and academic and research experience, contributing to numerous publicly funded and industrial research projects, particularly in manufacturing and assembly automation and systems integration. Jafar is currently a member of the Centre for Aeronautics, Propulsion and Power, leading multidisciplinary MSc modules, including Manufacturing Technologies and Systems, Design for Manufacturing and Operations, Product Design Realisation (utilising the 3DEXPERIENCE platform), Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Initial Structural Layout, Major Structural Component Design and Manufacture, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), Dimensional Measurement and Management. He actively collaborates with leading industrial partners and research organisations, including major companies across aerospace, automotive, energy, and advanced manufacturing sectors, as well as their supply chains.
Research opportunities
Design for X, particularly for sustainability, made, assembly and measurability
AI enabeled product design and and optimisation
Manufacturing and assembly systems and their integration
Industry 5.0 with special interest in human-robot collaboration for product development
Optimisation for additive manufacturing of structural components
Metrology assisted manufacturing and assembly
Dimensional measurement and management for high value manufacturing
Performance evaluation of measurement systems and technologies
Bespoke manufacturing, assembly and verification system development
Industry 4.0 implementation
Reverse engineering
Quality engineering
Current activities
Current research activies include:
- Manufacturing and assembly automation
- Product design automation
- Cyber-physical systems and internet of things
- Digital transformation for sustainable manufacturing
- Critical structural components optimisation by multiphysics simulations
- Design for manufacturing and automation - component topology optimisation
- Aircraft architecture modelling 鈥� from system-level design to subsystem details
- Integrated health monitoring sensors for critical aerostructures
- Dimensional measurement and management for new aircraft
- New technology implementation and management for large collaborative projects
Clients
- Dassault Systemes SE
- Airbus SE
- QinetiQ Group PLC
- GKN Ltd
- Leonardo S.p.A
- Royal Air Force
- BAE Systems PLC
- Hexagon AB
- Jaguar Land Rover Ltd
- National Physical Laboratory
