Institutional excellence

Posted on 4 Jan 2010 by The Manufacturer

The Institute for Manufacturing was established in 1998 to provide a collaborative environment for the creation and transfer of ideas, research and holistic approaches to modern industrial realities. A decade on, TM’s Edward Machin discovers an institution at the forefront of global manufacturing practices, and with a new low carbon building to boot.

Cambridge University. The Night Climbers; punting on the Cam; ferociously bright young things pouring over Darwin, Dickens, Dworkin and de Beauvoir. So far, so clichéd. Yet it would not be churlish to suggest that industrial sustainability, lean and production processes aren’t readily associated with the quads and colleges of the second oldest university in the…

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