Marco Franchino
MSc
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
Lead Engineer for Manufacturing Intelligence
Full contact details
Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre
Factory 2050
Sheffield Business Park
Sheffield
S9 1ZA
- Profile
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Marco Franchino received a MSc Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Torino (Italy) in 2011. He is the Lead Engineer for Manufacturing Intelligence at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), part of the University of Sheffield: Marco has wide R&D and industrial experience in Discrete Event Simulation, factory flow modelling, cost modelling, and cost prediction strategies focused on products, resources, and investments estimation. He is also an expert in trade studies to isolate the best/most balanced solution and decision-making techniques.
- Research interests
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- Cost Modelling
- Discrete Event Simulation
- Optimisation in Manufacturing
- Optimisation in Supply Chain
- Structural Complexity
- Manufacturing and Supply Chain Resilience
- Investment evaluation
- Decision-Making
- Life-Cycle Costs
- Sustainability & Profitability
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Human-powered hydroponic systems: An environmental and economic assessment. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 46, 268-281.
Chapters
- Framework for Sustainability in Aerospace: A Proof of Concept on Decision Making and Scenario Comparison, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (pp. 659-668). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- A Prioritisation Guide for more sustainable manufacturing processes. https://euroma2024.org/full-papers/
- Decision support for resilient manufacturing supply chains. EurOMA 2024. Barcelona, Spain, 29 June 2024 - 29 June 2024. View this article in WRRO
- Supply Chain Structural Complexity of a UK-Based
Net-Zero Industrial Cluster. https://euroma2023.org/full-papers-2/
- Human-powered hydroponic systems: An environmental and economic assessment. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 46, 268-281.
- Research group
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Manufacturing Intelligence - Digital (Integrated Manufacturing Group)
- Grants
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NEXUS (Innovate UK: Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: Collaborative R&D) Tech Lead - £150,000
AI5130 - MASTER - Tech Lead
AI-22-253 - Project Butterfly - Tech Lead
AI5287 - Zero Carbon Humber - Tech Lead