Dr Saikat Kundu CEng, MIMechE, MBCS, FHEA

Senior Lecturer

My profile

Biography

I am a senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering. I joined the Department of Engineering at the Manchester Metropolitan University in September, 2012. I am a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

I am also a visiting researcher at the Institute of Design, Robotics and Optimisation, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds.

From 2006 to 2012, I was a Research Fellow in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds.

My research centres on industrial engineering and operations management. In the past ten years, I led collaborative research projects with industrial partners such as ABB Limited, Rolls-Royce Plc, BAE Systems and Age UK.

I am recipient of the Professional Engineering Publishing best paper award (2008) from the IMechE.

X

Academic and professional qualifications

Qualifications:

PGCAP, Manchester Metropolitan University (2016)

PhD, Supply Chain Engineering - School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds (2005)

MSc(Eng), Mechanical Engineering - School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds (2001)

BEng, Mechanical Engineering - Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, University of North Bengal, India (1997)

Professional Distinctions:

CEng, MIMechE, MBCS, FHEA

X

Other academic service (administration and management)

  • UG Placement Coordinator for the Department of Engineering
  • Health & Safety Coordinator for the Department of Engineering
  • IED (Institution of Engineering Designers)  Liasion for Department of Engineering
  • Unit/Module Leader: Manufacturing Systems Management / Manufacturing Engineering;  Management and Professional Skills; Integrated Management Systems

Languages

English and Bengali

Expert reviewer

  • Reviewer for the Journal of Service Research

X

Prizes and awards

  • Recipient of Professional Engineering Publishing best paper award (2008) from the IMechE for my article in the Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Membership of professional associations

  • Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  • Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE)
  • Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Get in touch

0161 247 1636
JDE336 John Dalton Building

Projects

(2006-2009) KIM - Immortal Information and Through-life Knowledge Management - [An EPSRC/ESRC Grant Challenge Project]

(2008-2009) S4T - Support Service Solutions: Strategy and Transition - [An EPSRC/BAE Systems Strategic Partnership Project]

(2009-2011) SEEDS - An Organic Approach to Virtual Participatory Design - [An EPSRC Design in the Digital World project]

(2011-2012) A collaborative research project with Rolls-Royce on Supplier Engineering Improvement

(Jun 2018 - Oct 2020) AIR HANDLERS (KTP) - [Innovate UK Knowledge Tranfer Project - Project ID: 70867]: Co-Investigator

(Jan 2021-Dec 2022) BIND-A-TEX (KTP) - [Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Project - Project ID: 413648]: Co-Investigator

Teaching

How I’ll teach you

Responsible for teaching the following units of the BEng(Hons)/MEng(Hons)/MSc degree courses in Mechanical/Automotive Engineering.

Present

POST-GRADUATE: Manufacturing Systems Management (6E7Z2123) / Manufacturing Engineering (6E7Z2102); MSc Engineering Project (6E7Z2120)

UNDERGRADUATE: Engineering Management (6E6Z2110); Professional Design and Practice (6E5Z2100); Engineering Design and Practice (6E4Z2100); Individual Engineering Project (6E6Z1100)

Past

Management and Professional Skills (6E5Z2005);  Design and Modelling (6E5Z2003);  Integrated Management Systems (64ET7007);  Technical Values (6E4Z2003); Project (64ET3590)

Postgraduate teaching

Systems Engineering for Industry (6E7Z2131)

Manufacturing Systems Management (6E7Z2123)

Manufacturing Engineering (6E7Z2102)

Manufacturing for Industry 4.0 (6E7Z2149)

Project Delivery 2 (6E7Z2127)

MSc Engineering Project (6E7Z2120)

Research outputs

My research activities fall within the following domains. Potential students interested in studying PhD in these areas, please contact: S.Kundu@mmu.ac.uk

  • Engineering Management & Operations Management
  • Supply Chain & Logistics Management
  • Continuous Improvement Approaches (Lean and Six-Sigma)
  • Business Process Simulation
  • Product-service Systems / Service Engineering
  • Industry 4.0

  • Books (authored/edited/special issues)

    Kundu, S. (2012) Decoupling Points Selection in Supply Chains. Saarbrücken, Germany: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG..

  • Chapters in books

    Kundu, S. 'Supply networks: An approach to designing an extended enterprise.' In Chris McMahon, Deba Dutta and George Huang, (ed.) Product Lifecycle Management: Supporting the Extended Enterprise. Geneva: Inderscience Publishers, pp. 505-514.

    Kundu, S., McKay, A., Holt, R.J., Valentine, E., Bobrowicz, A., Coleman, G., Gibson, L., Hanson, V. (2011) 'Towards an organic participatory approach to design for digital inclusion.' In Chakrabarti, A. (ed.) Research into Design: Supporting Sustainable Product Development. Singapore: Research Publishing, pp. 220-227.

    McKay, A., Kundu, S. (2011) 'A blueprint for engineering service definition.' In Ng, I., Parry, G., Wild,, P.J., McFarlane, D., Tasker, P. (ed.) Complex Engineering Service Systems: Concepts and Research. London, UK: Springer-Verlag, pp. 215-232.

    McKay, A., Kundu, S., de Pennington, A. (2009) 'Supply networks: An approach to designing an extended enterprise.' In McMahon, C., Dutta, D., Huang, G. (ed.) Product Lifecycle Management: Supporting the Extended Enterprise. Geneva: Inderscience Publishers, pp. 505-514.

    Kundu, S., McKay, A., De Pennington, A., Moss, N., Chapman, N. (2007) 'Implications for engineering information systems design in the product-service paradigm.' pp. 165-170.

  • Reports

    Kundu, S., McKay, A., Saxena, D., Tiwari, A., Cuthbert, R. (2009) Future Service Information Blueprint: Future Target for Road-mapping. IfM, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK..

    Saxena, D., Cuthbert, R., Kundu, S., Tiwari, A., McKay, A., McFarlane, D. (2009) Case Study Report. IfM, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

    Saxena, D., Tiwari, A., Cuthbert, R., Pearson, C., Kundu, S., McKay, A., McFarlane, D. (2009) Service Information Requirements. IfM, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

    Kundu, S., McKay, A., Saxena, D., Tiwari, A., Cuthbert, R., McFarlane, D. (2008) Current State of Service Information. IfM, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK..

  • Journal articles

    Achee, B., Kundu, S., Latif, M. (2022) 'Exploiting discrete event simulation to improve a chicken supply chain.' BOHR International Journal of Advances in Management Research, 1(1) pp. 65-75.

    Hardy, D., Kundu, S., Latif, M. (2021) 'Productivity and process performance in a manual trimming cell exploiting Lean Six Sigma (LSS) DMAIC – a case study in laminated panel production.' International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 38(9) pp. 1861-1879.

    Wiggin, A., Latif, M., Kundu, S. (2020) 'A study of continuous modelling using simulation software for business processes.' Journal of Innovative Science & Technology Review, 1(1) pp. 1-10.

    Serdaroglu, M., Latif, M.N., Kundu, S. (2016) 'Paediatric patient flow modelling using Witness.' International Journal of Engineering Research and Allied Sciences, 1(2) pp. 1-5.

    Kundu, S. (2015) 'Service Information Blueprint: A Scheme for Defining Service Information Requirements.' Journal of Service Science Research, 7(1) pp. 21-53.

    McKay, A., Kundu, S. (2014) 'A representation scheme for digital product service system definitions.' Advanced Engineering Informatics, 28(4) pp. 479-498.

    Ong, J.Q., Latif, M., Kundu, S., Tyagi, G.K., Sehgal, P. (2014) 'Exploiting Witness Simulation for SCM.' International Journal of Research in Management, Science & Technology, 2

    Valentine, E., Bobrowicz, A., Coleman, G.W., Gibson, L., Hanson, V.L., Kundu, S., McKay, A., Holt, R.J. (2011) 'Narrating Past to Present: Conveying the Needs and Values of Older People to Young Digital Technology Designers..' Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6766(1) pp. 243-249.

    Kundu, S., A. McKay and A. de Pennington, , De Pennington, A. (2008) 'Selection of decoupling points in supply chains using a knowledge-based approach.' Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 222(11) pp. 1529-1549.

  • Conference papers

    Reid, I., Kundu, S., Latif, M. (2023) 'Evaluating a Covid-19 vaccine centre in the UK using a DES model.' In International Virtual Conference on Industry 4.0 (ICVI). Online, 9/12/2021 - 10/12/2021. Jagadeesh Kannan, R., Geetha, S., Sashikumar, S., Diver, C. (ed.) Singapore: Springer, pp. 197-210.

    Kundu, S., Latif, M., Hořejší, P. (2023) 'Using DES to Improve the Efficiency of a Covid-19 Vaccination Centre.' In Research and Innovation Forum 2022 (RIIFORUM 2022): Rupture, Resilience and Recovery in the Post-Covid World. Athens, Greece, 27/4/2022 - 29/4/2022. Visvizi, A., Troisi, O., Grimaldi, M. (ed.) Cham: Srpinger, pp. 819-832.

    Latif, M.N., Kheshaim, M., Kundu, S. (2016) 'A Review of Elevator Dispatching Systems.' II. 29/6/2016 - 1/7/2016. International Association of Engineers, pp. 671-673.

    Kundu, S., McKay, A., Baker, R., de Pennington, A., Thorpe, R. (2013) 'Realising design engineering capability across distributed enterprise networks.' In 9th International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China (GMC '13). Hangzhou, PEOPLES R CHINA, 7/9/2013 - 8/9/2013. WU, X., SHI, Y., DU, J., GUO, B. (ed.) Cambridge, UK: Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, UK, pp. 111-116.

    McKay, A., Baker, R., Kundu, S., de Pennington, A., Thorpe, R. (2013) 'Realising design engineering capability across distributed enterprise networks.' In The Ninth International Symposium on Global Manufacturing and China. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 7/9/2013 - 8/9/2013. Wu, X., Shi, Y., Du, J., Guo, B. (ed.) Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge, pp. 111-116.

    Kundu, S., McKay, A., Baker, R., de Pennington, A., Thorpe, R. (2012) 'Co-creating value across supply networks: Towards an agenda for supply chain design engineering capability development.' In The 16th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium. Møller Centre, Cambridge, UK, 20/9/2012 - 21/9/2012. J Singh, T Harrington, M Kumar, Y Shi, (ed.) Cambridge, UK: Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, pp. 204-217.

    Gibson, L., Coleman, G., Hanson, V., Valentine, E., Bobrowicz, A., Kundu, S., McKay, A., Holt, R. (2010) 'Seeds - designing for (and with) the digitally disengaged.' In Digital Economy All Hands Meeting - Digital Futures’10 Conference. Crowne Plaza, Nottingham, UK, 11/10/2010 - 12/10/2010. Nottingham, UK: Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham Innovation Park,

    Kundu, S., McKay, A., Dawson, P.G. (2010) 'Understanding information requirements in product- service systems design.' In Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS2). Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, 14/4/2010 - 15/4/2010. T Sakao, T Larsson and M Lindahl, (ed.) Linkoping, Sweden: Linkoping University Press, pp. 141-148.

    McKay, A., Kundu, S. (2009) 'Service information design in the transition from product to service delivery.' In IMechE Seminar on Knowledge and Information Management Through-Life. Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK, 29/9/2009 - 29/9/2009. London, UK: Institution of Mechanical Engineers,

    McKay, A., Kundu, S., Dawson, P., De Pennington, A. (2009) 'An integrated product, process and rationale model for the provision of through-life information in product service systems.' pp. 263-274.

    Kundu, S., McKay, A., Cuthbert, R., McFarlane, D., Saxena, D., Tiwari, A., Johnson, P. (2009) 'Service information in provision of the support service solutions: A state-of-the-art review.' In 1st CIRP Industrial Product Service Systems (IPS2) Conference. Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK, 1/4/2009 - 2/4/2009. Rajkumar Roy and Essam Shehab, (ed.) Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK: Cranfield University Press, pp. 100-106.

    McKay, A., Kundu, S., de Pennington, A. (2008) 'Supply chain development: towards tools for the consideration of the extended enterprise.' In OR50: The 50th Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society - Supply Chain (SUP) Stream. University of York, York, UK, 9/9/2008 - 11/9/2008. University of York, York, UK: The Operational Research Society, pp. 142-142.

    Kundu, S., McKay, A. (2008) 'Product development and the transition to product service system.' In IMechE Seminar on Knowledge and Information Management Through-Life. Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London (IMechE), 24/6/2008 - 24/6/2008. London, UK: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London (IMechE),

    McKay, A., Kundu, S., de Pennington, A. (2008) 'An integrated product, process and rationale model for through-life information management.' In Knowledge and Information Management Through-Life Project Conference 2008. University of Reading, Reading, UK, 2/4/2008 - 3/4/2008. Mansur Darlington and Alex Ball, (ed.) Bath, UK: University of Bath, UK, pp. 7-7.

    Kundu, S., A McKay, A de Pennington, N Moss and N Chapman, (2007) 'Implications for engineering information systems design in the product-service paradigm.' In KIM Project Conference 2007 – Knowledge and Information Management Through-Life. Ariadne. Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, 28/3/2007 - 29/3/2007. University of Bath, UK: UKOLN,

  • Theses and dissertations

    Kundu, S. (2005) The selection of decoupling points in extended enterprise supply chains.