A cladistics and Linnaean exploration into the Darwinian selection of favorable varieties of the ideal / textbook manufacturing species

Dr. C. Rose-Anderssen was involved in the project ‘Cooperation Environment for Rapid Design, Prototyping and New Integration Concept for the Factory of the Future’ at Advanced Manufacturing Research Center with Boeing, the University of Sheffield, UK. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the AMRC. He was engaged in the ESRC research project Modelling the Evolution of the Aerospace Supply Chain. Before that he worked as a Research Officer in the project New Product Development as a Complex System of Decisions at the Complex Systems Research Center, Cranfield University. He worked as a naval architect and manager in the shipbuilding industry in Northern Europe for many years. He worked as a consultant in shipbuilding in Asia and as a manager in the Norwegian offshore engineering industry.

James S. Baldwin is a Lecturer in Manufacturing Technology at AMRC, the University of Sheffield. Research interests include the development and application of evolutionary theory and classification science in the context of engineering management, operations, production and supply chain management, strategic management, and organizational behavior.

Keith Ridgway (CBE, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering) is executive dean of the University of Sheffield AMRC, and research director and co-founder of the AMRC with Boeing. He also takes additional role as Executive Chair of the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) at the University of Strathclyde. Focusing on strategy development of three major manufacturing research centres in complementary areas to guide future manufacturing policies in the UK and support collaborating companies to gain access to the facilities and expertise in high value manufacturing.