Mr Stephen Fitzpatrick
Director - Digital Factory
National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
Personal statement
Stephen is the Director of the Digital Factory at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, University of Strathclyde and is also strategic lead on Remanufacturing. He leads a multidisciplinary dynamic team of 65 engineers and scientists, and over £20m of capital equipment, across disciplines, including Digital Manufacturing, Design Engineering, Additive Manufacturing, Subtractive Manufacturing, Robotics and Metrology Systems. Stephen is also Director of the Remake Value Retention Centre (2024-2028), a new £10m centre commissioned by UKRI as part of the Accelerating the Green Economy Centres funding call. The aim of the Remake Value Retention Centre (RVRC) is to adopt a cross-sector, system level approach to maximise the life of high integrity sector products. A key driver of Stephen’s research is developing solutions that enable a circular economy, particularly in high value, high integrity sectors, such as aerospace, marine, renewables. This involves maximising the life of existing products and designing and manufacturing new products to optimise circular opportunities, with digital technologies playing a crucial role in this. - Principal Investigator on ~£15 million of UKRI-funded projects, - PI on £4.5 million ‘ReMake’ project (2022-2024) with partners British Airways, Boeing, Howden Compressors, SSE-R, Renewable Parts, ATS, transitioning to circularity. - PI on the Remake Value Retention Centre (2024-2028)- £10m UKRI centre, funded through the Accelerating the Green Economy Centres funding call. - Member of EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for Manufacturing and Circular Economy - Fellow of the IMechE - Member of ASTM F42 Standards Committee for additive manufacturing. - Advisory Group for the Value Retention report commissioned by IUK for CSR - HVMC Delivery and Impact Executive Member
Publications
- General architecture subsystem : A schema‑agnostic layered architecture for digital product passports in Industry 4.0
- Kumar Anmol, Howie Scott, Munawar Syed Awais, Fitzpatrick Stephen
- 2026 International Conference on Industry of the Future and Smart Manufacturing (ISM) 2026 International Conference on Industry of the Future and Smart Manufacturing (ISM) (2026)
- Integrating remake DPP and remanufacturing decision engine to enable the next wave of SME remanufacturers
- Munawar Syed Awais H, Hoffmann Moritz, Knorn Steffi, Howie Scott, Fitzpatrick Stephen
- International Conference on Industry of the Future and Smart Manufacturing, pp. 1-10 (2025)
- Made2Verify : a scalable GS1-compliant resolver and fallback dashboard for digital product passports
- Howie Scott, Munawar Syed Awais, Reimer Andreas, Fitzpatrick Stephen
- International Conference on Industry of the Future and Smart Manufacturing, pp. 1-8 (2025)
- Enabling remanufacturing with Digital Product Passports : the ReMake DPP
- Munawar Syed, Reimer Andreas, Howie Scott Ronald, Adu-Amankwa Kwaku, Kerr William, Fitzpatrick Stephen
- 7th International conference on remanufacturing (ICoR 2025 ), pp. 1-15 (2025)
- Applying additive manufacturing technology to remanufacture a wind turbine pinion shaft
- Mohammad Ashfaq, Rane Kedarnath, Williams Elen Lloyd, Pimentel Espirindio E Silva Misael, Mckegney Scott, McCuaig Ryan, Seth Sampan, Reimer Andreas, Fitzpatrick Stephen
- 7th International conference on remanufacturing (ICoR 2025 ), pp. 304-318 (2025)
- Hybrid manufacturing approach for landing gear applications : WAAM Ti–6Al–4V on forged Ti–5Al–5Mo–5V–3Cr
- Hicks Calum, Tamimi Saeed, Sivaswamy Giribaskar, Pimentel Misael, Mckegney Scott, Fitzpatrick Stephen
- Journal of Materials Research and Technology Vol 30, pp. 6596-6608 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmrt.2024.05.088
Professional Activities
- Remake value retention centre industry roundtable
- Participant
- 25/2/2026
- Using In-Process NDE Inspection to Qualify WAAM Builds: Working towards Qualification for Different NDE Modalities
- Contributor
- 30/10/2023
- Automated Inspection Research Developments for Full Lifecycle Inspection
- Contributor
- 19/4/2023
- Developments of in-process NDE techniques for Wire + Arc Additive Manufacture at University of Strathclyde
- Contributor
- 30/10/2022
- Additive Manufacturing Awareness Event
- Organiser
- 7/11/2018
- Additive Manufacturing Awareness Event
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 7/11/2018
Projects
- DigiRepair: Digital Adoption and Additive Manufacturing Innovation for Next-Generation Aerospace and Power Generation Repair
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2027
- MEERCAT - Metal Engineering for an Ecosystem of Recycling to Create Affordable TitaniumLEAD_09274
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Seth, Sampan (Co-investigator) Wynne, Bradley (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2026 - 31-Jan-2029
- DIGF-CRAD-07193 Remake Glasgow Extension
- Kumar, Anmol (Researcher) Howie, Scott (Researcher) Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Munawar, Syed Awais (Co-investigator) Reimer, Andreas (Project Lead)
- Python toolkit that enables manufacturers to quickly generate standards-compliant Digital Product Passports (DPP) by mapping existing business data to DPP schemas.
- 03-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Assessing the Feasibility of Machine Learning-Based Optimisaton for Distortion Control in Additive Manufacturing
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 28-Jan-2026
- DIGF-CRAD-07196 Remake
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Reimer, Andreas (Co-investigator) Adu-Amankwa, Kwaku (Researcher) Devine, Ryan (Researcher) Glen, Lewes (Researcher) Howie, Scott (Researcher) Mathew, Pritty (Researcher) Rhattigan, Joseph (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- DIGF-DIRF-07028
- Millar, Richard (Principal Investigator) Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Co-investigator) McDaid, Daniel John (Co-investigator) Henry, Gwenole (Researcher)
- 24-Jan-2025 - 28-Jan-2026
Contact
Mr
Stephen
Fitzpatrick
Director - Digital Factory
National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
Email: s.fitzpatrick@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 534 5568