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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- In-process non-destructive evaluation of metal additive manufactured components at build using ultrasound and eddy-current approaches
- Zimermann Rastislav, Mohseni Ehsan, Foster Euan A, Vasilev Momchil, Loukas Charalampos, Vithanage Randika KW, Macleod Charles N, Lines David, Silva Misael Pimentel Espirindio E, Fitzpatrick Stephen, Halavage Steven, McKegney Scott, Rizwan Muhammad Khalid, Pierce Stephen Gareth, Williams Stewart, Ding Jialuo
- Journal of Manufacturing Processes Vol 107, pp. 549-558 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmapro.2023.10.063
- InAsSb photodiode fibre otic thermometry for high-speed, near-ambient temperature measurements
- Leonidas Emilios, Hobbs Matthew J, Ayvar-Soberanis Sabino, Laalej Hatim, Fisk Callum, Fitzpatrick Stephen, Willmott Jon R
- Sensors Vol 23 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s23239514
- In-process non-destructive evaluation of wire + arc additive manufacture components using ultrasound high-temperature dry-coupled roller-probe
- Zimermann Rastislav, Mohseni Ehsan, Vasilev Momchil, Loukas Charalampos, Wathavana Vithanage Randika Kosala, MacLeod Charles Norman, Pierce Gareth, Lines David, Pimentel Espirindio E Silva Misael, Fitzpatrick Stephen, Rizwan Muhammad Khalid, Williams Stewart, Ding Jialuo
- European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing 2023 (2023)
Professional Activities
- 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
- Circular Economy Hotspot
- Invited speaker
- 31/10/2018
Projects
- DIGF-CRAD-07196 Remake
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Reimer, Andreas (Co-investigator) Adu-Amankwa, Kwaku (Researcher) Devine, Ryan (Researcher) Howie, Scott (Researcher) Mathew, Pritty (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
- DPN-MED: Digital Plug-and-Produce Network for Sustainable Medicines Development and Manufacturing
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Principal Investigator) Florence, Alastair (Co-investigator) Johnston, Blair (Co-investigator) Markl, Daniel (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 30-Jan-2025
- ReMake Value Retention Centre
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator) MacBryde, Jillian (Co-investigator) MacLeod, Charles Norman (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Revie, Matthew (Co-investigator) Walls, Lesley (Co-investigator) Wynne, Bradley (Co-investigator) Hernandez, Jose Luis (Research Co-investigator) Liu, Zhe (Research Co-investigator) Reimer, Andreas (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2028
- DIGF-CRAD-06638_MariLight_2
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- DIGF-CRAD-06466: Actuation Lab-NATEP Composite Hydrogen Valve Feasibility Study "Project Dragonfly"
- Fitzpatrick, Stephen (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Mr
Stephen
Fitzpatrick
Director – Digital Factory
National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
Email: s.fitzpatrick@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 534 5568