Telephone: 44(0) 121 204 3051

Email: t.baines@aston.ac.uk

Professor Tim Baines specialises in the realisation of competitive manufacturing operations.  He works extensively across the disciplines of management and engineering, is highly active in postgraduate and executive teaching and supervision, has a strong track record of raising research funding, and has consistently published his work in the leading journals of his field.  He has experience of a wide range of industrial engineering, technology management, and manufacturing management disciplines, and works with the leading companies in his field including Rolls-Royce, Caterpillar, Alstom, MAN and Xerox.  His career started with a technician apprenticeship, and has progressed through a variety of industrial and academic positions, including that of Visiting Scholar within the Centre for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He holds a variety of positions, including membership of EPSRC College of Peers, a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and Institution of Engineers and Technologists, and is a Chartered Engineer.

Operations strategy formulation

Product-Service Systems and the servitization of manufacturing

Industrial and competitive strategy for services

Servitization and Product-Service Systems

Strategy for industrial operations

BNM879, Operations Management

BNM899, Operations Management

MBAPROJ, Project Part B

Academic

Founder and Director, Advanced Services Group, Aston Business School (2015 - Present)

Head of Department, Operations and Information Management, Aston Business School (2013-2015)

Professor of Operations Strategy, Aston Business School. (2011 - Present)

Technical Director, Boeing IVHM Centre, Cranfield University (2009 – 2011)

Co-lead EPSRC Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, Cranfield (2006 - 2011)

Professor of Strategic Manufacture, Cranfield University. (2005 - 2011)

Senior Lecturer and Head of Group, Cranfield University. (1998 - 2005)

Research Manager, Staffordshire University (1997 - 1998)

Post-doc International Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (1996 - 1997)

Post-doc International Scholar, Auburn University, USA (1997 - 1998)

Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, North Staffordshire Polytechnic.(1989 - 1996)

Industrial

Production Engineer, GEC Turbine Generators, Stafford, UK. (1987 - 1989)

Graduate Engineer, Baker Perkins, Peterborough. (1985 - 1987)

Process Engineer, Campden Food Preservation Research Association. (1984 - 1985)

Technical Apprentice, A.L.Dunn & Co, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. (1983 - 1984)

Technical Apprentice, Manor Bakeries, Wythenshawe, Manchester. (1982 - 1983)

Ph D, Cranfield University, 1994. Subject: Manufacturing Strategy Formulation

MSc, Cranfield University, 1987. Subject: Manufacturing Systems Engineering

HND, CNAA, 1984. Subject: Mechanical engineering as part of technician apprenticeship

Fellow, Institution of Engineers and Technologists

Fellow, Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences

Fellow, Higher Education Academy

Aston 50^th Anniversary Professor of Operations Strategy

Board Member of the Through-Life Engineering Services Council

Advisor West Midlands Regional Industrial Strategy

Strategic Advisory Board of the Leasing and Finance Association  

Member, Aston University Senate, University