Philip Webb

Cranfield University, UK

Biography

Phil Webb has a PhD in Manufacturing Engineering and is the Head of the Advanced Systems Centre at Cranfield University and the Deputy Director of the EPSRC Centre in Innovative Manufacturing in Intelligent Automation. He currently holds a Royal Academy of Engineering and Airbus Chair. During his career, he has worked with most of the major UK Aerospace companies including Airbus. Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Bombardier and GKN. He is an elected member of the Council of the British Robotics and Automation Association and has previously served as the UK representative to the International Federation for Robotics. His main research area is the implementation of flexible and reconfigurable automation in the aerospace industry with a strong focus on close human and industrial robot collaboration. He has published over 80 papers on robotics and automation.