Consultancy Team

At MARS we deliver analysis and consultancy services to any industry which has materials based needs. Our services cover a range of specialist areas. If you're unsure of what you need please contact us and our experts will be pleased to advise you. All services are provided by experts from the research community at Sheffield Hallam University. Solutions to your problems are delivered using a range of state-of the art instruments and techniques. MARS is one of 14 Centres for Industrial Collaboration (CIC) based at Yorkshire universities. MARS is based at the Materials and Engineering Research Institute (MERI) at Sheffield Hallam University. Our reception is located on floor 5 of the Norfolk building at City Campus.

Sheaf Solutions

About the team

Sheaf Solutions is a consultancy arm of the systems modelling and integration group in the Centre for Automation and Robotics Research.
We provide a broad range of consulting services, drawing on a unique combination of systems engineering, operational analysis and technology capabilities to assist businesses to successfully solve problems and drive improvements resulting in increased revenue, reduced costs, streamlined relocations, reduced lead times, eliminated waste and improved overall cost efficiency.
We work with all sizes of companies in a variety of industries, such as aerospace, automotive, healthcare, manufacturing, postal service and food and service industries. Our areas of expertise are process modelling and simulation, lean operations and automation and robotics

Dr Faris Al-Naemi

Phone 0114 225 6848
Email F.Al-Naemi@shu.ac.uk

Dr./ BEng. MSc. PhD

Dr David Clegg

Phone 0114 225 6894
Fax 0114 225 3433
E-mail d.r.clegg@shu.ac.uk

BEng, PhD, FHEA

David has many years expertise in process improvement using both Lean and discrete event simulation; both in academia and industry.

Claire Jeavons

Phone 0114 225 6185
Email C.Jeavons@shu.ac.uk

Professor Terrence Perera

Phone 0114 225 3413
Fax 0114 225 3433
E-mail t.d.perera@shu.ac.uk

Professor Sameh Saad

Phone 0114 225 6850
Email S.Saad@shu.ac.uk

Chair in Enterprise Modelling and Management / BSc (Honours), MSc, PhD, CEng, MIET, MILT

Dr Hongwei Zhang

Phone 0114 225 6893
Email H.Zhang@shu.ac.uk

BEng, MSc, PhD, CEng, MIET

Consultancy Team

Dr Imtiyaz Ahmed Ansari

Phone 0114 225 4681

Email i.ansari@shu.ac.uk

Robert Burton

Phone 0114 225 3401
Email R.P.Burton@shu.ac.uk

Profile coming soon.

Dr Fabio Caparrelli

Phone 0114 225 3277
Fax 0114 225 3501
E-mail f.caparrelli@shu.ac.uk

Senior Research Fellow, PhD

Professor Graham Cockerham

Phone 0114 225 3378
Email G.Cockerham@shu.ac.uk

Profile coming soon.

Dr Nick Farmilo

Phone 0114 225 4078
E-mail n.farmilo@shu.ac.uk

Nick brings experience in research, sales and technology transfer, which allows him to easily identify how MERI's research knowledge and expertise can be used to provide solutions to commercial problems.