Alison McKay received a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bradford and was awarded a PhD on relationships in product data in 1996. She is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Her research centres on socio-technical aspects of engineering design systems and the networks of organisations that both develop and deliver products to market, and support them through life to disposal or reuse. The focus of her personal research lies in the establishment of systematic and, where possible, well-founded underpinnings for such systems, in particular, for the definition of product data. This has led to research on extended enterprise network structures and their alignment with the delivery of business strategy. Her research is positioned within the context of stage gate processes that typify current industry practice. It aims to facilitate improved modes of working through the exploitation of digital technologies and to establish design methods and tools to support systematic evaluation of design alternatives at decision gates. Further information may be found via the following link.
https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/mechanical-engineering/staff/39/professor-alison-mckay
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