What World-Class University aims to achieve?

The centre’s mission

The mission of the Centre for Excellence in Research is to increase the competitiveness of manufacturing and service industry by enhancing their management and technological capability in producing value-added products and services in today’s global market. In order to satisfy the above mission, the centre aims to contribute to the development of manufacturing and service industry by:

• Conducting leading edge research to support and enable manufacturing and service industry in the process of modernising and improving management and technological knowledge
• Enhancing the knowledge in operations management from a practical point of view through collaborative research with the industry
• Promoting high value-added manufacturing and service management activities to facilitate a shift from labour-intensive to knowledge-intensive operations
• Increasing the number of able people in manufacturing and service through innovative industry-based programmes such as workshops, training, and consultations