Innovate UK Funding: Making UK Manufacturing Smarter

Businesses can apply for a share of £30 million to support projects that use digital technology to improve the productivity and agility of UK manufacturing.

The competition aims to support projects that can achieve short-term impact and rapid technology development through industrial digitalisation across a range of sectors from aerospace to food and drink and pharma.

Projects can be led by any sector but must show how they could be applied to at least 2 other sectors.

They should fit into one of 4 themes:

• Smart, connected factory, including use of real-time data to optimise efficiency and capture, analysis and visualisation of manufacturing processes
• Connected and versatile supply chain, including information integration, communication, traceability and trust
• Design, make, test, including transforming product design through digital technologies and virtual product testing, verification and modelling, quality monitoring and inspection
• Adaptable flexible manufacturing operations and skills, including culture change and skills development, and human-centric automation and autonomy

External Link: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-uk-manufacturing-smarter-apply-for-funding?utm_source=f991359f-e751-4f04-a339-4d3ad98f3b5d&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=daily