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          • Digital Catapult is a deep tech innovation organisation driving business value by accelerating the application of advanced technologies.

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            £555m

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          • Our ambition is to realise the practical application of deep tech through four interventions

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            Enabling UK deep tech companies to scale

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            Improving UK industrial supply chain resilience

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            We are an organisation made up of almost 300 innovators.

            We pride ourselves on the skilled and talented people from varied backgrounds that make up our team – we harness the expertise, perspectives and connections of people of more than 40 nationalities, thereby bringing together a diversity of skills, experience and backgrounds.

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            Energy Systems Catapult and Digital Catapult have partnered to explore the groundwork for a UK-wide initiative to accelerate a digitalised,...
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Digital Catapult > Get involved > Opportunities > Smart Manufacturing Experiment
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Smart Manufacturing Experiment

Open date: Tuesday 2 August 2022   Close date: Tuesday 20 September 2022

Overview

FutureScope Smart Manufacturing Experiment is a 12-week programme designed to empower up to 15 manufacturing companies from the UK to leverage the smart technologies, tools and techniques of Industry 4.0. The workshop series will enable participants to design actionable solutions for identified business challenges and opportunities.

At the end of the 12 week period, having created a proposal for a solution to address their specific business challenge or opportunity, participants will take part in a Demo Day in early 2023 to present this proposal to industry experts and peers. The resulting feedback from this event will enable the participants to take their proposal to the next stage of development.

Benefits

Funded by UK Research and Innovation’s Strength in Places Fund and delivered by Digital Catapult as part of the Smart Nano NI consortium, the Smart Manufacturing Experiment pathway will offer participants the chance to:

Learn from and work alongside experts in nanotechnology, photonics, 5G, data Science (machine learning and AI), internet of things (IoT), distributed systems (such as blockchain) and immersive technologies (including augmented and virtual reality.)

Potential to gain training in innovation practice and smart technologies.

Access specialist expertise and learning resources from the members of the Smart Nano NI consortium – Digital Catapult, Queen’s University, Ulster University, Seagate Technology Ireland, Analytics Engines, Causeway Sensors, Cirdan and Yelo.

Benefit from a dedicated learning facilitator to guide them through the accelerator process.

Define a specific business challenge and scope out the potential advanced technology solution to that challenge.

To check eligibility or apply, visit the FutureScope website

Apply now