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2020-09-11 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | £300 million to boost UK manufacturing productivity by 30%Businesses with creative ideas to boost the UK's manufacturing capacities set to received £300 million of joint government and industry funding.
Businesses with creative ideas to boost the UK’s manufacturing capabilities, including using robotics, AI and augmented reality, are set to receive £300m of joint government and industry funding, Business Secretary Alok Sharma confirmed at London Tech Week today (11 September 2020). Through the Manufacturing Made Smarter Challenge, the government will invest £147 million – backed by further funding from industry – to support businesses implement new tech to boost their manufacturing productivity, helping them reach new customers, create thousands of new highly skilled jobs, slash carbon emissions and reduce prices for consumers. The first £50 million of the funding is being allocated to fourteen cutting-edge manufacturing projects involving around 30 small or medium businesses, 29 larger enterprises and nine universities, with the rest of the funds due over the next 5 years. A company behind one winning project - the Digital Designer Robot – aims to offer machine-to-person ‘digital assistance.’ When a business needs a bespoke product, it will be able to use a digital robot to help design it and upload the design quickly onto a supplier’s website - so the product can then be sampled, prototyped and manufactured by the supplier. The virtual assistant would also offer expert advice and guidance, by ‘conversing’ with businesses to ask questions, listen to feedback, and provide suggestions. This could reduce the time it takes to manufacture products, as well as cut costs and waste thanks to a more precise design process. Another is developing super lightweight, aluminium bikes for children using robots, whilst another is pioneering the use of AI to help businesses design new products. Business Secretary Alok Sharma said:
Other winning projects include:
Today’s funding was announced at London Tech Week – an annual event celebrating innovation, talent and development of the tech sector. The Manufacturing Made Smarter programme will also support technology SMEs through growth accelerators - partnerships between the government and the private sector where experts will work with businesses to identify barriers to growth and ways to overcome them. It will also create a national network of innovation ‘hubs’ where businesses can partner or share advice, to help spur growth and creative ideas. This announcement follows the opening of a competition in July under Manufacturing Made Smarter: Digital Supply Chain, where firms of all sizes can apply for up to 70% of the funding they need for industrial research projects. The government has committed to raising productivity and earning power in the UK by spending 2.4% of GDP on R&D across the UK economy by 2027. Further quotesRich Ingram, Director of funding recipient Account Management Online Ltd, said:
Chris Courtney, challenge director for Made Smarter at UK Research and Innovation, said:
Hamid Mughal, MMS Industrial Advisory Group chair said:
Notes to editorsThe Manufacturing Made Smarter Round 1 CompetitionThe Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Manufacturing Made Smarter Round 1 Competition offers grant funding investment in projects that focus on the use of industrial digital technologies (IDTs) to transform the productivity and agility of UK manufacturing. In total 34 applications were submitted, totalling approximately £100 million of total project spend. Following independent assessment and an expert review, 14 projects have progressed to start comprising £50.5 million of total project costs including £20.1 million total grant. Confirmed competition winnersGet more information about competition winners. About the Manufacturing Made Smarter Round 2 CompetitionThe ISCF Manufacturing Made Smarter: Digital Supply Chain competition offers funding for business-led consortia carrying out projects costing up to £3 million to support the research and development of innovative digital technologies, and work with technology developers and manufacturers to rethink and restructure the way they design and operate manufacturing supply chains. Application for feasibility studiesFind out more and apply for funding towards feasibility studies into digital technologies to transform supply chains in UK manufacturing. Application for industrial researchFind out more and apply for funding towards an industrial research project in digital technologies to transform supply chains in UK manufacturing.
Published 11 September 2020
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