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Made Smarter Innovation

Enabling the UK to shape the future of manufacturing

Transforming UK Manufacturing

From 2020 to 2025, Innovate UK Business Connect will be working on behalf of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to join communities together to transform UK manufacturing. Join our community and help us drive positive change.

The 2017 Made Smarter UK review stated that “the positive impact of faster innovation and adoption of IDTs could be as much as £455 billion for UK manufacturing over the next decade, increasing manufacturing sector growth between 1.5 and 3 percent per annum, creating a conservative estimated net gain of 175,000 jobs throughout the economy”.

The £300 million partnership between government and industry is aiming to create a fully connected, dynamic manufacturing ecosystem inspiring innovation across academia, technology providers and manufacturers. Made Smarter Innovation is delivered by UK Research and Innovation.

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We have a mission: to build a digital innovation ecosystem that funds and supports UK innovators and manufacturers. It’s our hope that this empowers them to validate, develop and launch their ideas.

By partnering with experts along the way, makers and digital solution companies alike can completely transform the face of manufacturing.

Through the national Made Smarter Innovation programme, we’re making it easier for these individuals to innovate using emerging technologies. Manufacturers will be able to create better, more competitive and sustainable products and processes, while digital companies can get the opportunity to develop & deploy their game-changing concepts in an exciting market.

Made Smarter Innovation

Made Smarter Innovation Network

The Made Smarter Innovation Network is a vibrant community of digital technology providers, developers and users and manufacturers. They can access investment in R&D, along with amplified collaboration opportunities across various sectors, within the UK and beyond.

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Research Centres

A £25m investment across 5 centres to identify early stage, transformative innovation ideas, covering both technological and societal aspects.

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Innovation Hubs

Made Smarter Innovation Hubs are a national network of facilities available to the manufacturing industry collaboratively developing novel digital solutions for key manufacturing challenges through a network of test beds.

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Digital Accelerators

The Made Smarter Technology Accelerator isn’t just an initiative – it’s a catalyst. It brings together makers and innovative startups and scaleups to swiftly develop technology prototypes. The aim? To tackle some of our most widespread manufacturing challenges.

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Collaborative R&D

Powerful collaborations solving the biggest challenges to develop industry ready digital solutions.

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Innovation Case Studies

Innovation Case Study - Photocentric

Innovation Case Study - Spinks and BACS

Innovation Case Study - Matta, Batch Works & Plus X

Innovation Case Study - BAE Systems & Machine Intelligence

Innovation Case Study - Intellium AI

Innovation Case Study - HAL Robotics

Innovation Case Study - DM²

Innovation Case Study - Devtank

Innovation Case Study - Deep.Meta

Innovation Case Study - Cranswick & Singular Intelligence

Innovation Case Study - ARGUS

Innovation Case Study - Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs)

Innovation Case Study: ALECS – Articulated Lightweight Electrically-assisted Cargo Solution

Innovation Case Study - CarbonVue

Innovation Case Study - The Digital Sandwich

Innovation Case Study - The Digital Spare Parts Supply Chain (DSPSC)

Innovation Case Study - Trace Connected

Innovation Case Study - SORT-IT

A Sand Core Component Printed From a 3D Printing Machine

Innovation Case Study - Raplas’ 3D printing

Innovation Case Study: Optimising the design process of custom vans using Virtual Reality (VR)

Innovation Case Study - GE Spares

Innovation Case Study - Ryobi

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Made Smarter Innovation: Challenge Brochure

See here for the Made Smarter Innovation Brochure, featuring a varied range of Challenge projects, partners and case studies to date

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