Made Smarter has introduced the launch of an extra £1 million in funding to help SMEs within the North West, UK with their adoption of superior applied sciences, together with additive manufacturing (AM).
The Authorities-backed digital adoption programme, which has been driving digital transformation within the area since 2018 and has funded 334 expertise tasks so far, is providing match-funded grants of as much as £20,000 to assist SMEs undertake applied sciences together with AM, robotics, automation, the Web of Issues (IoT) and synthetic intelligence (AI).
Donna Edwards, Programme Director for Made Smarter North West, stated: “We at the moment are coming into our seventh 12 months of equipping North West producers with the know-how and confidence to embrace the subsequent industrial revolution. Via skilled help and funding, we’re enabling companies to unlock productiveness, speed up development, decarbonise operations, and create high-value, future-ready jobs.
“The economic panorama is evolving quickly, and digital transformation is not non-obligatory. We encourage any producer that hasn’t but began their journey to take step one.”
Companies who register to the programme shall be given entry to a collection of help together with absolutely funded expertise recommendation, digital roadmap growth, management and expertise coaching, and scholar placement alternatives. Made Smarter’s investments are anticipated to extend the area’s GVA by £242 million, create 1,300 new jobs and upskill 2,500 present roles.
A number of UK additive manufacturing-focused corporations have already benefitted from Made Smarter funding. Again in October, Additive Manufacturing Options, FDM Digital Options and Fusion Implants every secured backing from the programme to allow funding in new applied sciences.