Key Features
The Advanced Machinery and Productivity Institute (AMPI) is an industry led initiative that will stimulate and support rapid growth of the UK’s machinery manufacturing sector as it transitions to highly integrated digital solutions with sophisticated automated and autonomous systems, helping UK based machinery developers to bring new cutting-edge & sustainable products to market.
Programme: AMPI
Award: Share of up to £750,000
Opens: 29th Sep 2023
Closes: 30th Nov 2023
The Advanced Machinery and Productivity Institute (AMPI) is an industry led initiative that will stimulate and support rapid growth of the UK’s machinery manufacturing sector as it transitions to highly integrated digital solutions with sophisticated automated and autonomous systems, helping UK based machinery developers to bring new cutting-edge & sustainable products to market.
Through UKRI’s Strength in Places Fund (SIPF), the AMPI Innovation Fund will invest up to £3 million in collaborative projects that increase the development and commercialisation of advanced machinery, related technologies, and know-how, along with a broader benefit to wider manufacturing sectors due to improved availability of advanced machinery and expertise.
Projects must focus on delivering advancements in machinery for manufacturing, be collaborative, and demonstrate innovation at an industrially relevant scale.
They should also aim to:
• develop new technology for use in a current or future products or manufacturing
• develop and disseminate best practices in technologies or processes to support industry
• demonstrate improvement in business productivity and competitiveness
• show clear benefit technically
• show clear benefit in creating or safeguarding jobs
• enhance capabilities within the broader advanced machinery industry
• demonstrate clear market opportunity, an innovative project, and a credible route to market
This fund is open to UK registered businesses with significant, technical operations in the Greater Manchester or West Yorkshire regions only. Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone. Organisations outside of these regions can participate as non-funded partners.
Projects can apply for a grant of no more than £750k (there is no limit to total project costs). They must last between 6 months and 2 years, be led by a UK registered business of any size, and contain at least one industrial company and one academic institution or RTO.
Projects must be collaborative and demonstrate innovation at an industrially relevant scale, showing support for the development of capability in relevant industries and their supply chains.
Machinery industries could include:
• Machine tool manufacturers
• Robotics manufacturers
• Other machine manufacturers
• Machine control system manufacturers
• Providers of digitalisation systems for manufacturing, including sensing and control
• Machinery subsystems manufacturers
• Automation system manufacturers
Technologies for machinery could include:
• Machine tool, robotic, and automation systems
• Advanced controllers and PLCs
• In-situ and in-process measurement systems
• Intelligent software systems
• On-machine sensor networks
• True digital twins of machinery
• Hybrid and/or reconfigurable systems
• Sustainable machine development
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