Connected Digital Additive Manufacturing

Key Features

Innovate UK is investing up to £4.5 million in collaborative industrial research projects that stimulate innovation in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing.

Programme:     Innovate UK

Award:     up to £1 million

Opens: 9th May 2016

Closes: 27th Jul 2016

! This scheme is now closed

Projects must have a significant innovation step in both of the following complementary areas:

  • additive manufacturing
  • connected digital manufacturing

Your project must focus on one or more of these 4 priority topics:

  1. novel additive manufacturing build process with a viable route to market for UK-based machine platform manufacture
  2. large-scale build platforms with a build size in metres with a viable route to market for UK-based machine platform manufacture
  3. automation, predictability and cost reduction in the pre and post-process material supply and finishing activities. Projects must show a significant improvement to the overall AM process chain productivity
  4. innovative hybrid or interrupted AM processes and/or their integration with the adjacent process(es)

 

  • a UK-based business must lead a project
  • be planning to carry out your project in the UK
  • work with at least one other business on this project
  • have an innovation project that will last no more than 3 years
  • have an innovation project that focuses on industrial research