Digital transformation on a shoestring

Posted on 15 Dec 2022 by The Manufacturer

Four years ago, Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring was started by a team at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge. Kate Price Thomas, the programme’s Marketing and Engagement Lead, tells us how Shoestring solutions have been deployed in 14 companies, helping them to start to digitalise the low-cost way.

In 2018, we established Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring in partnership with the University of Nottingham, a number of industrial supporters, and with initial funding from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Our aim was to try and help small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) to start digitalising; particularly those who didn’t know…

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