What are the UK’s biggest digital manufacturing challenges?

Posted on 15 Mar 2017 by Jonny Williamson

Digital Catapult and Innovate UK have announced an ‘Industry 4.0, Hack & Pitch’, an initiative asking SMEs to identify innovative solutions that will positively disrupt UK manufacturing and help combat some of the industry’s biggest challenges.

The Industry 4.0 Hack & Pitch aims to enhance collaboration between industry and innovative SMEs, fostering new ideas to improve productivity and the creation of new solutions regarding the UK’s biggest digital manufacturing challenges. Manufacturing currently contributes more than £6.7tn to the global economy, but, as Chancellor Philip Hammond reiterated in his Spring Budget speech…

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