Knowledge Centre
Browse through our collection of news, perspectives and webinars to gain a deeper understanding of the Innovate UK Business Connect culture and sector intelligence.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Predictive Maintenance
This event will explore the emergence of products and services that inform manufacturers as to when their shop floor equipment is likely to require maintenance. We will hear from both providers of these services and from manufacturers that have seen the benefits and provide a meeting place for the two communities – technology providers/developers and interested manufacturers.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Factory Floor and Production Systems
This webinar series will focus on the integrated digital production management systems within a business to deliver control and optimisation of manufacturing, product lifecycle and resource management processes.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Continuous Improvement
Capturing data to support decision making is crucial to modern continuous improvement programmes. This area of innovation is progressing at a fast pace, and in this webinar we will highlight the significant benefits of dedicated solutions in this technology area.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Web Based Customer Order Tracking
Customers want to be able to track orders to help them plan better. In this webinar we will be looking at how manufacturers can gather, process and present data from the factory in sufficient detail to give customers visibility of their orders.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Industrial Energy Efficiency
Exploring how manufacturers can gather, process, present and analyse data throughout the factory to enable rigorous management decisions regarding energy reduction is key to running an efficient factory. This webinar will explore the opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies and digital solutions targeting this area.
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Made Smarter - Innovation Network: Mass Customisation
Scaling up to mass produce a product in line with specific customer’s needs and preferences is an art! In this webinar we will explore strategies to undertake this skill keeping unit costs low.
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Revealed: the 24 innovations selected for commercial development into the UK’s £8.9billion cybersecurity sector
Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) announces the new cohort for Year 5 (2021/22) of the programme.
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Confidence - what it is, how we can all lose it sometimes and a few things you can do to feel more of it, more of the time!
“Confidence is that beautiful feeling when you know that whatever happens, you’ll be ok, you’ll handle it, you’ll cope. Even if things don’t go to plan.”
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Waste2Fresh - A Perspective by Nanofique Limited
In December 2020, Nanofique Limited, specialists in industrial wastewater treatment, founded in 2016, received funding from Horizon 2020, along with other partners in the successful Waste2Fresh project, for a smart innovative water saving solution system for the textile industry.
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Dr Ifeyinwa Kanu, Founder and CEO of IntelliDigest, shares her coaching experience as part of the Women in Innovation Programme.
“There have been tangible benefits to my business as a result of our coaching sessions!”