Digital Innovation Fund
Support to help you transform your manufacturing business
Made Smarter Innovation - Smart Manufacturing Data Hub (SMDH) provided three different funding opportunities to support manufacturing small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) on their smart manufacturing journey.
These opportunities included:
Lighthouse funding - aimed to develop already proven digital products and processes into readily accessible solutions which meet the needs of manufacturing SMEs. Grant funding of up to £150,000 per project.
Virtual testbed funding - aimed to provide financial support and opportunities to bring pre-existing testbeds to the SMDH community and enable SMEs to utilise them. Grant funding of up to £100,000 per project.
Rapid Demonstrators funding - aimed to support SMEs with sensor installation, data analysis or similar to enable levelling-up the opportunities for SMEs to exceed and expand. Grant funding of up to £50,000 per project.
All funding calls have now closed.
Find out more about the SMDH Digital Innovation Fund.
First published 3 October 2023