High Value Manufacturing Catapult
For future projects, the HVMC are looking at the following:
Net Zero
- Addressing the means of quantifying, tracking and auditing the emissions across the through life value chain
- Transformation of the Engineering processes (inc ‘Design for Sustainability’)
- Digitalisation of supply chains to reduce food waste
- Developing technologies for disassembly, reuse, remanufacture, recycling, and urban mining
- Reducing carbon footprint of legacy building for their remaining life
- Alternative proteins production, to provide consumers with low carbon options
The Nuclear AMRC, one of HVMC’s seven centres, is especially keen to support projects in :-
- Joining of high temperature materials
- Advanced machining of nuclear-grade alloys
- Modular design and construction of nuclear power plants
Health and Wellbeing
- Digital Pharma Factory of the Future – drive standardisation and adoption of digital medicines manufacturing technology
- Support the development, optimisation and scale-up of candidate vaccines.
- Provide key enablers to support the NHS plans for decarbonisation of its facilities, services, and supply chains.
- Grow the capabilities of the Internet of Medical Things C3-Cloud for enabling effective real-time remote patient care
- Provide design, manufacturing and product innovation to support the UK industrial base in medical devices.
Resilience
- Developing the methods, tools, associated data analytics and partnerships to map UK supply chains
- Conduct scenario planning of current and future supply base demands to target UK intervention opportunities that will increase national resilience.
- Design, manufacturing and product innovation to support targeted UK interventions, for example: Innovative tooling design and manufacture for the creation of tooling for composites manufacture to re-shore the industrial capability.
The MTC, one of HVMC’s seven centres, is especially keen to support projects across all three themes in:
- Automation and robotics
- Additive manufacturing
- Laser processing
- Modelling
- Cybersecurity
- Metrology and Non-Destructive Testing
For interest in any of these topics, email mike.hinton@hvm.catapult.org.uk or please visit the HVMC website for further information.