1. ICT for Manufacturing and Construction
Zoë Webster
ICT
Fionnuala Costello
Built Environment
Robin Wilson and Malcolm Hannaby
High Value Manufacturing 1

2. Project duration and budget
Projects are expected to last no more than 24 months and we expect to invest £100k-1.5m per project
£7m budget for grants from TSB
£1m budget from EPSRC

3. Scope criteria
To be in scope, applications must satisfy three criteria:
Address at least one of the four challenges set out
Involve a recent or emerging ICT development
Be within the scope of either the HVM strategy or the Construction challenges set out
Also must result in a demonstration of the innovation embedded within at least one business

4. Challenges
Applications must convincingly address at least one of the following:
Deriving and reusing knowledge
Process interactions, system interoperability and collaboration across supply chains
Engaging users in product/service design and operation
Faster, more effective innovation in product and process lifecycles

5. 1. Deriving and reusing knowledge
Acquiring, codifying, validating and retrieving
Knowledge not data
Making knowledge management easier to use and embed in processes
Improving correlations between simulations and real world performance
Example projects:
Search engine for construction
Automatic process guidance

6. 2. Process interaction, system interoperability and collaboration across supply chains
Enabling seamless integration of expertise, processes and information systems
Not just about standards development
Development of collaboration tools
Interoperability of information systems
Example projects:
An application store for manufacturing
Semantic web for construction

7. 3. Engaging users in product/service design and operation
Getting user buy-in in the early stages to encourage sustainable behaviours and success
Engaging users and incorporating their feedback throughout the process
Example projects:
Engaging computer games
Exploiting social media

8. 4. Faster, more effective innovation in product and process lifecycles
Making it easy to introduce process and product innovation
Minimising cost implications
Incorporating whole-life information into design, development and maintenance processes
Example projects:
Augmented reality on the shop floor
Exploiting automated 3D scanning

9. ICT criteria
Innovation must be in the software components of ICT and the alignment of ICT systems with people and processes

10. Breadth of ICT
Social media Augmented reality Games console interfaces Computer gaming Instrumentation and automation Simulation Search technology ……………

11. ICT criteria Recent and emerging developments in ICT
i.e. using ICTs (algorithms, approaches, techniques, etc.) that weren’t generally available 2 years ago
If it has already been applied in another sector, that is fine if you make clear the significant challenges in applying it to manufacturing/construction
This is about taking the lead, not catching up with other sectors

12. Fit with High Value Manufacturing priorities
 Publications  Strategy documents
Four pillars:
Products
Processes
Service Systems
Value Systems

13. Fit with Construction priorities
Scope
Design, build, maintenance, refurbishment and operation of buildings and infrastructure
Focus areas
Reducing energy use and carbon emissions
Adapting to the changing climate for long-term resilience
Maximising the potential of the retrofit market
Achieving design-for performance in practice

14. Partnering Aim to stimulate new, sustainable partnerships
Leading to productivity increases, wealth creation and growth in ICT, manufacturing and construction sectors
We are particularly interested in projects:
involving new partnerships
and/or
involving partners from all three sectors
Projects must be industrial/business partner led

15. Other conditions
Projects should result in a demonstration of the innovation embedded within at least one business
Academic partners can share up to 30% of total grant for a project
No more than 20% of the grant for a project may be spent on:
Data collection
Data cleansing
Standards development

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