4. Mission
Provide a distinctive response to current trends, drivers and opportunities in
manufacturing which add up to a “fourth industrial revolution”. Focused on helping
manufacturing SMEs to innovate.
KTN are well placed to add great value, building on our:
- Remit
- Impartiality
- Knowledge and connections across various enablers of manufacturing innovation
- Extensive previous engagement with manufacturing SMEs
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7. Connecting the landscape
A few of the initiatives we’ve been connecting with
• Innovate UK competitions; Innovate 2016 (and 2017!)
• “Digital 4 Industry” Leadership Group to steer the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• Malcolm Harold is contributing to the Juergen Maier report for BEIS for the IDR
• HVM Catapult SME (out)reach
• HVM & Digital Catapult programme on tools for 4th IR
• Through-Life Engineering Services Council
• The Manufacturer Servitization conference
• “The Future of British Manufacturing” (Autodesk, The Manufacturer)
• IET “Horizontal Innovation”
• Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
• Industry 4.0 Summit
• Immerse (KTN’s AR-VR network)
• Private investment firms
• Development of a DLR – Digital Readiness Level
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8. • S.Yorkshire – NPL, Huddersfield Uni, Sheffield Hallam, Digital Catapult
• NorthEast Automotive Alliance; Sunderland Uni maintenance network
• Scottish Enterprise – (plus Zero Waste Scotland, SMAS…)
• LCR 4.0 (£4.5m ERDF programme, Liverpool city region)
• Manchester Uni
• EEN (Innovate 2 Succeed)
• HVM Catapult SME reach
• Midlands Engine
• Manchester, Cheshire, and other Growth Hubs
• EEF 4th IR events
• Venturefest/Innovate local
• Large companies – helping their local supply chain
• Others in discussion
Regional reach
Organisations/clusters that are keen to work with us
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9. Results fed into Innovate UK & national strategies
Innovatio
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Innovatio
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Innovatio
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Innovatio
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Innovatio
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Universities
Partners –
solution
providers
& other funding
Partners –
value chain
Other support
- growth hubs,
UKTI,
SMAS…
SMEmanufacturers
(Reactive,vulnerable,confused)
Manufacturers
(Prosperous,productive,proactive)
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The SME journey
11. Getting businesses started on the road to the 4th Industrial revolution
• A pilot project of face to face meetings in the factory with about 60 SMEs
• Simple diagnostic step-by-step approach against Industry 4.0 core themes
• KTN signposts to providers for support or helps facilitate any bigger
projects identified
• KTN tracks the journey and provides ongoing support
• Outcomes focused on innovation, productivity gain and cost reduction
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12. The KTN approach
• Work with relevant KTN staff and external contractors to roll out the pilot.
• Walk around the manufacturing site, understand how the business works
and what it’s trying to achieve.
• Accept incremental development/improvement is also a valid start and the
way to engage more companies.
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13. The KTN approach
1. Assessment of company “4M readiness” or 4MRL + innovation needs
2. Create bespoke roadmap using the KTN approach
3. Identify and prioritise projects in conjunction with their ROI expectations. Try to balance
company progression.
4. Agree collaboration + delivery partners
5. Measure baseline for each project
6. Implement
7. Measure changes in 4M readiness and benefits
8. Re visit company 4M readiness road-map -Try to develop next project to raise through the
“stages” and progress to a fully integrated and connected manufacturing company
9. Generate success story/case study
18. Barriers
Feedback from AMRC workshop
• Where do we start?
• Lack of definitions, standards, glossary
• Where can I see it?
• What is government doing?
“Digital4Manufacturing: Start Here”
AMRC, Sheffield - Feb 2017
19. Barriers
Feedback from AMRC workshop
• Where do we start?
• Lack of definitions, standards, glossary
• Where can I see it?
• What is government doing?
“Digital4Manufacturing: Start Here”
AMRC, Sheffield - Feb 2017
20. Barriers
Feedback from AMRC workshop, Feb 2017
• “Where do we start?”
• Lack of definitions, standards, glossary
• “Where can I see it?”
• “What is government doing?”
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21. Quotes: Stretching the SMEs
“The process enables the business to take stock and evaluate what we do and more
importantly what we can do”
[The support] “has helped us to firm up our future plans for the development of our
software systems. We have a better understanding of the importance of integrating with
our customers systems.”
[The tracker was] “very useful and assists us with our development for growth and
expanding our knowledge base. Identifies gaps we have so supports our strategy to
develop our skills and services.”
[The support] “provided focus on areas of opportunity that could provide greater
efficiencies and cost savings.”
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22. Quotes: One-to-one engagement
“Personally, always prefer face to face discussions, especially when being introduced to
something new.”
“Preference for us is to always engage with a person, you get far more value through
discussions and thought provoking questions asked by the interviewer, much better
than a soulless online assessment.”
“KTN support has been first class.”
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23. TCP case study
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Total Control Pro
• SME providing track and trace software for manufacturing companies
• Low cost solutions to knowing where your products are in the factory and
controlling their start and finish dates.
• Intro to Premier Work Spaces to track national assets and their inventory
• Door manufacture
• Loughborough Uni and a 4month PhD research project
• New application to Design Foundations competition from Innovate UK
25. Conclusions
1. Many SMEs have not heard of 4th IR, yet engaging them is critical
2. Some have heard of it but unsure where to start or whom to speak
with
3. One-to-one support is important
– The framework we’ve developed works
– SMEs need help linking to commercial solutions, Catapults, academia
etc.
4. Many solution providers are SMEs themselves
5. “4Manufacturing” resonates
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26. M&M3
• The application process is now all online
• Pre registration has now gone
• Next workshop event will be in Cardiff on 21st June 2017
• A webcast is available on our website
• Round 1 had 990 registrations and 220 projects funded
• Round 2 had 600 registrations and 220 projects funded
• The £15 million is split into: £5million for projects less than 12 months
duration, £5million for projects between 12 and 24 months duration and £5
million for projects up to 36 months duration
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27. M&M3
• The questions have changed and so has their order but the intent is
exactly the same.
• Really understand the guidance to applicants as this is also what the
assessors use.
• Use the appendices well and follow the rules for which answers can use
them.
• Reference the appendices and make sure an assessor can follow the
answer into the further detail in the appendices.
• Label the appendices
• Check what projects were funded from round 1 that is now publically
available
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28. M&M3 and AMSCI
• Listen to a previous webcast at
https://ktn.adobeconnect.com/p31coqcw9paa/
• Passcode 5432
• In addition to Innovate competitions and the SME instrument, do consider
AMSCI if appropriate:
• https://www.financebirmingham.com/amsci/wmlcr/
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29. Thank you
KTN - The UK’s innovation network
• Linking innovators to knowledge and partners
• Providing access to funding & support
• Influencing the priorities
Ben Peace - Knowledge Transfer Manager, Sustainable Manufacture
ben.peace@ktn-uk.org 07801 226431 @BenPeace
Malcolm Harold - Knowledge Transfer Manager, Digital and
Manufacturing
Malcolm.harold@ktn-uk.org
www.ktn-uk.org
@KTNUK
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31. • Run by the Metallurgy and Materials School in UoB
• £6m budget over duration (50% ERDF & 50% UoB funded)
• Target of 180 supported SMEs
• Project runs until 31/05/2019
• 4 Local Enterprise Partnership areas:
• Greater Birmingham & Solihull
• Black Country
• Coventry & Warwickshire
• The Marches
AMCASH project highlights
32. • Metallurgy and Materials school to engage more
with local businesses
• AMCASH is a way for businesses to try out services
available
• Longer-term collaborative projects between local
businesses, Metallurgy and Materials and the
University as a whole
Aims of project
33. Metallurgy and Materials
• Provides an understanding of how materials behave and
how they can be used and improved; essential to the
development of new products
• Mission: To maintain Metallurgy and Materials Science at
the University of Birmingham as world class teaching and
research activities, to develop interdisciplinarity with
engineering and science and to further the aim of
Sustainable Development
34. AMCASH support available
• 2 days work for qualifying SMEs in one of the themed areas
• No cost to the SME (State Aid applicable)
• Wide range of support ranging from access to expertise
and equipment to consultancy
35. Polymers
primarily concerns the effect of chemical structure, processing
methods and morphology on the thermal and mechanical
properties of polymers
Electron Microscopy
Microstructure evaluation, Micro-analysis and Mechanical
testing of metals, alloys, ceramics and composites using
unique characterisation facilities
Modelling
Advanced materials simulation and manufacturing modelling
Main themes
36. • Access to R&D facilities
• Analytical services
• Mechanical testing
• Software simulation of metallic alloys
• Consultancy
• Training
• Collaborative projects
• Contract research
What do we offer to Business?
37. • Polymers: 2 full-time technical staff with 1 lead academic
• Microscopy: 2 full-time technical staff with 1 lead academic
• Modelling: 2 full-time technical staff with 1 lead academic
• Business Engagement: 2 full-time staff
• Project Management: 1 full-time staff
• Project Director
All staff are dedicated to AMCASH project
Team structure
38. • Polymers: mechanical strength testing of car
components, equestrian equipment and sports
goods
• Microscopy: closer looks at contamination on
medical equipment, close ups of human hair for an
eyebrow company
• Modelling: predicting strength performance of
alloys at high temperature, simulating
performance of plastic construction materials
Examples of support so far
39. • Small/Medium Enterprise
• < 250 full time or equivalent employees
• < €50m turnover or < €43m balance sheet
• Based in eligible Local Enterprise Partnership
• Greater Birmingham and Solihull
• Coventry and Warwickshire
• Black Country
• The Marches
Qualifying criteria
43. Innovation Engine
What we do
Provide free support to local
SMEs to help them develop
innovate products in
healthcare, transport and
sustainability
What we need
Local SMEs with great
ideas/businesses to
collaborate with
What we offer
12 hours minimum free
consultancy for your business
Our USP
People, knowledge, skills and
facilities you would find it hard
to otherwise access
45. Naomi Green
Research Fellow, University of Birmingham
n.c.green@bham.ac.uk
0121 414 5072
@NaomiGreen
Please Contact Us to Discuss
Opportunities to Work
Together
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• Expertise in wide variety of technical areas
• Focus on clarity and transparency
• Commercially relevant advice
• Open and approachable service
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48. We can help you identify, protect and exploit your company’s IP rights such as:
•Patents – technical innovations
•Designs – appearance or aesthetic quality
•Copyright – range of works: software, website content
•Trademarks – branding of a company
Do you know what your competitors are doing and how it could affect your company?
affect your company?
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Get in touch: free training and initial consultation for new clients
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52. Knowledge Transfer Secondment (KTS)
Aim: Transferring knowledge through
secondments
Seconding University staff to external
organisations
Seconding staff from external organisations
into the University
53. Who benefits from a KTS?
Outward secondees’: postgraduate researchers, postdoctoral
researchers, technical/experimental officers/ permanent
members of academic staff.
Inward secondees’ may be any relevant employee of a user
organisation.
Any number of secondees’ may be included.
54. Benefits for lead PI’s..
Leverage secured contributes to achieving funding targets
Developed networks with industry
Maximising the impact of your research
Achieving a strategic target for the University
Personal and professional development
55. Outward secondments
The KTS will support:
KTS - up to 75% of the outward secondees’ salaries,
superannuation and NI contributions
reasonable travel and subsistence costs as necessary to support
the secondees’
up to 50% of the costs of consumables
For outward secondments, the User Organisation will be
expected to provide:
25% or more of the secondees’ salaries, superannuation and NI
contributions
appropriate infrastructure and equipment
to enable the secondees’ project work
50% or more of the cost of consumables
56. Inwards secondments
The KTS will support:
KTS- up to 75% of the inward secondees’ salaries,
exclusive of pension and NI contributions
reasonable travel and subsistence costs as
necessary to support the secondees’
reasonable research consumables
For inward secondments, the User Organisation
will be expected to provide:
25% or more of the secondees’ salaries and 100%
of their pension and NI contributions
57. KTS funds may not be used for..
Estates or Indirect costs associated with
the secondee(s) or for equipment costs.
Any costs involved in the management
/supervision of seconded staff.
58. Secondment terms
To work more than 20hrs per week, PhD students, would have
to have completed their thesis before the secondment begins
but do not have to have had their viva or been awarded their
degree.
Broad remit: industry, includes UK based spin-outs, government
departments, NHS, non-profits. Not HE/Schools or for public
engagement.
KTS funds may not be used for Estates or Indirect costs
associated with the secondee(s) or for equipment/management
/supervision costs.
Secondments from 6 weeks to 2 years/ full/P/T.
59. KTS Impact
Metric Value
New Collaborations 8
Patent applications 4
Publications 4
Jobs (new & safeguarded) 5.2
Subsequent funding applications £4,25 M
Spin outs 2
Data from 10 projects funded by the EPSRC
between 2008 - 2012
60. Funding range
KTS - £10k - £50k
All spend must be complete by March 2020
Application process for the KTS Scheme
Calls quarterly
Next deadline – 26.6.17
Complete the form available online
Please read the guidance notes
61. Help available
Guidance notes
Research support Teams
Anthony Khan, Research Development Officer,
Research Innovation Services x 47093/
a.khan.7@bham.ac.uk
63. 1.8 million UK students
spend £1bn and >0.5bn
hours commuting 7.5bn
miles to campus each
year
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/students-spending-millions-
commuting/2005786.article
http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/facts-and-stats/Pages/higher-education-data.aspx
78. Innovating in healthcare to meet modern day needs
• People are living longer…but the body is gradually failing over that time
• Not yet able to completely regenerate the body
• Materials engineering plays a pivotal role in our bid to repair/regenerate the body.
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79. Innovating in healthcare to meet modern day needs
“OLD”, but known to work
e.g. PMMA cements
Set at 70-90°C
inside the body Amazing pre-clinical data!
Dead end – limited reagent supply
Pyrophosphate
Modified
Brushite
Cement
Non-
Modified
Brushite
Cement
3 6 12
TIME (MONTHS)
Pyrophosphate
Modified
Brushite
Cement
Non-
Modified
Brushite
Cement
3 6 12
TIME (MONTHS)
“NEW”, too many unknowns
New bone cement
Trying to move on from these Hitting barriers due to novelty
How can we
innovate??
• But innovating can be challenging….
80. Generating innovative technologies and moving
them to the clinic
Sheet Soft solid blocks Viscous fluid
• Exploiting polymers already well used in the food industry (gellan, alginate) or
already FDA/MHRA
• We can tailor handling properties by physical processing. No change in chemical
composition
• Likely to have a good safety profile. Scale up manufacture technology already
exists
81. Generating innovative technologies and moving
them to the clinic
• Same technology formulated into two products to deliver an anti-scarring molecule
Wound dressing to prevent skin scarring Eyedrop to prevent corneal scarring
• From proof of concept to clinical trial in 3 years. Eyedrop will go to trial in 2017
82. Challenges in getting innovations to clinic
Lots of challenges to navigate…most can be grouped under ‘manufacturing’
• Short supply of small-medium scale contract manufacturing organisations
(CMOs)
• Novel materials often require new manufacturing approaches. CMOs can be
(rightly) cautious about this. Be prepared to design, commission and educate
them on your own process!
• Sterilisation methods? Quality Control methods? Most CMOs don’t have the
same vast facilities a University does.
• Supply chain logistics – you may find multiple specialist companies to address
these issues collectively, but feasibility depends on stability/shelf-life of the product
• Avoid “paralysis by over-analysis” – balance ’good science’ with pragmatic and
simple tests to answer go/no-go points in projects
83. Innovating in manufacture – risk reduction is key
• Designed and built our
own manufacturing
process
• Inspired by the food
industry
• Commissioned at a ‘GMP-
simulation’ lab under the
watch of our CMO
• Earned CMO’s trust in the
process.
• Process transferred – first
clinical grade products
end of 2017
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84. Healthcare Technology Institute
Providing support to academics and local SMEs with interests in the
medical technology sector to make sure new technologies don’t fail
A new facility for accelerating impact
and stimulating World-Class basic
research.
Scheduled to open Aug/Sept 2017.
Free to access if
you are an SME
within the
GBSLEP area
85. Healthcare Technology Institute
Medical
materials
and devices
Industrial Push Clinical Pull
Intellectual
Property
Manufacturing
considerations Regulation
Cost
• We also want to support new manufacturing and processing methods to bring new
materials to the medical technology sector
• Practical support and advice in converting science into a finished
product ready for clinical trial
Scientific support
86. What we need/want
Need companies on ‘speed dial’ for contract work:
• Contract medical packing
• Contract manufacturing / prototyping
• Precision engineering (making bespoke small scale manufacturing lines)
• Food / pharma grade clean rooms
• Consultants (pharmaceuticals. Medical devices, ISO accreditation)
Want to support new technologies potentially underpinning future healthcare
products:
• Packaging technology (‘smart’ packaging, green packaging)
• Moulding/machining of novel polymers and alloys for medical use
Getting the word out about the service:
Got a new material or product concept? Developing methods of processing materials?
Bring your project to us!
87. Why work with us?
• The Institute was built upon experience – not just a sum of technical expertise
on paper. Are translating technologies into products and taking them to clinic.
• Can empathise with the pressures healthcare tech SMEs – tight budget and
huge pressure to deliver a product as soon as possible
• Bigger picture – we want to facilitate growth in the life sciences/medical
technology economy. Manufacturing knowhow and capability in the local area is
essential to help deliver innovations to the clinic.
• Not in the GBSLEP? Materials development / manufacturing – if you are thinking
of expanding into the medical sector, get in touch…
88. In time, we would love to be able to say…
Developed in Birmingham,
Made in Birmingham,
Trialed in Birmingham.
