Made Smarter Adoption North East

Made Smarter Adoption North East can help your manufacturing business become more efficient, more productive and more competitive by investing in digital tools.

Get hands on help to develop a digital roadmap for your business – wherever you’re at on your digital journey
Access specialist training and workshops on digital transformation, road mapping, process mapping, leadership development and industrial cyber security
Grants of up to *£3,500 to access expert technical advice
Grants of up to *£20,000 to help you purchase and implement new software and/ or equipment (up to 50% of the overall cost)

*Grants are subject to availability upon completion of the three programme workshops

Workshops

Join three workshops to help you on your digitalisation journey – now recruiting to two upcoming cohorts starting this Spring (14 May) and Autumn (TBC).

Business & Digitalisation Strategy

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This workshop will help you:

Identify key priority areas in your business that would benefit from digital technology adoption.

Analyse the impact and return on investment the planned adoption will have

Understand your development goals and set clear timescales

Establish what resources and capabilities are required, including physical assets, financial, and human

Lean Thinking & Process Mapping

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This workshop will help you:

Understand waste vs value. Identify “the seven wastes” in lean manufacturing: transport, inventories, motions, waiting, over production, over processing, and defects

Map wastes in your processes and identify opportunities to apply Industrial Digital Technology to improve outcomes within the value stream

Understand what advanced technology is available and how it can be adopted

Change & Project Management

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This workshop will help you:

Explain how digitalisation will be implemented in your business, considering the psychology of change, stakeholder analysis, and change management

Develop an approach to project management, including budget and timeframes

Create a road map to implementation to ensure the adoption of the new technology is quickly accepted and embedded

If your business is losing time and money trying to resolve reoccurring issues such as machine downtime, is struggling to meet customer demand, if manual tasks are causing delays or you lack the right data to support decisions, digital technology could be the solution.

Made Smarter Adoption North East is backed by world-renowned businesses and the UK government. It aims to drive growth amongst the region’s manufacturing businesses and advance the UK economy by improving the development and adoption of emerging technologies. The North East Growth Hub and Tees Valley Combined Authority are working with Made Smarter to deliver Made Smarter Adoption North East in the North East Combined Authority and Tees Valley Combined Authority areas. You can find out more about the wider Made Smarter offer here.

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Workshops

Business & Digitalisation Strategy

Lean Thinking & Process Mapping

Change & Project Management

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