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The Ventilator Challenge: 4 hvm connect Two months of success CPI joins national taskforce to 12 Your quarterly high value manufacturing update develop COVID-19 vaccine Restarting operations? 14 We live in unprecedented times. In generation- Work safety culture doesn’t defining moments such as this, we are all happen by accident judged by our actions. Whether by following measures, delivering key NEWS supplies or by supporting the frontline, we all have a role to play in helping flatten the viral NMIS appoints first CEO 3

curve and enabling our NHS to cope with the HVM Catapult CEO defers retirement 3 Rosa Wilkinson sudden influx of patients. AMRC rising to the ventilator 6 Communications The HVM Catapult and wider manufacturing Director challenge HVM Catapult community have played a vital role in the national response to the COVID-19 outbreak. In MTC develops intubation shield to 8 protect NHS staff this edition of HVM Connect, we look at how HVM Catapult Centres have been using their Navigating the deisgn to manufacture 9 insight, connections and facilities to support the journey national effort whether that’s in the development WMG helps British taskforce with new 9 of new products, creation of vital PPE or, of non-invasive ventilator course, in scaling up the manufacture of the life- NCC prints protective face shields for 10 saving ventilators our hospitals need. Bristol hospitals I’m pleased to say that the work we are doing is AMRC 3D prints protective face 11 not just about responding to today’s demands. shields for NHS workers We know that even when we emerge from the MTC provides free face shield design 13 crisis, our manufacturers will face significant to combat coronavirus challenges in a world that could look and feel Low-oxygen scuba rebreather 15 very different. The good news is that the HVM repurposed to help coronavirus Catapult’s teams are already gearing up to patients ensure that firms are match fit when they step Manufacturing the future workforce 16 out into the ‘new normal’ that will follow this period of lock down. SUPPORT

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give the room to think about new ways of Work with us 18 doing things. It can also allow time to forge relationships with new partners. Through this crisis, the UK’s engineering firms have already shown the amazing results they can deliver. Keep up to date Helping them to connect even better with the Get all the latest news from the HVM Catapult: UK’s world-leading research base will help them @HVM_Catapult to shine even more brightly on the global stage. linkedin.com/company/ The HVM Catapult is committed to helping high-value-manufacturing-catapult/ them to do so. hvm.catapult.org.uk

2 High Value Manufacturing Catapult HVM CONnecT NMIS appoints first CEO he National Manufacturing T Institute Scotland, the overarching group for our centre the AFRC, has announced that John Reid HVM Catapult CEO has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer to lead the growth and development of defers retirement the world-leading industry- led manufacturing research D ick Elsy, Chief Executive I want to play my full part in and development facilities Officer of the High Value mobilising the outstanding at the heart of the Advanced Manufacturing Catapult, has resources of the High Value Manufacturing Innovation announced that he will defer his Manufacturing Catapult to District Scotland led by planned retirement to support underpin their success until the Renfrewshire Council. the manufacturing sector’s situation stabilises and I can response to the coronavirus hand over to a successor.” John will take up position outbreak. in August after successfully Responding to Mr Elsy’s leading the Michelin-Scotland Mr Elsy announced in announcement, Allan Cook, Innovation Parc (MSIP) in January that he would retire CBE, Chair of the High Value Dundee. Prior to leading from the HVM Catapult in Manufacturing Catapult said: MSIP John held the position August this year. Yesterday, “I am delighted that Dick has of General Manager at the in response to challenges UK generously decided to defer Michelin tyre plant on the manufacturers will face during his departure from the High same site. the coronavirus outbreak, Dick Value Manufacturing Catapult. confirmed that he would defer His decision is typical of Dick’s John’s appointment his retirement to support the commitment to HVMC and the further strengthens the national response to the virus. wider manufacturing sector. leadership team for the group, He said: “Coronavirus His deep understanding of UK which includes the new manufacturing and his tireless flagship facility being built presents immense challenges for the UK’s manufacturers. passion for supporting the next to Glasgow Airport that sector’s businesses through was recently granted planning In the short term they will be called on to step up to supply innovation are vital qualities at permission by Renfrewshire a time when companies are Council. the nation’s needs at an extraordinary moment in our facing exceptional demands history. Looking further ahead, and an uncertain future READ MORE they will need to be strong to economy.” weather the shock that the virus has given our economy. read more

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The Ventilator Challenge: Two months of success

entilatorChallengeUK, device. The ventilator received paraPAC plus™ ventilator with V the consortium of UK MHRA approval on 15 April three brand-new production aerospace, automotive and 2020, becoming the first newly sites established in the past medical businesses that has adapted ventilator design to be 8 weeks at GKN Aerospace’s come together to produce at- given regulatory authorisation facilities at Luton and at Cowes scale medical ventilators for the as part of the UK Government’s and Rolls Royce at Filton. NHS, celebrated two-months fight against COVID19. In total, the 33-strong since it was formed last week. As well as producing the consortium has seen over Led by our very own Dick Penlon Prima ESO2 device, 5,500 people working around Elsy, the Consortium has VentilatorChallengeUK has the clock across nine sites focused its efforts on scaling also supported Smiths Group to deliver both models of up production of two devices in scaling up the delivery of its ventilator into the NHS. since its formation on 19th Together, Penlon and March 2020. One an existing Smiths would ordinarily design made by Smiths Group, have combined capacity to the other a new device based produce between 50 and 60 on an adaptation of existing ventilators per week. Today technology from Oxfordshire- the consortium is producing based Penlon. between 100-200 of the VentilatorChallengeUK has combined units per day as worked closely with Penlon to it seeks to deliver increased modify and scale up production ventilator capacity to the UK. of its Penlon Prima ES02

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We have covered an incredible amount of ground in the two months since the Consortium was formed. The progress we have made is testament to the effort and energy brought to the challenge by every member of the VentilatorChallengeUK Consortium team. They have never wavered in their determination to make sure AMRC rising to that our NHS always has the number of ventilators it needs to treat this virus. the ventilator Although the UK is widely accepted to have passed the peak of infections in this first challenge phase of the pandemic, we are continuing to uturistic headsets pandemic reaches its peak and scale up our production F programmed to enable risks overwhelming the ability capabilities to make sure skilled aerospace and of NHS doctors and nurses to that there is always a automotive production line treat a sudden surge in patients entilator available when a operatives to rapidly switch to suffering from the virus. The patient needs it should a the manufacture of 10,000 life- industrial consortium, Ventilator second wave strike the UK. saving medical ventilators were Challenge UK, came together I look forward to seeing rushed from the Advanced after the Prime Minister, Boris VentilatorChallengeUK Manufacturing Research Johnson, made a plea for an deliver even more ventilators Centre (AMRC), part of the High additional 50,000 ventilators to over the coming weeks.” Value Manufacturing (HVM) be delivered to the NHS within Catapult, to sites across the UK a matter of weeks. DIck Elsy last week. At the same time, Under the leadership of CEO, HVM Catapult AMRC Cymru was turned into the HVM Catapult, the AMRC a production facility for the and the Nuclear AMRC are at devices. the heart of a multi-faceted The augmented reality campaign to deliver the For more information and equipment is critical to the additional ventilators, the first press enquiries, please visit the success of a powerful industrial of which will be coming off VentilatorChallengeUK website. consortium which has come production lines around the together to accelerate the UK as early as next week, Find out more production of thousands of according to the Chancellor ventilators before the Covid-19 of the Duchy of Lancaster,

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Michael Gove. The consortium is focusing production on two existing ventilator designs which meet the high-level specification for a Rapidly Manufactured Ventilator System (RMVS) developed by clinicians and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Dick Elsy, CEO of the HVM Catapult, which has seven centres across the UK including the AMRC and the Nuclear AMRC said: “What we are seeing here is a truly collaborative, to fit with the government’s used to fast track the training international effort, with the prescribed classification of operatives, while allowing best and brightest engineering criteria. In the two weeks them to keep a safe distance and manufacturing brains following the challenge, the from one another in line with coming together to rally all their Nuclear AMRC registered Covid-19 guidance. Microsoft resources in response to the over 90 enquiries. These were tasked Professor Scott with distress signal from the NHS.” then filtered to produce a coordinating their deployment Within hours of the focused and directly tangible across the country in the Prime Minister laying down suite of proposals to assess response to the government’s his ventilator challenge, support from both within the Ventilator Challenge. The the AMRC and Nuclear Nuclear AMRC, the AMRC, our high-tech equipment – initially AMRC were taking scores stakeholder community and designed for use in gaming –- of requests for assistance, the Fit for Nuclear supply-chain will be delivered with additional not just for ventilators, but network.” software provided by an AMRC also for medical equipment Manufacture of the partner, the US-based global such as face masks and ventilators will be scaled up at augmented reality specialist swabs and vials for Covid-19 AMRC Cymru in Broughton in PTC. test kits. To make sense North Wales in collaboration Rather than putting of this, the Nuclear AMRC with automotive giant Ford. wearers of the headset in generated a communications The facility was recently a fully computer-generated log to streamline the most opened by the First Minister world, as virtual reality does, appropriate support by of Wales, , HoloLens allows users to identifying those with the whose government invested place 3D digital models in the capability to best produce £20m in the state-of-the-art room alongside them; users key products and sub-level R&D operation to support can walk around the objects components. the retention of Airbus wing they create and interact with Professor Steve Jones, manufacture in the region and them using gestures, gaze and Chief Technology Officer at the 6,000 highly skilled aerospace voice. Nuclear AMRC said: engineers. “This information was To enable rapid Find out more refined and characterised acceleration of production HoloLens headsets will be

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MTC develops intubation shield to protect NHS staff

ngineers at the MTC chief executive Dr may also be useful for other E Manufacturing Technology Clive Hickman said: medical procedures beyond Centre have developed a “The acrylic shields with COVID-19 treatment.” fast-make shield to protect access panels for medical staff Technical design packs front line NHS staff involved are manufactured as complete of the Intubation Shield are in the intubation procedure for units or can be produced as already available for download COVID-19 patients needing flat-pack self-assembly kits. in a flat-pack and fabricated linked up to ventilators. The shield has undergone version. Further technical The protective shields, several design changes during packs, including drawings and developed in collaboration its rapid development following assembly instructions, are with medical experts and trials in three hospitals and set be published in the near industrial partners Rolls- extended trials at a further future. Royce PLc, Aston Martin and seven hospitals. Feedback Multimatic, with wider support from medical professionals from Innovate UK, have been suggests that the shields can Download Here developed from prototype to be used during the intubation manufacture in less than a and extubation processes, and week. The MTC and associated partners are in the process of manufacturing the first batch of 1,000 units and is also working with the manufacturing supply chain to ramp up immediate capacity to at least 200 units a day to meet expected NHS demand.

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Navigating the design to manufacture journey urning an idea into a KTN is hosting a series T scalable, commercial of events looking at the product is a challenge that challenges facing innovators faces many entrepreneurs, navigating the design to innovators and SMEs. manufacture journey aimed Developing a new product, at innovators, designers and new functionality or new manufacturers. customer experience can be Details on the final event in Register here difficult, and the design to this series are below. manufacture process must be given careful consideration to ensure that development costs Wednesday 3rd June 12:00 - 13:00 Investment and Funding and timelines are managed effectively.

WMG helps British taskforce with new non-invasive ventilator

MG is helping a body of business, is exploring the hospital. Two leading intensive w British citizen scientists, technical aspects of the care units have agreed to trial medical clinicians, academics, scheme ahead of rapid the prototype ventilator support manufacturers and engineers production and roll-out of the devices. who have developed an Negative Pressure Ventilator exovent is non-invasive, alternative model of non- (NPV). The exovent concept which means that patients invasive ventilator to support is also supported by WMG at do not need to have their the Government’s drive to equip the University of Warwick and windpipes intubated, so they the NHS. representatives from Imperial don’t need to be sedated NHS Trust and The Royal The new model, the or paralysed. Instead, they National Throat Nose and Ear exovent, is a cutting-edge can remain conscious, take reinvention of the archetypal medication and nutrition by iron lung which saved the lives mouth, and talk to loved ones of countless polio victims on the phone. It can be used during the last century. on a normal ward, keeping Marshall Aerospace & patients out of intensive care. Defence Group, the UK’s leading privately owned Aerospace and Defence Find out more

High Value Manufacturing Catapult 9 HVM CONneCT NCC prints protective face shields for Bristol hospitals ollowing a shout out for at have approved this first visor F least 200 more protective (pictured left). The community visors for University Hospitals of Long Ashton raided their Bristol NHS Foundation sewing boxes to donate elastic Trust last week, a small team to our design, before Dunelm reopened the NCC workshop in Weston-super-Mare opened some of their machines for for production. their store to supply larger the projects, multplying our production capacity. We’ve already modified quantities just for us. the face shield design to The visors contain GKN Aerospace are provide greater comfort to 3D-printed parts. As 3D-printing going to supply the parts they the wearer and staff at the can be time consuming, are making to NCC for final Bristol Royal Infirmatory (BRI) our partners are loaning us assembly and delivery to BRI.

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items of PPE to those that need it most

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AMRC 3D prints protective face shields for NHS workers housands of protective first batch of 934 protective weeks’ time, so we’re really T face shields to help keep face shields to the Royal pleased that we were able to Sheffield’s frontline NHS Hallamshire Hospital on Easter get almost 1,000 out of the workers safe in the fight against Monday. They plan to deliver an door by Monday and into the COVID-19 are being made by additional 1,000 visors to the hands of the frontline NHS a team at the AMRC, part of Northern General Hospital by workers who so desperately the High Value Manufacturing next week. need them in order to stay (HVM) Catapult. They are Joe Palmer, the Senior protected as they battle this working around the clock Design and Development deadly virus to save lives. to rapidly manufacture and Engineer who is leading the “When the visors were assemble these essential AMRC’s response, said the delivered to the medical stores visors. team has coordinated its department at the Hallamshire Engineers from the AMRC’s efforts with Sheffield Teaching Hospital, everyone there was Design and Prototyping Group Hospitals NHS Foundation really appreciative and that was (DPG) have responded to the Trust to ensure visors are being a real boost for our team. national call to produce more delivered to the local hospitals “The AMRC is so grateful Personal Protective Equipment with the greatest need. He said: to those who have stepped for healthcare workers by “We know these visors are up to help. It’s not just been using technologies such as 3D needed now and not in a few technical staff from the design printing and laser cutting to team – we’ve had everyone make up to 1,000 face visors from receptionists, composites per week. engineers and senior project The shop floor at the managers volunteer to help AMRC’s Design and Prototyping with the assembly.” Testing Centre has been transformed into an assembly production line and the team Find out more worked tirelessly over the Easter weekend to deliver the

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CPI joins national taskforce to develop COVID-19 vaccine E xperts from CPI will join the for COVID-19. coordinated approach to rapidly national drive to identify and The mRNA workstream accelerate the development, produce effective vaccines for forms part of the efforts of the scale-up and manufacture of COVID-19. They will support BioIndustries Association (BIA)- potential new vaccines. The efforts to manufacture and led Vaccine Manufacturing collaboration brings together formulate novel mRNA vaccine Group, which aims to ensure some of the brightest minds candidates from its facilities in that when a vaccine becomes from the most innovative Darlington using its extensive available, it can be rapidly institutions and companies skills and capabilities in the scaled-up and manufactured that the UK has to offer and development of biologic in considerable quantities. represents a significant pillar pharmaceuticals, formulations The group is a collaboration of the UK’s efforts to fight back and medicines manufacturing of the public sector, industry against COVID-19.” CPI will play a key role in the and academia that builds on Dick Elsy, CEO of the High mRNA workstream, focusing the UK’s world-leading science Value Manufacturing Catapult on the development, scale-up, base. said: “Production​ of an effective manufacture and supply of Sartorius ambr® 250 vaccine is vital to beating the mRNA vaccine candidate system - Biotherapeutics at CPI COVID-19 and allowing all of under development at Imperial us to get back to normal life. College London. Frank Millar, CEO of CPI The insight, experience and said: “We​ are proud to be capabilities that CPI brings The workstream is a critical part of this ambitious and part of the Government’s to meeting the challenge Vaccine Taskforce response should give the whole country that is led by Chief Scientific confidence that the taskforce Advisor Sir can make rapid progress.” and Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam. The Taskforce will coordinate activities covering the Find out more development, trialling, testing and manufacture of a vaccine

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he MTC has rapidly reacted user specific requirements and have proven to be successful T to a demand for protective reduce the typical time it would and hailed positive feedback, visors for healthcare staff in the take to manufacture. Using the launching the MTC into wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. MTC’s state-of-the-art facility production of the first 2,000 Following the ongoing success and the latest manufacturing units for hospitals around with the Intubation Shield for technologies, the visor has the UK. Supply chains and NHS workers, the MTC has been laser cut to ensure safety manufacturers are welcomed now prototyped and developed and comfortability and is built to continue the production a face visor that utilises laser using a polypropylene frame of the visors using the open cutting technology, which is and a clear plastic screen. The source technical packs and available as a free open source visor is suitably designed for documentation available for download. quick hand-assembly, with free download. With a recent peak in build instructions provided Coronavirus cases, the safety within the technical pack. of healthcare professionals has Preliminary trials at Download Here never been so important and Leicester Royal Infirmary personal protective equipment (PPE) plays a vital role. The MTC has been working hard to design, concept, prototype and test the laser cut protective visors with the aim to protect the eyes and face of healthcare workers. A technical specification for the visors has also been created as a result of the research. Starting with an initial open source concept created by Nottingham Hackspace, the design was modified to meet

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Restarting operations? Work safety culture doesn’t happen by accident

s more businesses helping out those less You’d expect British a to restart operations fortunate. workers to embrace a culture under very different working The British instinctively that works by consent – a conditions, the nuclear dislike being told what to do, culture that is characterised by industry’s established safety being generally more amenable leaders setting an example, and culture could provide a model to reasoned polite request. individuals accepting personal for other sectors, says Huw “Policing by consent” has been responsibility. Jenkins, industrial advisor from the basis of our approach since That is the basis of nuclear the Nuclear AMRC, part of the 19th century, and there’s safety culture. the High Value Manufacturing been widespread opprobrium This safety culture applies Catapult. Usually helping for heavy-handed applications companies in South Wales and to every business working of lockdown law by some in the nuclear supply chain, the West Midlands become officers. Fit For Nuclear, he introduces not just those managing the essential attitudes and radioactive or fissile materials. behaviours for a safe return to Any seemingly minor quality work. issue in the supply chain has the potential to become a This month’s VE day safety problem for an operating anniversary reminded us how reactor or waste store, maybe the British can be at their best decades into the future. in adversity, working together to defeat a common foe. In the Many of the companies we current Covid-19 crisis, we can help through the Fit For Nuclear be proud of the selflessness of programme say that upgrading our health and care workers, their safety culture is one of the and the kind acts of volunteers most valuable improvements

14 High Value Manufacturing Catapult HVM CONnecT they make, bringing business 1. Everyone is personally Ultimately, the key to benefits that go well beyond responsible for safety. work safety culture is shared their work for the nuclear 2. Leaders demonstrate their responsibility. While it’s always sector. commitment to safety. the legal responsibility of Nuclear safety culture has 3. Trust permeates the the employer to provide a organisation. eight internationally recognised safe working environment, characteristics, which I’ve 4. Decision-making reflects including all necessary PPE, listed below, along with some the safety-first approach. everyone from the boardroom questions to ask about how 5. Nuclear technology is to the shopfloor needs to they can be applied within a recognised as special take personal responsibility and unique. (This one is business in our accompanying for protecting the health and really only for companies safety of themselves and their web article. Not all will be in the nuclear supply chain, applicable to every sector, but although every business colleagues. the essential attitudes and should understand the behaviours can help save lives specific requirements of the industry they work in.) in manufacturing, construction Find out more and beyond. 6. A questioning attitude is cultivated. How well does your 7. Organisational learning is company culture match up? embraced. 8. Safety undergoes constant examination. Low-oxygen scuba rebreather repurposed to help coronavirus patients o xygen has been in in hospitals. use in healthcare, this greatly limited supply, due to the The company turned to expedited the certification increasing need for ventilators WMG for support and advice, process, and will help ensure to support critically ill people and we were able to put them that hospitals have access to a in hospital suffering from in touch with Government safe and approved product. COVID-19. Vobster Diving health officials, in order to make Last month, the concept Limited manufactures this idea a reality. Accessing was trialled and presented to rebreather equipment for ventilator products that meet the Cabinet Office, who have scuba diving, and MD Martin medical standards has been a invested in the product. Stanton came up with an idea problem for many hospitals in for how to repurpose this for this crisis. However, the medical medical ventilator applications rebreather (based on the scuba Find out more to clean and reuse oxygen, thus version) sourced components reducing oxygen consumption that were already approved for

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Manufacturing the Future Workforce

he workforce crisis in UK Foundation, worked to identify message is that centres of T manufacturing is well and capture good practice on innovation have a unique known. Repeated surveys the development of the future contribution to make to a new show that some 80% of UK workforce and how centres of Skills Value Chain. manufacturers struggle to innovation in other countries recruit the talents they need successfully contribute. Our recommendations to compete and anticipate The Manufacturing the increasing recruitment Future Workforce report, The report makes 5 pressures linked to the pace of published today, finds that recommendations based on technological change. They are truly successful innovation is good practice identified around also struggling to access the dependent on the availability the world. They are that the UK quantity and quality of provision of the right skills needed for should: necessary to upskill their its full exploitation. It warns 1. Develop and pilot the current workforce. that, without change, the UK’s application of skills Recognising that the current approach to workforce foresighting bringing value of its work to support development will fail to deliver together groups of innovation would be the skilled workers UK firms education and technology undermined unless industry need to succeed in challenging specialists could access the skilled markets. Built from much workforce needed to exploit greater connectivity between new technologies, the High stakeholders, it recommends a Value Manufacturing (HVM) new approach involving better Catapult, with partners foresighting and forecasting from the National Physical of future needs and making Laboratory (NPL) and TWI significant improvements to and support from the Gatsby learning delivery. The headline

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2. Support the development The HVM Catapult has a wealth of quantitative and qualitative of Higher Technical data on the impact it is having on the companies we work with. Qualifications and National Our case studies give a good impression of the value we have Standards added to many companies across all sizes and all sectors. 3. Develop modular training Maybe we could help your business? There is a cost involved, and resources to support but we can signpost sources of funding, for example, through future workforce skills Innovate UK. Email us at [email protected] if you’d like development more information or to discuss working with us. 4. Promote ‘Learning Factories’ as an education model to enable industrial digitalisation. 5. Improve recognition and funding of modular and lifelong learning

The report highlights that there is a very real opportunity for the UK to catch up with and then secure a competitive advantage from its research and innovation communities. Afghanistan veteran hails The report’s recommendations set out a blueprint for the UK ‘game changing’ mobility device to do this, by leveraging those communities’ knowledge and A disabled former Royal Eaglesham, founder of understanding in a Skills Value Marine Commando has Conquering Horizons, who Chain. From foresighting skills hailed the sleek, space-age contracted Q Fever during needs and supporting national mobility devices, designed and active service in Afghanistan standards to developing prototyped at the University in October 2010. The disease modular training and lifelong of Sheffield Advanced quickly progressed to mean the learning models, centres of Manufacturing Research father-of-three, a competitor for innovation and industry can Centre (AMRC), as a ‘game Team Ireland at the Rio 2016 lead the way. But the UK can changer for users the world Paralympics, is now completely only succeed if government over’. reliant on a wheelchair. stakeholders, industry and A fully-functioning Brian Meaden, fellow academia work together with prototype has been founder of Conquering a common purpose to equip manufactured by AMRC Horizons, said Victor could be the UK’s future manufacturing engineers which incorporates ready to launch to the public workforce. an electrically actuated arm to late next year: “Our vehicle is raise users to a ‘social height’, cool in design, robust, has off- multi-directional all-terrain road capability, four-wheel drive wheels, the ability to turn on the and can lift users to a social Find out more spot and a ‘cool’ design inspired height; it is a game changer by Star Wars. for all ages, sizes, weights and Called Victor, it is disabilities. the brainchild of Cpl Phil

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Current COVID-19 funding opportunities work with us Chancellor announces The High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult is here £1.25m to protect firms to help UK businesses of all sizes accelerate new driving innovation concepts to commercial reality. The comprehensive package includes a Working through seven world-class Our services are available to firms of new £500 million loan scheme for high- centres of industrial innovation, we all shapes and sizes, from FTSE-listed growth firms, called the Future Fund, provide access to the specialist companies to SMEs deep in the supply and £750 million of targeted support equipment and expertise you need to chain. They include: for small and medium sized businesses help investigate new technologies and — Capability which spans from focusing on research and development. processes and test their application. basic raw materials through to We can also help you to improve existing high integrity product assembly processes. We’re here to help you strip processes find out more away the risks of innovation and make investment decisions when you are — World-class facilities and skills confident that an idea can be scaled up to scale-up and prove high value to deliver on a commercial scale. manufacturing processes Government COVID-19 — A network of leading suppliers who contribute to key UK industry Business Support supply chains Coronavirus (COVID-19) support — A partnership between industry, available to businesses: government and research in a shared goal to make the UK an attractive • Loans, tax relief and cash grants place to invest in manufacturing will be available Our ambition is to grow your business • Employers can apply for staff to and the contribution of the manufacturing get up to 80% pay if they can’t sector to the UK economy. work • Self-employed people will receive up to £2,500 per month in grants for at least 3 months AFRC

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