UK engineering needs a clear direction of travel for digital transformation. A new roadmap from the High Value Manufacturing Catapult delivers it.
The new digital engineering roadmap lays out the key demand drivers and opportunities facing industry, as well as the capability needs and innovation requirements the UK must realise to grasp those opportunities.
At Advanced Engineering UK, NCC's Andrew Patterson and High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult CTO Professor Chris Dungey shared the roadmap with industry for the first time.
Watch the video below to learn more about its contents, how NCC and the wider HVM Catapult are supporting industrial adoption, and how your organisation can provide feedback and help shape national initiatives.
Preparing your business for digital transformation
What will digital transformation really look and feel like in the years ahead?
To accompany the roadmap launch, an article from NCC's Andrew Patterson breaks down the UK's transformation journey into three distinct time horizons – and describes what your teams should be doing today to prepare for each one.
By 2040, HVM Catapult envisions a nationally connected digital engineering ecosystem: where integrated data flows, intelligent automation, and lifecycle-aware design combine with a future-ready workforce.
The article highlights the five priority capabilities the UK must develop to achieve it.