27 January 2025
Are you interested in shaping the UK’s digital engineering transformation? The Smart Design Innovation Network would welcome your contribution!
The Smart Design Innovation Network is a growing technical ecosystem convened and hosted by NCC (National Composites Centre) on behalf of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult. It developed from partnerships formed in the Smart Design - Certification by Analysis project.
The network’s mission is to empower UK engineers to accelerate innovation and product realisation; to do more with the technologies of today and to pull-through radical new techniques, exploiting growing digital prowess and challenging the status quo of design and certification.
The Smart Design Innovation Network currently comprises the 6 centres from the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, (AMRC, CPI, MTC, NCC, NMIS and WMG), in partnership with The Alan Turing Institute, AMIC, BSI, NAFEMS and NPL.
Vision for 2025
In 2025, the network will demonstrate its commitment to its mission by:
- Raising visibility and engagement with industry, technology providers, academia, regulators and policy makers
- Hosting multi-sector working groups to share best practice and curate and maintain an overarching UK capability action plan
- Deriving value proposition and specific challenge-led programmes that will inform future funding opportunities
Join our working groups
Click below to find out more about the network, including our three working groups, each conducting sector-focused analysis that will inform UK industrial strategy:
Certification by Analysis
Developing processes and tools to undertake more testing in the virtual world
Augmenting Engineering Practices
Exploring how designers can be augmented by next generation AI tools
Enabling Engineering Collaboration
Analysing innovative approaches to data and model management
