{"id":49817,"date":"2014-11-06T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=79ecd22b89102f7b787d49540c5d0734"},"modified":"2014-11-06T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:28:01","slug":"news-story-7-million-for-new-approaches-to-flexible-manufacturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49817","title":{"rendered":"News story: \u00a37 million for new approaches to flexible manufacturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>If you\u2019re a business looking for funding in the area of flexible manufacturing, Innovate UK is investing up to \u00a37 million in a collaborative research and development competition. This is co-funded by the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epsrc.ac.uk\/\">Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the competition is to encourage innovations that will enable UK manufacturers to react quickly and efficiently to changes in raw materials, customer requirements and manufacturing resources.  <\/p>\n<p>We are seeking proposals from a wide range of industries. Projects must be collaborative and business-led, with at least two businesses in each collaborative consortium. A business winning funding can expect to receive 50-60% of their project costs.<\/p>\n<p>Each project should include project partners, such as research organisations, system integrators and businesses within the supply chain, as well as a proposed end-user. <\/p>\n<p>We expect projects to range in size from total costs of \u00a3500k to \u00a31.5m. <\/p>\n<p>To apply, you must first register by 28 January 2015. <\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Find out more and register for the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/interact.innovateuk.org\/competition-display-page\/-\/asset_publisher\/RqEt2AKmEBhi\/content\/flexible-manufacturing\">flexible manufacturing competition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities for UK businesses to work together on novel equipment, processes and systems for flexible manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}