PEMD Scale-up: Strand 1, Adopting Manufacturing Best Practice in the UK

Deadline: 7-Dec-22

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5 million to scale up manufacturing in the power electronics, machines and drives supply chain. This strand will fund feasibility studies for innovative manufacturing solutions from other sectors.

The aim is to improve manufacturing best practice in these technologies which are critical for net zero.

Strands

Adopting manufacturing best practice, which aims to fund feasibility studies that facilitate the transfer of knowledge, solutions, technologies and best practice from other manufacturing sectors and demonstrate the impact of these innovations on the PEMD supply chain.

Scope

Elements of the manufacturing supply chain that are considered in scope include:

Materials processing
Sub-component and component manufacturing
Sub-system integration and assembly
Final assembly of PEMD specific modules
Remanufacturing
End of life disassembly and recycling

This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Other manufacturing process innovations may be in scope.

Funding Information: Your project’s total grant funding request must be between £50,000 and £400,000.

Projects must be able to demonstrate that:

The innovation is new to and will positively impact the PEMD supply chain
There are potential cost and energy savings, productivity and quality benefits to their business
They will have a positive impact on the environmental, societal and governance (ESG) performance of the PEMD supply chain
They are exploitable through future activities
There is the potential to deliver a return on investment should the project be successful
Your project outputs should ideally have potential for cross-sector impact.

Eligibility Criteria

Your project must:
- Start by 1 May 2023
- Last between 6 and 12 months
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source.
Lead Organisation
- To lead a project your organisation must:
  - Be a UK registered business of any size
  - Collaborate with other UK registered organisations
  - Academic institutions and research technology organisations RTOs cannot lead.
Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
  - Business of any size
  - Academic institution
  - Charity
  - Not for profit
  - Public sector organisation
  - Research and technology organisation (RTO)
Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
The lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.