The programme will innovate across five themes to deliver impact for industry:

• Intelligent factory/site management and control
• Intelligent product verification and validation
• Transparent and data-driven procurement
• Digitally enabled factory/site workforce
• Resource measurement and analytics

These five themes and the outputs of the programme will have the following impacts for business and the wider industry, with the potential to lead the way forward for innovation by the manufacturing sector and into wider industry settings.

• Optimising manufacturing operations
• Creating trusted and resilient supply chains
• Delivering higher quality with lower waste
• Generating new revenue opportunities
• Encouraging more sustainable business
• Improving factory/site productivity