National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
Manufacturing in Scotland
Where innovation meets manufacturing excellence
People and skills development
Developing a modern and diverse workforce
A digital future
Helping manufacturers embrace the future, today
Innovative sustainability
Reaching your net-zero ambitions and saving the planet
The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)
Driving the future of manufacturing through innovation. We’re accelerating productivity to grow our economy, develop a vibrant workforce, and create happier, healthier, greener communities.
From our growing network of world-class manufacturing R&D facilities, we work with businesses of all sizes and sectors across Scotland, the UK, and beyond to find technology solutions to help them succeed.
We turn brilliant ideas into reality, and we do it at industry speed. Coming from diverse backgrounds, our passionate team works alongside industry, academia, and the public sector to solve problems, train the next generation of makers, engineers, and inventors, and generate creative ideas that will change how we make things and protect our planet.
What we do
Working together, we can send more Scottish made satellites into space, launch a generation of green-powered ships on the Clyde, make fleets of electric vehicles that will travel the globe, and grow a circular wind industry that will create homegrown jobs and manufacturing supply chains.
But we need the right technology and people with the right skills to help get us there. Below is a snapshot of some of the R&D projects we’re currently working on:
Developing UK wind turbine blade recycling
Creating a net-zero shipbuilding industry
Making more energy-efficient parts in the aerospace industry
Helping manufacturers embrace the circular economy
Building a pipeline of highly skilled green jobs
Developing a space and photonics manufacturing facility
Our centres
Manufacturing Skills Academy
Transforming the manufacturing workforce and supporting Scotland’s emerging markets with a skilled talent pipeline, the MSA offers advanced training and development opportunities for people at all levels of their careers.
Digital Factory
Offering solutions to help overcome roadblocks and inefficiencies, increase productivity, improve sustainability and push forward innovation within the manufacturing, technology and engineering community.
Digital Process Manufacturing Centre
Opening at i3 in North Ayrshire, we're transforming the region’s industrial landscape and the future of the UK’s process industries.
University of Strathclyde's Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC)
The founding NMIS centre and a global centre of excellence in forming and forging research for over a decade with an outreach office in Sheffield.
Lightweight Manufacturing Centre
Our team of world-class engineers and researchers is exploring the next generation of sustainable materials, products, and processes for a net-zero world.
Sustainability and the circular economy are central to ACS’s core identity. Through help from the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) we have implemented real solutions that will have a tangible impact on how we operate. This approach has already driven results by helping us secure investment to keep us growing. Our relationship with NMIS also given us a larger voice within the industry – helping us to influence policy and others in the textiles industry to become more sustainable.
We are thrilled to start this collaboration with NMIS to bring leading-edge 4.0 immersive tools to main industrial actors. By investigating new use cases of SkyReal turnkey XR software, we truly believe the NMIS will provide efficiency and return on investment to its partners.
Both NMIS and Scottish Enterprise’s contributions to help us meet these needs, join the dots and create links into resources and advice, has been nothing short of exemplary. If we are successful in bringing a “world first product” of CE certified stature to a market very much in need, during unprecedented times over an incredibly short period of time, it will be with great pride and in the knowledge, gratitude and recognition of a truly first-class collaboration.
Manufacturing innovation has vital role to play in turning net-zero into a reality, and being part of the NMIS collaborative community gives us access to not only the latest in advanced manufacturing tools and processes, but also to some of the world’s best brains in manufacturing R&D.
Infor’s long-term partnership agreement with National Manufacturing Institute Scotland demonstrates our commitment to delivering high-value capabilities to the manufacturing sector, and we’re looking forward to showcasing the many benefits that smarter manufacturing can bring to industries here in Scotland and the wider world.
We have made significant project gains with the embedded support of the Advanced Forming Research Centre working at our industrial pace. The Sheffield Modelling Team has delivered a set of accurate DES models along our commercial timeline that allows us to be very agile on some of the ‘what-if’ questions from key customers and stakeholders. Not only does this assist the recapitalisation project, but it is also beneficial for the wider future of the business.
Working with the Lightweight Manufacturing Centre has allowed us to tap into its composite capabilities and take our ACT Blade concept from design through to manufacture. Now, we need to see how it performs in a real environment.
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