HSSMI has recently become a member of Make UK, the established voice of manufacturers across the UK, and is excited to be joining a community of over 5,000 businesses. HSSMI and Make UK have been discussing areas of potential future collaboration.

Electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries retire from transport applications when they reach 70-80% capacity, presenting an opportunity for OEMs to cascade this value into new functions and eventually recovering the valuable materials these batteries are made from.

HSSMI has supported Ford Motor Company to accelerate the scale up of ventilator production by developing a series of 3D, digitally animated work instructions using 3D PDF, which enabled operators to be trained remotely under the constraints of social distancing.

Here we present a comprehensive list of the resources we explored in our social media campaign "Bouncing Back after the Pandemic". We believe manufacturers can take inspiration and some ideas from these documents on what measures to implement and how once they are ready to reopen their factories.

How can manufacturers benefit from implementing circular economy principles? This is a key question that guides the work of HSSMI and we are ambitious about exploring it in detail and forging closer ties with organisations and experts active in circular economy.

This report aims to describe the high-level trends in the application and spread of digital technologies and HSSMI’s concept of “orchestration” which leads to the establishment of a successful digital ecosystem. As an example of such an ecosystem, the use case of digital twins is described.