LCR 4.0, a part ERDF funded business support programme for the manufacturing sector, has created 80 new jobs and added £2.6m GVA to date. These figures were revealed at its Technology Showcase event which took place at Sci-Tech Daresbury last week. It is now predicted that...
Global innovation hub Sensor City is positioning Liverpool City Region as an international leader in Industry 4.0 with a cohort of new tenants. The latest organisations to call Sensor City home are, Visual5d (V5D), Render Nation, Nova, Pulse Systems, Sensicon and Aerodrums. Having worked with construction giants Kier, Balfour Beattie, Morgan Sindall and...
Technical innovation centre, Sensor City, has launched a competition to give SMEs the chance to win a fast-track growth package worth up to £10,000. Announced at the AWS User Group Meet-Up, the package is designed to help start-up and small businesses scale, boost competitive advantage and...
Time is running out to register for fully-funded support from LCR 4.0, a part ERDF-funded support programme helping SMEs in the manufacturing space embrace Industry 4.0 technologies. To date, LCR 4.0 has helped over 197 SMEs in Liverpool, Knowsley, Halton, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral explore...
The Financial Times has listed LCR 4.0 as one of its ‘Top 100 European digital champions. The business support programme – which is part-funded by ERDF – has supported nearly 200 local manufacturing SMEs since its launch in November 2016 and continues to engage with...
For Digital Manufacturing Week, the LCR 4.0 project teamed up with Invest Liverpool to bring audiences an exciting Solutions Theatre that discussed all topics relating to new and digital technologies, the challenges for manufacturing and how we are overcoming these. We had a range of speakers...
Manufacturing and robotics firms are joining forces with Innovate UK to develop a revolutionary new piece of commercial infrastructure to produce commercial roof tiles – the factory in a box. CNC Robotics Ltd, the UK’s leading machining robotics integrator, and SunScape Systems Ltd (SSL), a manufacturer...
Sensor City’s dedicated LCR 4.0 team has grown recently thanks to the appointment of two female engineers. Electronics Engineer, Zipporah Mayik, has joined the team to help Liverpool city region businesses embrace digital technologies which will strengthen and ultimately futureproof their operations. With a background in IoT applications,...
Liverpool startup Koffin is tackling rising funeral costs by using advanced material testing and 3D printing technology to help create its first batch of customisable eco-coffins, with support from business programme LCR 4.0. With funeral costs having risen over 70 per cent in the last decade,...
Liverpool 5G Consortium received £3.5 million from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) 5G Testbeds and Trials programme, to help deliver the government’s 5G strategy. The consortium led by LCR 4.0 Delivery partner, Sensor City, includes: Blu Wireless Technology, AIMES, Inventya, DefProc, Digicredis, CGA Simulation,...