CPI Partners with NMIS on New Ayrshire Technology Center

The National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) Group, operated by the University of Strathclyde, will open a new technology center in Ayrshire in partnership with North Ayrshire Council and CPI, to help the country’s process manufacturing industries embrace emerging technologies and fast track a net-zero future.
 
Targeting process industries including Scotland’s £9 billion oil and gas, £15 billion food and drink and pharmaceutical and chemical sciences industries, the new Digital Process Manufacturing Centre (DMPC) located at i3 in North Ayrshire will offer training opportunities, digital demonstrators and access to expert support on research and development.

The news follows last year’s announcement that the University of Strathclyde was set to work in partnership with North Ayrshire Council and CPI committing to future-proofing the process industries through support for digitalization and data-driven manufacturing.

Following the successful delivery of a series of specialist courses through the NMIS Manufacturing Skills Academy, the partners are now ramping up support through the new center, which will be housed in an existing manufacturing facility after it undergoes a half million-pound refurbishment. The center is set to open its doors later this year.

It will be the first time the Scottish Government-backed NMISGroup has opened a center outside of Renfrewshire’s Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland, where it operates out of the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre and Lightweight Manufacturing Centre and will soon open its new headquarters.

CPI collaborates with partners in industry, academia, government, and the investment community to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative products in healthcare and sustainability.

“This partnership brings together the expertise from two High Value Manufacturing Catapult Centres to contribute to futureproofing digital process manufacturing by supporting individuals and businesses to upskill, resulting in increased productivity and creating the workforce of tomorrow,” CPI CEO Frank Millar said. “It also further establishes CPI’s presence in Scotland, which is home to our Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre, a facility leading the way in advanced manufacturing.”

“At the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, we’re re-establishing Scotland as a manufacturing powerhouse and doing it proudly as part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult family,” Keith Ridgway, executive chair, National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, added. “Working closely with our Catapult colleagues at CPI, we’re leveraging our combined experience, expertise and networks to deliver powerful solutions for industry.”