NMIS - Design-led innovation in Scotland –Make it right, make it here, make it now

Join this event to discover how design-led innovation can de-risk ideas, improve manufacturing, and help you to scale with confidence.

This in-person awareness-raising event will explore how strong design at the early stages of innovation can help turn ideas into scalable, manufacturable products and processes. The session will focus on the theme “Make it right, make it here, make it now” and is aimed at manufacturing businesses with ambitions to scale, automate and commercialise new ideas.

Through expert insight, real-world case studies and practical discussion, you’ll learn how design-led innovation can reduce risk, improve productivity, support automation readiness and strengthen the journey – from idea to production. The event will also highlight the support available across Scotland’s innovation ecosystem, including how you can access expertise, facilities and guidance to test, prototype, de-risk and scale your innovation projects.

The event will be hosted by Scottish Enterprise, 4C Design and NMIS, and it will include business case studies. You’ll hear from specialists across design, manufacturing innovation and business support, as well as from a company that has already accessed support and progressed through the innovation journey.

The event will include:

• Lunch and networking, followed by a welcome and scene-setting session on good design for manufacture and automation
• A session on “Make it right” with 4C Design, focusing on de-risking innovation through design, followed by “Make it here” with NMIS, looking at testing, prototyping and scaling production
• “Make it now”, hosted by Scottish Enterprise, covering the support available to help you move from idea to commercialisation
• The afternoon will close with a panel discussion and Q&A, giving you the opportunity to ask questions and reflect on how design-led innovation could support your product, process or idea