Professor Duncan McFarlane

Professor Duncan McFarlane

Professor of Industrial Information Engineering

All Sessions by Professor Duncan McFarlane

Workshops 27 February 2025
12:30 - 13:20

Digital Needs - by Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring

This interactive workshop helps manufacturers identify low-cost technologies that address their top business needs. They will discover how they can combine off-the-shelf technologies and open source software to build simple digital solutions that help them improve productivity, save time and money and develop their employees’ digital skills. Join your manufacturing peers for an inspiring in-person event at The BIG Cornish Tech Showcase, and discover how low-cost digital solutions could address your most pressing business needs. The workshop will help you find out how your company can cut costs, reduce energy bills, cut waste and improve productivity by deploying low-cost digital solutions in your factory. The workshop was devised as part of the University of Cambridge Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring research project. Over 400 companies have participated in the workshops and over 150 companies have deployed the low-cost digital solutions, using affordable off-the-shelf technologies, that Shoestring has designed.