For this episode, I visited the MTC to understand what advanced manufacturing actually looks like today, why it matters to the future of British automotive industry, and how organizations like this attempt to bridge the difficult gap between a good idea and something that can only work reliably at industrial scale.

You know, we originally established, um, as part of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult to bridge the gap.

We talk about a valley of death between research, generally done in, in universities, uh, but not exclusively, and commercialization and, and exploitation of, of technology in industry.

So very much, uh, the intent was that the role of the MTC and other organizations like us was we bridge that, that valley of death.

But also to help businesses big and small adopt, um, advanced manufacturing technologies, help with productivity, um, in UK manufacturing, and just generally provide a, a low risk environment for organizations to come along and try new technologies, um, and develop them in partnership with somebody that could support them before they implement in their facility.

I th- I think, I think where we've, where we're, where we've evolved to now, I think is very much thinking in line with the, with the UK government's growth mission and the modern industrial strategy, which to some extent underpins that growth mission.

And what we hear a lot of now is, um, enabling businesses not just to start up and, to some extent, scale up in the UK, 'cause you know, lots of businesses start up and, and do scale in the UK, but enabling them to hyper scale and stay in the UK.

Is there anything physical that, that is exciting on the horizon for you?