Shoestring News
Shoestring at Cambridge Festival 2022
07/04/2022 Join us on Saturday 9 April at the Institute for Manufacturing to see live demonstrations of Shoestring solutions. As part of the Cambridge University festival...
Students create digital solutions for manufacturers in two-day hackathon
25/02/2022 The latest Shoestring hackathon gave students a taste of what it is like to solve real-life manufacturing challenges and the chance to develop their team, project...
Shoestring gave us digital confidence, says dental manufacturer
25/01/2022 A temperature monitoring pilot at dental manufacturer, Kemdent, gave the staff confidence to digitalise more processes across the company. After deliberating about how...
Shoestring’s research is well received at SOHOMA’21
30/11/2021 Shoestring researchers' papers on developing low-cost digital solutions and digital manufacturing architectures sparked discussions at SOHOMA’21. The latest advances...
Construction manufacturer sees immediate benefit from Shoestring pilot
11/10/2021 This new job tracking pilot at David Smith, a construction manufacturer in St Ives, is already bringing benefits to the company’s production process. It was exciting...
Top business challenges for manufacturers identified
23/08/2021 Top business challenges for small to medium sized manufacturers are identified and matched to digital solution areas. Taking a radical approach to helping SMEs go...
Industry partners help develop the Shoestring project
19/08/2021 Support grows for Shoestring as it transitions to a community programme, with in-company specification workshops and factory pilots helping to shape the future...
Fife College joins Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring
22/06/2021 Fife College has been named partners of the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring programme. The link-up is part of the College’s drive to increase STEM skills,...
Shoestring Solution Providers Workshop, June 2021
21/06/2021 On Wednesday 16th June, Shoestring held an online workshop for its solution provider partners to explore how off-the-shelf technologies can be integrated into the...
New low-cost solutions help manufacturers go digital
17/06/2021 A new article, originally published in the Manufacturer, shows how the Shoestring programme is using cost-effective, off-the-shelf technologies to help manufacturing...
Students compete to create low cost digital solutions
01/06/2021 The Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring project successfully ran its second sprint-like event on 24-25 October 2020. This was a highly intensive competition where...
Autumn conference showcases the Shoestring approach
01/10/2019 Shoestring Requirements Workshop Exploring low-cost digital solutions for SME manufacturers, the ‘Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring’ project is seeking to change...
Shoestring Hackathon October 2019
16/09/2019 About After the successful hackathon challenge run in the IEEE Students’ Hackathon at Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT, DIAL is organising the first full event of...
Low-cost automation ‘on a shoestring’ demos in action
19/06/2019 About The Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring project continued to build momentum at a partners’ meeting on 13th June at the Institute for Manufacturing, bringing...
Small-scale manufacturing the smart way
06/03/2019 ‘Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring’ is a project with a difference. It asks how existing and readily available digital technologies could be implemented on a...