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UK Advanced Manufacturing Industry

Find out more about the UK’s thriving Advanced Manufacturing industry and those investing in innovative technologies and processes to increase productivity. Get an accurate view of the sector through innovative financial, company, funding and growth data today.

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What is Advanced Manufacturing?

Advanced Manufacturing is the term used to describe innovation within the manufacturing industry. Advanced Manufacturing within the UK can be used to classify companies that use innovative technologies and processes to increase production and productivity.

Typically, what’s different between traditional and advanced manufacturing is the use of versatile production methods that drive efficiency. This includes companies leveraging automation, robotics, artificial intelligence, software, AR & VR, digital design and other cutting-edge processes that add value in the manufacturing process.

Advanced Manufacturing helps to support a wide range of other industries, with techniques being used across electric vehicle production, robotics, pharmaceuticals and much more.

Advanced Manufacturing sector summary

Key information you should know about the Advanced Manufacturing sector from our AI-driven platform of over 5 million companies:

  • The Advanced Manufacturing sector has not received additional investor attention in recent years and the amount of venture capital funding is not increasing as fast as our other emerging economy sectors.
  • On average the roles advertised in this sector are 14.68% lower than the UK’s average salary.
  • Advanced Manufacturing has turnover of £120.75bn, meaning it is our 10th largest RTIC, and our 45th fastest growing sector.
11,598
COMPANIES CONSIDERED
£120.6bn
TOTAL TURNOVER
275,337
TOTAL EMPLOYEES
£9.5bn
TOTAL INVESTMENT FUNDING
£392.4m
TOTAL INNOVATE UK GRANT FUNDING
3.7%
AVERAGE COMPANY GROWTH PER YEAR

Advanced Manufacturing verticals

Our Advanced Manufacturing RTIC is made up of 15 individual industry verticals, including verticals such as Advanced Measurement, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented and Virtual Reality. You can find out more about the verticals by buying a report, visualising the sector on our platform, or by downloading the data.

  • Sector Code Description Records
  • RTIC0065 Advanced Manufacturing 11598 companies

    Companies using the most innovative technologies and processes to increase productivity, often in the highest value-add parts of manufacturing sectors.

    • Advanced Manufacturing: Advanced Measurement

      Companies which can complete the measurement of workpieces between operations with high speed, high efficiency, high accuracy and high flexibility.

      279 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Artificial Intelligence

      Companies leveraging AI and machine learning, manufacturers can improve operational efficiency, launch new products, customize product designs and plan future financial action.

      602 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Augmented and Virtual Reality

      Enhancing and augmenting existing product and service design and enabling entirely new techniques using virtual worlds

      227 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Coating Tech

      Companies offering services for covering that is applied to the surface of an object, usually referred to as the substrate. The purpose of applying the coating may be decorative, functional, or both.

      1330 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Computer Aided Manufacturing

      Companies using software and computer-controlled machinery to automate a manufacturing process.

      2296 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Cutting and Machining

      Cutting is a technique where the operator moves a material (workpiece) such as metal and the tool in relation to each other in order to shape the workpiece into the desired form through shaving, drilling, etc

      1038 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Data Services

      Companies using data to drive efficient and responsive production systems.

      517 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Digital Design

      Digital Design, Manufacturing & Services (DDMS) is a digital-first approach to the way products are designed, manufactured and operated.

      1754 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Digital Twins

      The digital twin is a virtual representation of the as-designed, as-built, and as-maintained physical product

      123 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Forging

      Forging is a manufacturing process involving the shaping of a metal through hammering, pressing, or rolling.

      1858 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Forming

      Forming is a mechanical process used in manufacturing industries wherein materials (mostly metals) undergo plastic deformations and acquire required shapes and sizes by application of suitable stresses such as compression, shear and tension

      1616 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Industrial IoT

      The industrial internet of things (IIoT) refers to interconnected sensors, instruments, and other devices networked together with computers’ industrial applications.

      554 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Moulding

      A process that involves shaping a liquid or malleable raw material by using a fixed frame; known as either a mould or a matrix.

      560 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Prototyping

      Companies creating early samples, models, or releases of a product built to test a concept or process.

      1793 companies
    • Advanced Manufacturing: Robotics and Automation

      Robotic Process Automation, or RPA, is software that is integrated with business processes in order to automate certain activities, minimize human errors, and maximize productivity

      975 companies

Advanced Manufacturing industry growth

We estimate that the UK Advanced Manufacturing sector could be worth approximately £144.8bn by 2027, based on the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7%. Below you can see the five year turnover forecast for the RTIC from 2023 to 2027.

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