Instrumentation Group
The Sensors & Instrumentation KTN is the UK’s sensing network. It was created by the DTI in recognition of the strategic importance of sensing to the UK economy.
The Sensors & Instrumentation KTN team is actively working to broker partnerships and collaborative R&D projects through a range of Instrumentation Group in a range of technology and application areas.
The Instrumentation Group is supporting, and stimulating innovation in the advanced instrumentation sector by encouraging enhanced linkages throughout the supply chain, and between research organisations and industry.
By ‘advanced’ instrumentation we are generally referring to the higher value, lower volume part of the instrumentation market, and to systems-level instrumentation issues rather than component technologies. Examples of systems-level issues include active and adaptive optics, autonomous systems, large & small scale online metrology and formation flying of satellite based scientific instruments.
Advanced instrumentation is an important sector. It directly accounts for approximately £9 billion of business for the UK economy; and indirectly it underpins an additional £50 billion in other sectors incl. Healthcare, Life Sciences, Defence, and Aerospace. However, many of the UK-based companies manufacturing instrumentation are within multinational organisations and the market is highly fragmented.
The AISIG will create a greater feeling of a combined instrumentation sector within the UK, and stimulate UK companies into developing innovative technologies and competing on the world stage.
Further information on this special interest group is available in the PDF entitled ‘AISIG’ ( 426KB).
If you would like to join the AISIG, please complete the online form at www.qi3.co.uk/sktn/membership.asp. Membership is free of charge.
Membership is free of charge and will provide:
- The ability to network and interact with the UK advanced instrumentation community (academia and industry);
- Access to information relating to innovation in this sector;
- Invites to events and brokering meetings;
- The opportunity to be involved in technology development and knowledge transfer between academia and industry, industry and industry, and scientific instrumentation to other instrumentation.
For further information on Instrumentation Group activities please contact:
We are always available for confidential discussions on Tel: +44 (0)1223 422406
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