**OCC applying on behalf of ZCOP** In 2019, 17% of Oxford's emissions came from Industry, with 66% of industrial processes running on gas. The sources of these emissions are dispersed, with many relatively small industrial or manufacturing sites (400+) over the city, and a handful of large emitters - including many SMEs. Deployment of required decarbonisation technologies is complex across dispersed sites in a space-constrained city, with likely complex implementation and logistics increasing costs compared to larger, more concentrated clusters and requiring links to regional infrastructure and projects. Oxford City Council is submitting this bid on behalf of the Zero Carbon Oxford Partnership (ZCOP). ZCOP brings together universities, NHS trusts, councils, large businesses, further education, and community organisations that are strategically important to achieving net zero by 2040\. Using a collaborative approach, ZCOP produced a Roadmap and Action Plan - a science-based report which outlines how Oxford can reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040\. All ZCOP partners contributed to the development of the Roadmap. The Action Plan also focuses on projects that require cooperation and coordination between partners. It leverages the power and influence of the city's institutions - unlocking key interventions that would be impossible if working individually. The Roadmap and Action Plan has been a key resource guiding the ZCOP actions in transport, residential and commercial buildings and energy. However, the roadmap does not include a detailed route for Industry to reach net zero. Therefore, this project will: * Develop a context-sensitive, strategic I-RMAP that outlines the optimal way for organisations to work together and act individually to decarbonise industry in Oxford. * Establish a partnership or cluster of relevant organisations who are aligned around a common 2040 net zero target that will continue to work together to deliver I-RMAP in the long-term. * Increase capacity and capability within organisations locally to understand and deliver projects in line with the roadmap. To enable this, the project will: Assess industrial emissions and define local cluster baseline, develop robust plans for focused stakeholder engagement, capacity building, and awareness raising with the OxCluster, review potential technology options, and model decarbonisation pathways, including both common infrastructure and site-specific solutions, and critically assesses surrounding barriers. Together, this analysis will be combined into an evidence-based I-RMAP and recommendations, with a pipeline of projects and actions to be owned and implemented by Oxford's Cluster.

International competitiveness requires the UK to modernise its industrial capabilities, which are steering industries towards widespread development and adoption of automation, and autonomous based solutions. These technologies have the potential to create novel and disruptive manufacturing capabilities leading to significant improvements in quality, accuracy, precision, and cost to manufacture. High integrity welding is a key enabling technology for UK manufacturing and the purpose of WeldZero is to develop and showcase the benefits of adopting intelligent welding robotic system solutions within a cyber-physical production system (CPPS). The WeldZero project will develop and showcase the benefits of digital technologies applied to welding operations in an industrial manufacturing context to support a zero defect strategy. By bringing together state-of-the-art data integration approaches and data handling with real-world manufacturing to work to the achievement of zero defects in a multi-stage production line. This will prove the effectiveness of digital welding and accelerate the wider adoption of the new Industry 4.0 strategies in the existing manufacturing systems -- improving the competitiveness of the UK. The system created will be based around a data rich manufacturing environment whereby both direct machine control and feedback can be collated and processed in real-time. Coupled to this system will be a number of additional technology applications such as weld toolpath planning and simulation, advanced sensor integration and control algorithms, machining learning and data analysis. This will then feedback into specific welding cell control systems to substantially improve manufacturing performance. The project will demonstrate the impact of WeldZero using four different welded product applications from the construction, automotive and off-shore manufacturing sectors; each using different welding process solutions; with the aim of increasing productivity by at least 40%. WeldZero contributes to all key innovation areas under the Manufacturing Made Smarter competition: Smart connected factory: application and use of use of real-time data to optimise operational efficiency capture, analysis and visualisation of manufacturing processes. Connected and versatile supply chain: Full process information integration, communication and traceability are a key aspects of WeldZero. Design, make, test, including: Primarily contributing to virtual product testing, verification and validation, quality monitoring and inspection -- in the context of weld processing and manufacturing sequencing design. Adaptable, flexible manufacturing operations: Enable adoption of advanced welding technologies in a human-centric automation and autonomy, enabling flexible manufacturing systems.