Any business, small or large, needs to keep improving to be able to stay competitive. Digitalising aspects of your manufacturing business can help to identify inefficiencies, improve processes and provide simple data for better decision making and importantly, it can now be quick and easy.
The department supports digital adoption and literacy in WA’s food and beverage manufacturing sector through the free Shoestring Digital program. Developed by Cambridge University with UK Government support, the program provides simple, low-risk digital tools that can be installed one at a time and operated by existing staff. It enables small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to trial digital solutions while achieving practical improvements in efficiency, decision-making, quality, productivity and sustainability from day one.
Shoestring Digital provides the support to get started, together with the following simple digital tools/solutions to meet real business needs:
How Shoestring works
If you are interested in any of these Shoestring tools, register here and an individual site visit can be arranged to dive further into how these digital tools could benefit your individual business and to demonstrate these in operation. Alternatively, a discussion can be arranged via Teams or over the phone.
Why is digital manufacturing important?
We consider Shoestring is a positive and disruptive step in the right direction with the potential to generate significant benefit for SME businesses. The benefits will extend far beyond the WA context as other regions recognise the power of this model and come on board allowing Shoestring the development runway (budget, space and time) to fully develop into the transformational industry development tool that it can be.
Andrew Duff, Research Report Author, DPIRD Western Australia
Digital Ecosystem
The department is continuing further work in the digital ecosystem and is seeking interested small businesses, service providers and educational institutions to be involved in the development of additional resources, programs and tools.
Please express you interest