Saskatchewan Polytechnic has been granted $1.75 million in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to maintain their Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE)

Since it was launched, DICE has grown from 17 employees to 30 and generated $11.8 million in revenue, almost doubling the projected earnings in the original five-year plan. DICE supports a wide range of partners, from large mining and manufacturing firms to tech start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises. Industry partners retain all intellectual property from applied research.

In the mining and energy sectors, DICE has supported projects such as robotic mining automation with Cameco, hydrogen fuel cell defect detection with Mercedes-Benz and underground positioning systems with Nutrien and BHP. In agriculture, the centre has worked with partners such as Ground Truth and Nut Mountain Farms to assess crop quality and grade.