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Demystify, Derisk, Deliver.

Demystifying, derisking, and delivering advanced manufacturing solutions for industry.

Turning Industry Challenges
into Growth Opportunities

Smart, sustainable, and resilient manufacturing is now the baseline for growth, not just an ambition. For SMEs in Ireland, this shift brings both opportunities and significant challenges, whether it’s adapting to global competition, meeting tightening sustainability targets, or keeping pace with digital transformation.

Through our four pillars, Digitisation, Robotics & Automation, Design for Manufacturing, and Sustainable Manufacturing, we work side by side with companies to:

DIGITISE MY BUSINESS

Boost visibility, capture real-time data, and connect your processes end-to-end.

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AUTOMATE REPETITIVE TASKS

Deploy robotics and smart controls to free up your people for higher-value work.

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IMPROVE PRODUCTS / PROCESSES

Optimise designs and processes with prototyping, testing, and Design for Manufacture.

Improve My Products/Processes

IMPROVE SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES

Embed circular economy strategies to reduce energy, waste, and emissions.

Improve My Sustainability

UPSKILL MY TEAM

Equip your workforce with the digital, lean, and leadership skills to succeed.

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tEST EMERGING TECH

Access pilot projects to derisk investment in next-generation technologies.

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Real Impact. Proven Results.

From cost savings to carbon cuts, IMR delivers measurable value across Irish industry—driving growth, sustainability, and innovation where it matters most.

saved annually by 58 companies

in additional annual value created for 70 companies

jobs created, safeguarded, or upskilled across 72 companies

of CO₂ avoided — equal to 27,000 cars off the road each year

water saved — the usage of almost 7,000 Irish homes annually

case Studies

Behind every number is a factory, workforce, or supply chain that has grown stronger through collaboration with IMR.

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How IMR Works for You

Innovation is complex. Manufacturers face tight timelines, fast-changing tech, and sustainability demands.
IMR makes the process practical and low risk.

Demystify — Clear, expert insight into the right technologies and pathways for your business.

Derisk — Pilot and validate in a collaborative, low-risk environment before scaling.

Deliver — Move from proof-of-concept to production with measurable returns in cost, carbon, and competitiveness.

Leading Change Through Flagship Innovation

From circular economy to smart factories, IMR leads national-scale initiatives that tackle Ireland’s most urgent industrial challenges. These programmes accelerate transformation and position Irish manufacturing at the forefront of global innovation.

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FactoryXChange (FXC)

FXC is Ireland’s European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH), co-funded by the European Commission and Enterprise Ireland, with a mission to make digital transformation practical, accessible, and impactful for Irish industry.

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DigiWind

DigiWind is a pioneering EU co-funded project under the Digital Europe Programme, designed to close the digital skills gap in the renewable energy sector. The project equips STEM professionals with advanced digital expertise.

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CIRCULÉIRE

Over 50 industry members leverage tailored tools, innovation funding, and cross-sector collaboration to scale circular solutions that boost competitiveness and support Ireland’s net-zero agenda.

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Driving Innovation Across Ireland’s Industries

We partner with companies across advanced manufacturing, aerospace, ICT, life sciences, energy, consumer goods, and more. Whatever your sector, IMR helps align new technologies to real-world production challenges.

Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering

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Aerospace, Logistics,
Transport

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Digital & Smart Technologies, Electronics

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Circular Economy, Energy, Sustainable Manufacturing

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Consumer Products, Materials, Packaging

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Life Sciences, Healthcare

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Trusted by 400+ Irish Startups, SMEs & MNCs

Why Partner With Us

On a personal level I have always been focused on both education and R&D sector (…) What IMR does – and does it very well – is keeping ahead of the trends. It’s very normal for technology that’s on the ground, for people to become familiar with it, but to be ahead of the trends and see what’s coming on the road is critical to be able to adapt and be able to plan for that; IMR does it extremely well.
Brian Cooney
Managing Director, KUKA
I find them forward thinking (…) to stay at the forefront of competitiveness, the services provided for AI digital transformation, the SIRI program and IoT are very important to us going forward.
Sharon Barrett
Senior Engineering Manager, Boston Scientific
Vodafone have benefited hugely from our partnership with IMR. If you sell services into manufacturing industry in Ireland, it’s a great place to showcase what you can do but also to build up those connections around the industry.
Chris Byrne
Network Innovation & Business Development Manager, Vodafone
Very effective – we carried out the GD&T course through IMR (…) and we solved a lot of our manufacturing issues through simple dimensioning of drawings as opposed to having to increase the cost of the part and tighten up tolerances and that sort of things.
Padraig Brosnan
Engineering Project Manager, Dromone
We are a young biotechnology company, so we are a partnership raising investment and we find the startup program that was coordinated by IMR very useful and that has helped us getting further, helped us on our investment journey. (Smart Industry Readiness Index, SIRI service)
Vincent Farrelly
CEO, Niskus Biotech
It was excellent, it helped us develop a technical strategy, it also told us where we were in the roadmap – at the time we didn’t know, we weren’t 100% sure – but it did identify our strengths which we actually hadn’t realised and it identified our weaknesses so we knew where we had to go. (Smart Industry Readiness Index, SIRI service)
Sean Ryan
Managing Director, Thormac Engineering
It’s critical – part of our journey is educating and upskilling our people and we do that through IMR in its various courses, whether it be through AI with Dr. Carlos Garcia or others. We are constantly in conversation with your team in relation to what’s coming up and I understand you are in collaboration with AMTCE and we have visited them and they have some courses as well which complement IMR’s ones.
Noel Dolan
Strategic Partnership and BD Officer, Gallarus Industry Solutions
We have availed of most of the services around research (…) the support has been fantastic, the communication has been good, we worked with particular point of contact who guides you through the journey, so it’s been amazing.
Rohit Thakral
CEO, Target Integration
I first came to IMR way back in the beginning when it was very little here, but over the years to see it grow it’s been amazing. We are a technical member of IMR and we encourage our customers to speak to IMR because there is some fantastic training and the level of this training has been excellent; from an operator training, the CNC training and the whole lot of it, from that point of view it has been excellent.
Thomas Kelly
General Manager, Hard Metal