Irish Manufacturing Research
Irish Manufacturing Research

Ireland: Eastern and Midland (Ireland)

Overview

IMR's goal is to Demystify, Derisk and Deliver emerging technologies and new knowledge to enable industry to succeed at the cutting edge of advanced manufacturing.

Pillar 1: Automation & Control

Vision   Self-adaptive autonomous automation

Enabling manufacturers to be globally competitive through step change improvements in productivity and quality manufacturing through automation and robotics. The Mullingar Pilot Lines provide a national test bed for the development of automation and control applications across a broad range of industries.

Pillar 2: Design for Manufacturing

Vision   Customer-defined manufacturing

Supporting industry to design and produce using advanced digital toolsets and technologies such as 3D printing, advanced machining and full product lifecycle management, to create novel products and processes designed around great customer experiences.

Pillar 3: Digitisation 

Vision  Data driven business

Accelerating the evolution towards Industry 4.0 and… IMR provide a range of equipment from our facilities in Dublin and Westmeath, Ireland. The main innovation space in Dublin has over 1000m2 of office/lab space, with a further 4000m2 of office/lab space in Westmeath.

IMR Facilities includes (but is not limited to) the following:

Labs

Additive Manufacturing Lab in Mullingar
Cobotics lab in Mullingar

Training Rooms

1 training room for outreach programmes in Westmeath
1 training room in Westmeath

Meeting Rooms

4 meeting rooms in Dublin
3 meeting rooms in Westmeath

Coffee & Chat: 

 

1 Coffee & Chat area in Dublin & Westmeath

IMR Equipment includes (but is not limited to) the following: 

Carbon 3D M2 
End Effectors
EOS P396
Hermle C42 UMT
KUKA iiwa KMR
KUKA KR3 AGILUS
Microsoft Hololens
Renishaw RenAM 500M
Universal Robots
Virtual Reality Hardware
Vision Systems

 
. IMR Services includes (but is not limited to) the following: 

Industrial Research
Training
Specialist Consultancy
Specialist Manufacturing Services
Industry Network
Funding Opportunities
Brokerage and Business Linkages
Incubator

Detailed example: Funding Opportunities

In 2020 IMR launched and is effectively operating a suite of complimentary services to support competitive funding to manufacturing industry. The service is provided by the business development (BD) team online and from both IMR locations. The service is designed to support Irish manufacturing industry, particularly SMEs.

Freemium services for IMR Community Members

1-to-1 Funding Clinic taking the industry partner through the exact grant options available for to their company (1hr online);
1-page Funding Intelligence Report containing a summary of the information and links related to the company’s project pipeline; and
Exclusive access to 1 Industry Funding Workshop & 2 EU/National consortia* coordinated…. Yes. service.

Sectors
Manufacturing
Technology
Advanced Manufacturing - Additive manufacturing - High performance computing / cloud-based simulation services - High-performance, high precision processing - High-performance production (flexibility, productivity, precision and zero defect) - Intelligent/ sensor-based equipment - Monitoring and control - Process industry (processing of novel materials, structures, etc.) - Robotics / Human machine interaction - Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0 - Advanced Materials - Electronic and optical functional materials - Environmental materials (e.g. recycling, recourse efficiency, less impact, CO2 capture/ utilisation) - High performance materials (strong, light weight, resistant) - Industrial materials (incl. catalysts, membranes, adhesives, filters) - Materials for energy storage and generation - Smart and multifunctional materials (incl. phase change, shape memory, self-healing, self-manufacturing) - Surface engineering and coatings - Industrial Biotech - Biobased plastics - Polymers, bioplastics - Analogue and mixed signal devices (µ-wave, RF, THz) - Computing (low power computing, high performance computing, new computing (non von Neumann, beyond CMOS, beyond Moore)) - Equipment technology - Heterogeneous components & more than Moore (MEMS, NEMS, sensors, transducers) - Heterogeneous integration/embedded systems - Memory and storage - Outsides system connectivity (communication, data transfer, wifi) - Power electronics - Printed/flexible electronics - 2D materials - Photonics - Displays (LCD, plasma) - Laser based applications - Lighting (LED, OLED) - Optical fibres - AR/VR - Augmented Reality - Mixed Reality - Virtual Reality - Artificial intelligence - Biometrics - Deep learning - Decision management - Natural Language Processing - Smart control - Video / image processing - Virtual agents - Big data - Data analytics (predictive analysis, in-memory analytics, network analysis, advanced cluster analysis) - Data management (acquisition, extraction and integration) - Machine learning - Text & data mining - Block chain - Cloud - Infrastructure-as-a-service - Platform-as-a-service - Software-as-a-service - IoT - Advanced sensor technologies - Broadband network technologies (e.g. 5G, 4G, Wifi) - Edge computing - Mobility - Automated vehicles, guided carts, trailer loading, vessels - Robotics - Collaborative robots - Industrial robots - Security and connectivity - Network security - Other
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