Manufacturing (IfM) aims to assist companies to grow and to increase their competitiveness across the business cycle, thereby helping industry to create wealth more effectively.

The Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) aims to assist companies to grow and to increase their competitiveness across the business cycle, thereby helping industry to create wealth more effectively.

Established in 1998 as part of the University of Cambridge, the IfM employs approximately 150 people delivering innovative research, high-calibre education and valuable services to industry. Specialist areas include Strategy and Performance, International Manufacturing, Economic Policy, Technology Management, Industrial Sustainability, Production Processes, Decision Support, and Automation and Control.

The IfM works with leading companies, large and small, including BAE SYSTEMS, Caterpillar, Domino Printing Sciences, GKN, GlaxoSmithKline, Herbert Group, ICI, Inca Digital, Philips, Michell Instruments Ltd and Rolls-Royce as well as having strong links to regional and national government bodies in the UK and abroad.