Enablers of exceptional change

Welcome to IfM Engage

Where world-leading experts collaborate to
accelerate the manufacturing industry.

Develop a manufacturing footprint strategy

Reconfigure your global supply chains using our established four-stage process.

Make confident automation decisions

Discover a quick yet robust way to consider how automation could help your organisation.

Strategic sense-making

Bring structure to complex strategic issues through the power of roadmapping.

Enablers of exceptional change

Welcome to IfM Engage

Where world-leading experts collaborate to
accelerate the manufacturing industry.

Develop a manufacturing footprint strategy

Reconfigure your global supply chains using our established four-stage process.

Make confident automation decisions

Discover a quick yet robust way to consider how automation could help your organisation.

Strategic sense-making

Bring structure to complex strategic issues through the power of roadmapping.

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE + INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

IfM Engage partners with organisations across industry, government and academia to support them in solving complex challenges, using approaches and knowledge developed at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), a division of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering. IfM Engage offerings are grounded in exceptional research, combined with a breadth of industrial expertise.

Our mission is knowledge transfer, helping the people and organisations we work with to develop their capabilities and build the future of manufacturing.

RESEARCH EXCELLENCE + INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

IfM Engage partners with organisations across industry, government and academia to support them in solving complex challenges, using approaches and knowledge developed at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), a division of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering. IfM Engage offerings are grounded in exceptional research, combined with a breadth of industrial expertise.

Our mission is knowledge transfer, helping the people and organisations we work with to develop their capabilities and build the future of manufacturing.

WHAT CHALLENGE ARE YOU FACING?

We empower organisations with insights, knowledge, techniques and practical solutions to overcome complex challenges.

Supply Chains

FEATURED SOLUTIONS

We have a wide range of proven approaches and tools which our industrial experts tailor to help organisations achieve their goals.

Roadmapping
Automation assessment
Professional development
Manufacturing footprint strategy

Roadmapping

Automation assessment

Professional development

Manufacturing footprint strategy

Create strategy and gain alignment and action across your organisation through IfM’s established and agile approach to roadmapping.

Make confident automation decisions utilising IfM’s robust Automation Assessment Tool based on University of Cambridge research and applied by industry experts.

Through our open and bespoke courses, individuals and teams can advance their knowledge, capabilities and skills in practice.

Optimise your global production networks and reduce costs through our established manufacturing footprint approach for global supply chain reconfiguration.

FEATURED SOLUTIONS

We have a wide range of proven approaches and tools which our industrial experts tailor to help organisations achieve their goals.

Roadmapping

Roadmapping

Create strategy and gain alignment and action across your organisation through IfM’s established and agile approach to roadmapping.

Automation assessment
Automation assessment

Make confident automation decisions utilising IfM’s robust Automation Assessment Tool based on University of Cambridge research and applied by industry experts.

Professional development

Professional development

Through our open and bespoke courses, individuals and teams can advance their knowledge, capabilities and skills in practice.

Manufacturing footprint strategy

Manufacturing footprint strategy

Optimise your global production networks and reduce costs through our established manufacturing footprint approach for global supply chain reconfiguration.

WHO WE WORK WITH

Who we work with

WHO WE WORK WITH

FEATURED COURSES

Making the right thing

SUPPLY CHAINS

Making the right things in the right places

Roadmapping course

ROADMAPPING

Roadmapping for strategy and innovation

SUSTAINABILITY

Weathering the climate crisis

FEATURED COURSES

SUPPLY CHAINS

Making the right things in the right places

ROADMAPPING

Roadmapping for strategy and innovation

SUSTAINABILITY

Weathering the climate crisis

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