Our advisory services are state funded. They help leaders to de-risk change and understand the return on technology investments.
Businesses of all sizes interested in advancing their manufacturing and supply chain processes can get in touch with us today to scope out what we can do together.
Interested in seeing what we can do together?
Email info@aimcentre.ie
We help businesses navigate challenges like
How can we use technologies like AI and machine learning to improve product quality?
Which manufacturing processes offer the biggest return on investment to modernise with technology?
How can we prepare our workforce to embrace new technologies?
How can we transform our manufacturing lines to be more circular?
How can we use data to bring more agility into our supply chain to reduce disruption?
How our advisory services work
We bring together the right expertise to help you tackle them.
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We bring the right expertise in and use our Industry 4.0 research initiatives to identify high-value use cases you can focus on.
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We form a team of business, technology and design experts who can explore a potential solution. We rapidly prototype technical solutions using design thinking methodologies.
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Our business experts help you to build the business case for investment, highlighting the scope for application, the road to get there and available grant supports you might be eligible for.
Check our some of our projects below:
RE:FLEX
RE:FLEX looks at testing SME flexibility potential in renewable driven electricity markets.
The project aims to demonstrate how energy-intensive SMEs can optimise business performance in renewable-driven electricity systems while reducing GHG emissions and maintaining outputs.
The project tests how SMEs can align with periods of higher renewable availability, reducing reliance on fossil marginal generation and avoiding renewable curtailment. Using AI-enabled modelling and pilot testing, project delivers transferable evidence on SME flexibility, operational limits and carbon impacts.
RE:FLEX launched 1 September 2026, project duration is 30 months Interreg NPA project.
Nordic Bridge
Nordic Bridge connects universities with society by supporting students and researchers to work together on real-world projects that drive regional innovation and sustainability, strengthen cross-border collaboration, retain talent in the Northern Periphery and Arctic, and promote inclusive, knowledge-based growth.
In Ireland, the AIM Centre and Atlantic Technological University play leading roles, using their expertise in digital innovation, regional development, and industry collaboration to build a sustainable, long-term partnership model connecting education, industry, and communities with international partners.
Nordic Bridge launched 1 April 2025, project duration is 36 months Interreg NPA project.
Sustainable SMEs
The Sustainable SMEs is an Interreg NPA project that aims to enhance small and medium-sized enterprises’ competitiveness, market reach, and sustainable growth by improving their sustainability reporting capabilities.
As new EU regulations, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), require comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) documentation, SMEs across the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) region face new challenges and opportunities.
This project began 1 April 2025 and will be completed 31 March 2028.
ASTRIC
The main aim of the Attract Skills and Talent through Regional Innovation Capacity insights (ASTRIC) project is to fast demonstrate the METRIC tool, that measures and improves the innovation capacity of ecosystems, as part of the Interreg Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme.
ASTRIC launched on October 1st 2024, with AIM Centre acting as a partner within the 18 month project.
Arctic Edge
Arctic Edge aims to enhance supply chain operations in remote and rural regions of the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) area including the North-West of Ireland.
Launched in September 2024, AIM Centre will lead the way in this initiative.
Interested in exploring how automation might improve processes and increase productivity?
RoboDemo is a fully funded 8-week strategy research project that helps businesses identify the solution and build the business case for investment.
RoboDemo
