CIMR was established to advance knowledge and nurture technically-grounded leaders and innovators to serve societal needs, with a focus on sustainable manufacturing, through an integrated multi-disciplinary research, collaboration between different industries, competitors, vendors and customers at solving tough commercial problems. The primary focus of CIMR is to train the faculty and students in developing and making systemically-complex, technologically-intensive, and socially-impactful solutions that are functional, aesthetic, usable and sustainable. It is also focused to strengthen the research at VIT by adding value, effecting knowledge transfer, generating intellectual property, and raising new technologies through the innovative manufacturing research.