As an institute of the National Research Council, STIIMA has the institutional tasks of performing, promoting, disseminating and improving research activities for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country. According to the vision expressed above about Manufacturing, STIIMA’s mission addresses specific research activities on enabling technologies, processes and products, which are integrated in a factory-level framework, in order to strengthen the competitiveness of the national economic system and to support the development of new employment, prosperity, sustainability and social cohesion.