Cian McCorley brings more than 20 years of manufacturing & automation experience to his role as Principal Investigator for Project ACCESS, an Enterprise Ireland commercialisation initiative at Irish Manufacturing Research. He leads a multidisciplinary team – driving engineering execution, product strategy and innovation – while ensuring every design decision starts with the customer’s pain-points. With a career that spans manufacturing engineering, robotics R&D and industrial-automation, Cian specialises in turning cutting-edge research into practical, high-impact, industrial solutions.