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“Manufacturing is the engine of society, it is the backbone of a powerful, resilient economy,” said John Hart, head of the Department of Meche at MIT. “In today’s news, creating a vivid topic, people have a new understanding and understanding of the importance of manufacturing to innovation, economic and national security, and everyday life.”

INM launched this May, which will “grow talents through new technologies to help build a transformation in manufacturing and to drive adoption of new technologies and create good jobs by understanding how to expand manufacturing in ways that can give higher productivity and resilience.”

INM is one of MIT’s strategic initiatives and is based on a successful three-year manufacturing @MIT program. “This is acknowledged by MIT, manufacturing is a scoped institute subject and a scoped priority, and manufacturing connects campus faculty and students,” Hart said. Together with Hart, INM’s faculty co-directors are college professors Suzanne Berger and Chris Love, Professor Chris Love.

The initiative is pursuing four main themes: reimagining manufacturing technologies and systems, increasing manufacturing productivity and human experience, expanding new manufacturing industries and transforming manufacturing bases.

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Amgen, Autodesk, Flex, GE Vernova, PTC, Sanofi and Siemens are founding members of the INM industry consortium. These industry partners will work closely with MIT faculty, researchers and students in many aspects of many aspects of manufacturing-related research, including large-scale programs, especially areas of common interests. Membership requires a commitment of at least $500,000 per year for MIT’s manufacturing-related activities, including an INM membership fee of $275,000 per year, which supports several core activities that attract industry members.

A major force in INM industry collaboration is the deployment and adoption of AI and manufacturing automation. This work will include MIT’s seed research project, collaborative case studies and shared strategy development.

INM also participates in the MIT-wide new manufacturing research for the company, which is examining the trajectory of a specific manufacturing industry and examining cross-border topics such as technology and financing.

Additionally, INM will focus on education in all majors in manufacturing, and the alliance brings together companies, community colleges, government agencies and other partners. “We will expand our courses to a wider audience, from aspiring manufacturing workers and aspiring production line supervisors to engineers and executives,” Hart said.

In workforce training, INM will work with companies to help understand challenges and form their overall workforce agenda and to individuals with individuals that have specific challenges, such as the acquisition of appropriately prepared employees for new factories.

Importantly, industry partners will also interact directly with students. For example, founding member Flex hosted MIT researchers and students at the Flex Technology Institute in Sorocaba, Brazil, to develop new solutions for electronic manufacturing.

“History shows that you need to innovate in manufacturing along with innovation in your product,” Hart commented. “At MIT, as more and more students take manufacturing courses, they will be in deciding which research issues they want to solve, or what choices they make when prototyping equipment. The same is true for the industry – companies operating in the manufacturing sector, whether through internal functions or supply chains, are positioned in the product Innoerov Innovation Innovation Innovation Innovation Innovation and overall.

“We will have the opportunity to bring upstream manufacturing to the early stages of research, design new processes and new equipment, and keep scalability in mind,” he said.

In addition, MIT hopes to open new manufacturing-related laboratories and further expand cooperation with existing shared facilities industries such as MIT.Nano. Hart said the facility will also invite more stringent collaborations with the company – not only providing advanced equipment, but also co-developing new technologies for weaving textiles or accelerating battery manufacturing.

Home in the United States

INM is a global project with particular focus on the United States, which remains the world’s second largest manufacturing economy, but has seen a significant decline in manufacturing employment and innovation.

The key to reversing this trend and revitalizing a manufacturing base in the United States is the critical role of manufacturing in society and the career opportunities it provides.

“No one really doubts the importance of manufacturing,” Hart said. “But we need to increase interest in manufacturing, from production workers to manufacturing engineers and leaders through advocacy, education programs and advocacy from industry, government and academia.”

He noted that MIT is in a unique position to convene industry, academic and government stakeholders to jointly address this important issue in terms of manufacturing.

Furthermore, at a time when manufacturing is undergoing fundamental and rapid changes, “we need to focus on deploying new technologies into factories and supply chains,” Hart said. “Technology is not the whole solution, it’s about enabling the United States to expand our manufacturing base, and we need to do this with technology as a key driver and embrace companies of all sizes, including small and medium-sized enterprises.”

“As AI becomes more capable and automation becomes more flexible and more usable, these are key foundations where you can address manufacturing challenges,” he said. “AI and automation offer new accelerated approaches to developing, deploying and monitoring production processes that present tremendous opportunities and in some cases are necessary.”

“While manufacturing is always a combination of old technology, new technology, established practices and new ways of thinking, digital technology gives manufacturers the opportunity to surpass their competitors,” Hart said. “For the United States, any company or country, a company that aims to create differentiated capabilities are very, very powerful.”

Fortunately, in recent years, investors have increasingly invested in new manufacturing in the United States. “They see opportunities to reindustrialize, build factories and production systems in the future,” Hart said.

“That is, building a new manufacturing industry is capital-intensive and takes time,” he added. “So it’s about gathering stakeholders and thinking about how adult companies and growth stage companies build their capital portfolios, how large industries support the ecosystem of small and young companies and how talent can be developed to support those growing companies.”

All these concerns and opportunities in the manufacturing ecosystem play the strengths of MIT. “MIT’s interdisciplinary collaboration and the DNA that works with industry can make a big difference,” Hart stressed. “We can understand the practical challenges. We can also explore breakthrough ideas that research and foster successful outcomes all the way to new companies and partnerships. Sometimes these ideas are seen as different approaches, but we like to bring them together.”