Mit launched her today Initiative for new manufacturing (INM), an effort on the scale of the Institute to reinfuse American industrial production with advanced technologies, strengthen crucial American economic sectors and light the creation of jobs.
The initiative will include advanced research, innovative education programs and a partnership with companies in many sectors, in order to help transform manufacturing and to raise its impact.
“We want to work with large and small companies, in cities, small cities and everywhere between the two, to help them adopt new approaches for increased productivity,” the president of MIT Sally A. Kornbluth wrote in a letter to the Institute community this morning. “We want to deliberately design high -quality manufacturing jobs and centered on man who bring new life to communities across the country.”
Kornbluth added: “Helping America to build a future of new manufacturing is a perfect work for MIT – and I am convinced that there is no more work that we can do to meet the moment and serve the nation now.”
The new manufacturing initiative has also announced its first six members of the founding industry consortium: AMGEN, FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL USA, GE VERNOVA, PTC, SANOFI and SIEMENS. Participants in the INMM Industry Consortium will support the seed projects offered by MIT researchers, initially in the field of artificial intelligence for manufacturing.
INM joins the ranks of other MIT presidential initiatives – including The climate project at MIT; Mithicwhich supports man -centered disciplines; Mit healedcentered on life and health sciences; And MgaicMIT Generative IA Impact Consortium.
“There is a formidable opportunity to bring together a dynamic community working on all scales – from nanotechnology to large -scale manufacturing – and through a wide range of applications, including semiconductors, medical devices, automotive, energy systems and biotechnology” and engineering of Aantha Chandrakasan, the main officer of innovation and MIT strategy. “MIT is only well placed to exploit the transforming power of digital tools and AI to shape the future of manufacturing. I am really enthusiastic about what we can build together and the synergies that this creates with other cross initiatives from the Institute. ”
The initiative is only the last effort focused on the past decades aimed at extending American manufacturing. A faculty research group wrote the 1989 bestseller “Made in America: repaining the productive edge“, Pleading for a renewal of manufacturing; Another MIT project, called Production in the innovation economycalled for an extended manufacturing in the early 2010s. In 2016, the MIT also founded The engineAn investing venture capital fund in “difficult technology” start-ups based on equipment, including many, which is potential to become substantial manufacturing companies.
As developed, the MIT initiative for new manufacturing is based on four major themes:
- Reinventing technologies and manufacturing systems: carrying out revolutionary technologies and approaches to the system to advance energy production, health care, IT, transport, consumer products, etc.
- Raise productivity and experience of manufacturing: develop and deploy new methods and tools, digitally directed to amplify productivity and improve the human experience of manufacturing;
- New manufacturing scale: accelerate the scale of manufacturing companies and transform supply chains to maximize efficiency and resilience, promoting product innovation and business growth; And
- Transforming the manufacturing base: lead the deployment of a sustainable global manufacturing ecosystem which offers convincing opportunities to workers, with major efforts focused on the United States
The initiative has mapped numerous concrete activities and programs, which will include a research program at the Institute on emerging technologies and other major subjects; Labor and education programs; and the commitment and participation of the industry. INM also aims to establish new laboratories to develop manufacturing tools and techniques; A “factory observatory” program which plunges students into manufacturing by visits to production sites; And key “pillars” by focusing on the areas of semiconductors and the defense and aviation bioprometer.
The ENMI labor and education element will include Techamp, a program created by MIT that works with community colleges to fill the gap between technicians and engineers; Teaching tools focused on AI; vocational education; And an effort to extend manufacturing education on campus in collaboration with MIT departments and study programs.
The INME management team has three co-directors of teachers: John Hart, the 1922 class teacher and head of the mechanical engineering department; Suzanne Berger, professor of the Institute at MIT and political scientist who conducted influential empirical studies of manufacturing; And Chris Love, The Raymond A. and Helen E. St. Laurent professor of chemical genius. The executive director of the initiative is Julie Diop.
The initiative is in the process of forming a faculty steering committee with a representation of the Institute, as well as an external advisory committee. INM is partly resulting from the work of the Manufacturing @ MIT working group, trained in 2022 to assess many of these problems.
The launch of the new initiative was previewed in a MIT symposium on May 7, entitled “A vision of new manufacturing”. The event, held in front of an audience of capacity of the MIT Wong auditorium, presented more than 30 speakers from a wide range of manufacturing sectors.
“The justification for the growth and transformation of American manufacturing has never been more urgent than it is today,” said Berger during the event. “What we are trying to build at the MIT now is not only another research project. … Together, with people from this room and outside this room, we try to change what is happening in our country.”
“We must think again about the importance of manufacturing, because this is what brings people to people,” said Love News put. “For example, in biotechnology, new vital drugs cannot reach patients without manufacturing. In this area.
Hart adds: “Although manufacturing feels very opportune today, it is of lasting importance. Manufactured products allow our daily life and manufacturing is essential to advance the boundaries of technology and society. Our efforts to launch the initiative revealed great excitement about manufacturing through MIT, especially from students. Work with industry – small to large businesses and the vision of young industrial giants.
In his letter to the MIT community today, Kornbluth stressed that the objective of the initiative is to stimulate transformation by making manufacturing more productive, resilient and sustainable.
“We want to reinvent technologies and manufacturing systems to advance areas such as energy production, health care, IT, transport, consumer products, etc.”, she wrote. “And we want to reach far beyond the workshop to meet challenges such as how to make supply chains more resilient, and how to enlighten public policies to promote a large healthy manufacturing ecosystem which can lead decades of innovation and growth.”
