MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing

Transforming manufacturing for higher productivity, better jobs, and greater resilience

INM is an MIT-wide effort that drives research, education, and collaborations to transform the future of manufacturing in the United States and beyond.

Reimagining Manufacturing Technologies and Systems

Realizing breakthrough manufacturing approaches to advance energy production, health care, computing, consumer products, and more.

Elevating the Productivity and Experience of Manufacturing

Developing and deploying new digitally driven methods and tools to amplify productivity and improve the human experience of manufacturing.

Scaling New Manufacturing

Accelerating the scaling of manufacturing companies and transforming supply chains to maximize efficiency and resilience, fostering product innovation and business growth.

Transforming the Manufacturing Base

Driving the deployment of a sustainable global manufacturing ecosystem that provides compelling opportunities to workers, with major efforts focused on the United States.

“I’m convinced that there is no more important work we can do to meet the moment and serve the nation now.”
Sally Kornbluth, MIT President

Core Activities

The MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) will redefine what’s possible in manufacturing. Through bold research, hands-on training, and deep industry collaboration, INM will build the tools, systems, and talent to shape a more productive, sustainable, and resilient future.

New Manufacturing Research

Charting technologies and cross-cutting themes through an MIT-wide program

Education and Workforce

Developing new courses and curricula for MIT students, along with workforce training at scale

Frontier Technologies and Systems

Supporting breakthrough research and catalyzing entrepreneurship in manufacturing

Industry Engagement

Collaborating closely with companies, from large to small, to drive industry transformation

Laboratories and Observatories

Building shared facilities, pilot production lines, and immersive manufacturing experiences

Community Events

Organizing symposia, a distinguished speaker series, and collaborative workshops

INM’s industry members are leading companies from across sectors that will work with MIT to shape the initiative’s priorities, foster talent development, and accelerate impact. INM announced its first founding members in May 2025.

INM Team

INM is guided by a cross-disciplinary team of faculty and advisors with deep expertise across engineering, the social sciences, management, and more. The initiative reports to the Office of Innovation and Strategy. This structure ensures alignment with Institute priorities, and enables INM to drive collaboration and impact across MIT and beyond. INM is forming a faculty steering committee with membership from all Schools and the College of Computing.

**Suzanne Berger**
Institute Professor; Faculty co-director, INM
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**John Hart**
Professor and Department Head, Mechanical Engineering; Faculty co-director, INM
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**Chris Love**
Professor, Chemical Engineering; Faculty co-director, INM
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**Yanchong Karen Zheng**
George M. Bunker Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Faculty co-director, INM

**Richard M. Locke**
John C Head Dean III, MIT Sloan School of Management; Steering Committee co-chair, INM
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**Paula Hammond**
Institute Professor, Vice Provost for Faculty; Steering Committee co-chair, INM
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**Julie Diop**
Executive Director, INM
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INM Origins

INM grew from a faculty-led effort to rethink how manufacturing can meet today’s biggest challenges. Through symposia, workshops , and a distinguished speaker series , members of the MIT community discussed the future of “new manufacturing”, alongside ideas in workforce training, advanced technologies, and industry collaboration—laying the foundation for a bold, Institute-wide initiative.

With support from President Kornbluth, a faculty study group shaped the vision that became INM. Launched in 2025, the initiative draws on MIT’s cross-disciplinary strengths to help transform the industrial base. INM seeks to drive production technologies, systems, and organizational approaches that improve energy production, health and life sciences, computing infrastructure, national security, the built environment, and more.

Manufacturing at MIT

MIT seeks to drive innovation across vital manufacturing sectors. Read more on MIT News

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MIT President Sally Kornbluth’s remarks at the launch of the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing

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