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, led by Prof. Anantha Chandraksan, MIT’s Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer. This structure ensures alignment with Institute priorities, and enables INM to drive collaboration and impact across MIT and beyond. INM is continuing to build its leadership team and is forming a faculty steering committee with membership from all Schools and the College of Computing.
Institute Professor; Faculty co-director, INM
Professor and Department Head, Mechanical Engineering; Faculty co-director, INM
Professor of Chemical Engineering; Faculty co-director, INM
Executive Director, INM
Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer
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.
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Manufacturing at MIT
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MIT President Sally Kornbluth’s remarks at the launch of the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing