U.S. manufacturing is in “pretty bad shape.” MIT hopes to change that // Manufacturing Dive
In an effort to help “build the tools and talent to shape a more productive and sustainable future for manufacturing,” MIT has launched the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM). “We have low tech, low skill, low wages, low productivity, and you can’t really fix any one of these pieces without trying to really pull this ‘knot’ apart,” explains Institute Professor Suzanne Berger. “And, the question is, how do we do that?” To help accelerate technology adoption and manufacturing productivity, the INM has “mapped out a series of education and industry partnership programs, including plans to establish new labs and a “factory observation” effort that allows students to visit production sites.”
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