Manufacturing@MIT

Are you an established or startup manufacturing company? A current or prospective member of the manufacturing workforce? An educator helping drive the future of manufacturing? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, then join us at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative 2024 Massachusetts Mash-Up Wed, Sep 25 at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough MA. We can’t wait to hear from the impressive array of speakers. MIT’s Dr. Elisabeth Reynolds will deliver the opening keynote, “U.S. Manufacturing at a Crossroads: Building an Industrial Base for the 21st Century” with Re:Build Manufacturing CEO Miles Arnone. Learn more and register here: https://mashupmfg.org/ #mit #manufacturing

From pioneering deep space exploration to electrifying the automotive industry to building humanoid robots, manufacturing technology provides the vision, tools, and foundation powering the future. We are pleased to invite the Manufacturing@MIT community to IMTS 2024. With more than 100,000 attendees, the International Manufacturing Technology Show—Sep 9-14 in Chicago—is the largest manufacturing trade show in the Western Hemisphere and a place to discover innovations and attend educational sessions from NASA, BlueForge Alliance, and many more including MIT’s Dr. John Liu on training a technologist workforce and MIT MIMO’s Bruce Lawler on using AI and analytics to gain a competitive edge. All MIT community members receive a 50% discount on registration with code IMTSMIT. To learn more, visit: https://www.imts.com/ #mit #manufacturing #imts #IMTS2024

Issue #3 of Manufacturing Update is now live! https://lnkd.in/dXWgS-2g Co-edited by MIT’s William B. Bonvillian and by American Affairs contributing editor David Adler, “Manufacturing Update” is a periodic newsletter summarizing and excerpting a small collection of recent articles on manufacturing technology, management, economics, and policy developments in the US and abroad. #mit #manufacturing

A holistic view of manufacturing begins with raw materials and continues through disposal or recycling. The recycling of flexible electronics caught the eye of MIT professor of materials science and engineering Professor Thomas Wallinas and his team. Used for example in robotics, wearables, and health monitors, these innovative electronics typically rely on polyimide materials for their construction. The team developed a novel alternative polyimide that promises dramatic improvements not just in recycling, but also in manufacturing. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g_YBtFCS #mit #manufacturing #recycling

The technology to rapidly print hundreds of different materials has been with us for years. The technology to characterize those materials and identify top performers has not. Enter professor of mechanical engineering Tonio Buonassisi, his research team, and a new computer vision technique that enables an 85X improvement in characterization speed. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dSp5sBd5 #mit #manufacturing #semiconductors

Steel is everywhere. In cars. In buildings. In bridges. One place it isn’t—on the roadmap of most environmentalists. Steelmaking accounts for almost 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But not if Boston Metal has its way. The company, which counts MIT professors Donald Sadoway and Antoine Allanore among its founders, uses an electrochemical process called molten oxide electrolysis (MOE) to streamline the steelmaking process and dramatically reduce emissions. Learn more about what happens within the company’s school bus-sized MOE cells here: https://lnkd.in/dxVgbBV6 Check out our Manufacturing Update newsletter and subscribe for free: https://lnkd.in/egxKh9yX #mit #manufacturing #energy #steel

We’re launching a Substack newsletter titled “Manufacturing Update.” We’ll post summaries of and links to a small collection of recent articles on manufacturing technology, management, economics, and policy developments in the US and abroad that we think will be of interest. We’ve been sharing articles and our thoughts on them with our Manufacturing@MIT colleagues. Now we want to share them with you. Read the first newsletter and subscribe for free: https://lnkd.in/eiGW9Ugw

Several manufacturing experts with MIT affiliations—including William B. Bonvillian, A. John Hart, Bruce Lawler, and Elisabeth Reynolds—made key contributions to the “National Action Plan for United States Leadership Advanced Manufacturing” authored by the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP). From the report’s letter from SCSP Chairman Eric Schmidt and President/CEO Ylli Bajraktari: “Prudence requires that the United States rebuild its advanced manufacturing ecosystem—including both the know-how and capacity to build things that the country needs. We can do this by applying technology to the manufacturing process at scale. The passage of landmark legislation such as the CHIPS & Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act serves as a starting point, but additional efforts are needed to accelerate innovation in manufacturing processes and drive the deployment of advanced manufacturing technologies.” The full report is available here: https://lnkd.in/eQEbfSex Tag: Ira Moskowitz #mit #manufacturing

Consumer batteries power devices ranging from mobile phones to hearing aids. Heat is an unwanted byproduct. In industry, however, heat—and a lot of it—is sometimes the objective. Heat generation (and not its avoidance) is the focus of Electrified Thermal Solutions, co-founded by Joey Kabel and MIT graduate Daniel Stack with guidance from Stack’s advisor, MIT professor of nuclear engineering Charles Forsberg. Their elevator-sized Joule Hive product consists of a metal case with dozens of ceramic bricks that can reach 1800 degrees F and hold that heat for days. The thermal battery can draw on electricity generated from renewable resources to replace the coal typically used, for example, in the energy-intensive production of cement. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/ect64W3s #mit #manufacturing