5 月,，新制造业计划 (INM) 通过麻省理工学院制造周, 庆祝其一周年，为期四天的活动吸引了 800 多名注册者，包括学生, 教师, 行业领袖, 投资者, 企业家, 和政府官员，探讨的主题包括公司如何在工厂车间使用人工智能，以及初创公司在将创新引入新的劳动力解决方案以解决工人短缺方面的作用等。
In May, the Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM) marked its first anniversary with MIT Manufacturing Week, four days of events that attracted more than 800 registrants including students, faculty, industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and government officials to explore topics ranging from how companies are using AI on factory floors to the role of startups in introducing innovation to new workforce solutions to address the worker shortage.
本周以由 INM 和 Google Cloud 共同为该倡议的 行业成员举办的网络安全研讨会拉开帷幕。随后举行了麻省理工学院 MIMO(制造运营机器智能)研讨会，重点讨论在工厂车间部署人工智能,，同时讨论劳动力发展,新兴技术,初创公司,和工业转型。本周以区域研究展示和竞赛结束，吸引了来自新英格兰各地的 140 多名研究生和博士后。
The week opened with a cybersecurity workshop co-led by INM and Google Cloud for the initiative的 industry members. It continued with the MIT MIMO (Machine Intelligence for Manufacturing Operations) symposium focused on deploying artificial intelligence on factory floors, alongside discussions on workforce development, emerging technologies, startups, and industrial transformation. The week closed with a regional research showcase and competition that drew more than 140 graduate students and postdocs from across New England.
在过去的一年中，, INM 还继续其杰出的演讲系列，其中包括制造领导者，包括 Anduril; 的 Keith Flynn, 制造高级副总裁 Roland Busch, 西门子; 的总裁兼首席执行官和 Nike 的 Venky Alagirisamy, 首席运营官。
Over the past year, INM has also continued its distinguished speaker series featuring manufacturing leaders including Keith Flynn, senior vice president of manufacturing at Anduril; Roland Busch, president and CEO of Siemens; and Venky Alagirisamy, COO of Nike.
激励新一代制造初创企业
Inspiring a new generation of manufacturing startups
INM 的中心目标是帮助更多学生将制造业视为科学发现, 技术创新, 创业, 和社会影响的前沿。
A central goal of INM is to help more students see manufacturing as a frontier for scientific discovery, technological innovation, entrepreneurship, and societal impact.
为了支持这一努力, INM 正在启动和领导计划，以帮助将早期想法和新技术从实验室转移到现实世界的开发, 并促进新的制造公司的发展。
To support that effort, INM is launching and leading programs to help move early-stage ideas and new technologies from the lab to real-world development, and to catalyze new manufacturing companies.
今年, INM 与 NSF I-Corps New England, 合作，帮助研究人员将他们的创业想法转化为公司, 举办其首次制造研究展示会。来自新英格兰地区 17 所大学的 140 多个团队申请参加。 40 支入围团队接受了有关其想法的指导，并晋级决赛,，其中 8 支团队分享了 $50,000 的奖金。
This year, INM partnered with NSF I-Corps New England, which helps researchers turn their startup ideas into companies, to host its first manufacturing research showcase. More than 140 teams from 17 universities across New England applied to participate. Forty finalist teams received mentorship on their ideas and advanced to the final competition, where eight teams shared $50,000 in prize funding.
“ 最具变革性创新” 类别的最高奖项授予了麻省理工学院博士生 Jake Read 的 “G 代码的结尾,”，该项目专注于模块化机器控制架构，旨在加速新制造设备和流程的开发。麻省理工学院的 Vatsal Patel 和耶鲁大学的 Joshua Grace 凭借 “VisFT,” 可扩展六轴力扭矩传感器荣获卓越研究类别, 最高奖。
The top prize in the category “most transformative innovation” went to MIT PhD student Jake Read for “The End of G Code,” a project focused on modular machine control architectures designed to accelerate the development of new manufacturing equipment and processes. Vatsal Patel from MIT and Joshua Grace from Yale University won the top prize in the research excellence category, for “VisFT,” scalable six-axis force-torque sensors.
参赛团队提出的项目主题包括用于制造,半导体制造和过程控制,机器人和自主装配,数字孪生和模拟,新材料,增材制造,下一代造船,和生物制造的人工智能工具。
Project themes presented by participating teams included AI tools for manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing and process control, robotics and autonomous assembly, digital twins and simulation, new materials, additive manufacturing, next-generation shipbuilding, and biomanufacturing.
成武基金会支持了这次展览。
The Cheng Wu Foundation supported the showcase.
During MIT Manufacturing Week, First Solar became INM的 eighth industry member, joining Amgen, Autodesk, GE Vernova, Flex, PTC, Sanofi and Siemens.
INM 联盟的发展反映了一种更广泛的认识，即现代制造业 — 面临的从供应链弹性到劳动力发展和工业竞争力 — 的挑战过于复杂，任何单一部门或公司都无法单独应对。
The growth of INM的 consortium reflects a broader recognition that the challenges facing modern manufacturing — from supply chain resilience to workforce development and industrial competitiveness — are too complex for any single sector or company to address alone.
这反映了在人工智能,机器人,能源系统,和先进材料正在改变工业生产的时刻，人们对制造业重新产生了兴趣。 INM 提供了一个召集和提供解决方案的平台。
This reflects renewed interest in manufacturing at a moment when advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, energy systems, and advanced materials are transforming industrial production. INM provides a platform to convene and provide solutions.