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Workforce Development

How automation and good jobs can co-exist

Image courtesy: Brett Sayles

Discrete Manufacturing

Introducing digital technology in the workplace

Courtesy: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT

Cybersecurity strategies need to be measured

Leaders of MIT’s Task Force on the Work of the Future (Left to right): co-chair David A. Mindell, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT; executive director Elisabeth Beck Reynolds PhD ‘10, who is also executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center; and co-chair David Autor, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and associate head of MIT’s Department of Economics. Courtesy: Melanie Gonick, MIT

Educational Facilities

Task force discusses the changing world of work due to COVID-19

Courtesy: CFE Media and Technology

Study finds robots help some manufacturers even while workers struggle

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Study examines how many jobs robots replace

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Discrete Manufacturing

Manufacturing, supply chain face uncertain future due to coronavirus

“People are worried about the food supply chain,” said MIT supply chain expert Yossi Sheffi, who is the Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, a professor in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. “However, the U.S. food supply chain is very robust.” Courtesy: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT

Coronavirus’ effect on supply chain varies by industry, according to expert