Flex, the Texas-based global manufacturing and supply chain services firm, has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ‘s newly launched Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM)—a bold, institute-wide collaboration aimed at revitalizing American industrial capabilities. As one of six founding members of INM’s Industry Consortium—alongside Amgen, GE Vernova, Siemens, PTC, and Sanofi—Flex is aligning itself with academia and industry to drive a transformation of manufacturing through artificial intelligence, machine learning, and scalable systems innovation.