Advanced Manufacturing
Integrating advanced materials, artificial intelligence, and digital engineering to strengthen economic competitiveness, energy security, and national defense.
Explore Advanced Manufacturing NewsDelivering Manufacturing Leadership and Capability for Critical Industries
Advanced manufacturing integrates technologies such as AI, robotics, high-performance computing, and advanced materials to design, produce, and qualify next-generation products and processes. At ORNL, manufacturing spans atoms to applications—connecting discovery science with scalable industrial solutions.
Through the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, ORNL partners with more than 300 companies to apply these capabilities in practice—delivering solutions that improve productivity, reduce cost and risk, and accelerate deployment of advanced technologies.
These efforts strengthen domestic manufacturing capability, secure supply chains, and support innovation across energy, defense, and critical infrastructure.
Partner With ORNL
Through technology transfer and collaborative research, ORNL works with industry, government, and academia to accelerate manufacturing innovation and deployment. From early-stage research to full-scale demonstration, ORNL helps partners reduce risk, scale new technologies, and bring advanced manufacturing solutions to market.
Driving Innovation Across America’s Most Critical Manufacturing Challenges
AI for Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence is transforming manufacturing by creating data-driven, adaptive systems. ORNL integrates machine learning, real-time sensing, and high-performance computing to optimize processes, accelerate qualification, and enable intelligent production systems that continuously improve.
Critical Minerals and Materials
Secure supply chains for critical minerals and materials are essential to energy, electronics, and defense systems. ORNL develops advanced manufacturing and processing solutions that enable scalable production—from domestic feedstocks to high-performance components.
Advanced Manufacturing for Energy Systems
Large-scale energy systems require new approaches for design, fabrication, and qualification. By combining advanced materials, AI, and digital engineering, ORNL reduces risk, strengthens supply chains, and accelerates deployment of nuclear, hydropower, and other energy technologies.
Defense Manufacturing
National security depends on the ability to produce and sustain complex, high-performance systems. ORNL enables rapid manufacturing and repair through integrated, adaptive platforms—enhancing readiness and resilience across the defense industrial base.
World-Class Capabilities
Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
A national test bed for advanced manufacturing research, MDF works closely with industry, academia, and government to develop and scale next-generation platform technologies.
Carbon Fiber Technology Facility
CFTF helps industry overcome barriers of advanced fiber cost, technology scaling, intermediate formation, and composite product and market development for energy, national security, and industrial applications.
Battery Manufacturing Facility
BMF supports the development and scale-up of next-generation battery technologies, providing capabilities for electrode fabrication, cell assembly, and performance validation.
Building Technologies Research and Integration Center
BTRIC accelerates affordable building system solutions by providing testing and diagnostic capabilities to develop and evaluate advanced equipment, automated construction technologies, and novel materials in realistic environments before market introduction.
National Transportation Research Center
NTRC provides world-class capabilities for developing and validating advanced transportation technologies, including powertrains, fuels, and vehicle systems, to improve safety, performance, and reliability across sectors.
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility
Home to world-leading supercomputing resources, OLCF enables AI-driven design, modeling, and simulation for manufacturing at unprecedented scale.
Spallation Neutron Source
SNS provides unique insights into material structure and performance, helping researchers understand and improve manufacturing processes at the atomic level.
High Flux Isotope Reactor
HFIR supports materials development and testing for extreme environments, including nuclear and defense applications.
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences
CNMS enables nanoscale design, synthesis, and characterization of materials critical to advanced manufacturing.