The contract building company Flex, based in Texas, has joined a group of six companies that work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with) to advance the future of manufacturing with AI and automation, the company said.
As part of the agreement, Flex will work with the initiative of the school for New Manufacturing (inm), an initiative that started in May to transform the country's industrial basis by working together the future of “new manufacturing” and ideas in workers, progress technologies and industries.
Other companies in the inm group of founding industry consortium are members: Amgen, GE Vernova, PTC, Sanofi and Siemens.
As one of these six companies, Flex said that it will work closely with the co-researchers, educators and colleagues to support projects that use AI, machine automation and new approaches at system level. Through this approach, the partners plan to re -increase industrial production, to promote innovation through advanced technologies and to strengthen the competitiveness of the US production.
Inm will also set up new laboratories for the development of advanced manufacturing tools and techniques. With a “Factory Observatory” program, the students gain practical experience by attending Flex production locations. Regardless of this, Flex will organize the with faculty, researcher and Masters of Engineering (Meng) in its Sorocaba, Brazil location, where you have the opportunity to work with FIT (Flex Institute of Technology), a non-profit research and development institute, on the development of technological solutions for the production of electronics and related end products.
According to founding member Siemens, there is a time when production after decades -long offshoring -offshoring in the USA again becomes a strategic ability. In the next three years, Siemens will be 1.5 million US dollars to finance research, innovation and training through in the assembly line.
“Adaptive production is more than just one vision – it is a necessity,” said Peter Koerte, member of the managing director, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Strategy Officer from Siemens, in a press release. “Since the American industry is facing growing challenges, we need technologies that can react in real time. This collaboration with MIT brings together the best of research and real implementation. Together we lay the basis for a new era of the resilient, AI-powered manufacturing-built.”