“Expanding involvement with technical schools, development centers and universities is central to that objective. We hope to educate and train the future industry workforce in the use of linear, rotary, and angle encoder technology, control electronics technology, and related system integration.
HEIDENHAIN will promote the use of the facility with OEI/OEM partners seeking demonstration space in the Bay Area and will encourage collaborative projects across key market segments including machine tool, semiconductor, and automation equipment applications.
Doug Woods, president of AMT, says, “Silicon Valley, as a nexus of technological innovation, provides an unparalleled environment to foster integrative advancements. For AMT in particular, our commitment is to drive innovation, productivity, and growth in manufacturing. The proposed center offers a unique opportunity to showcase the capabilities of modern manufacturing to a diverse audience, from potential clients and partners to policymakers and the next generation of engineers and innovators. This aligns with AMT’s mission to promote manufacturing technology.”
David Doyle, HEIDENHAIN president and CEO, says, “As a foundation company, we promote the development of innovative applications within our core markets, and we apply our motion control technologies to emerging high-growth application segments. We represent 10 brands of products from within the HEIDENHAIN corporate group, and each brand offers unique strengths. Our broad technology and product portfolio enables us to provide best-fit solutions to our customers for their application-specific needs.
Ajit Manocha, president of SEMI, says, “HEIDENHAIN is a key supplier to front and back end-of-line semiconductor capital equipment companies, working to ensure that next-generation semiconductors technology nodes and new advanced packing strategies are possible. The global investment in semiconductor technology and production capacity will leverage HEIDENHAIN’s technologies throughout the industry. Their proposed manufacturing innovation hub CONNECT will create collaboration opportunities with SEMI and across the supply chain, and their commitment to education and training will provide partnership opportunities with the SEMI Foundation and support its goal to ensure the success of semiconductor workforce development initiatives.”
Jeff Burnstein, president of the Association of Advanced Automation, says, “We welcome the opportunity to participate in collaborative initiatives like this, which enable our members to advance automation applications across different industry sectors. Advancements in automation and robotics are essential to the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing. Ultimately, optimizing system performance and automation together improves the return on capital investment for manufacturing technology end-users.”
“Our CNC programming software and integrated digital manufacturing technology, sold in conjunction with our OEM partner systems to the machine tool industry, are critical for expanding 5-axis machining applications and supporting a growing user base at Silicon Valley companies, where precision and accuracy are in high demand.”
CONNECT manufacturing innovation hub, Fremont, California.