Apple Opens Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston

<p><strong>CUPERTINO <&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; Apple has opened a new Advanced Manufacturing Center &lpar;AMC&rpar; in Houston&period; The center offers free training and educational sessions for small- and medium-sized businesses&comma; giving them direct experience with state-of-the-art equipment&comma; interactive labs&comma; and tools they need to accelerate innovation&period; The AMC is located within the same Houston facility that builds and ships Apple’s advanced AI servers and will begin manufacturing Mac mini this year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;<strong>Photo abov<&sol;strong>e&colon; Apple’s new Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston gives small- and medium-sized businesses direct experience with state-of-the-art equipment&comma; interactive labs&comma; and tools they need to accelerate innovation&period; Courtesy of Apple&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At the center — the company’s second U&period;S&period; manufacturing learning site — experts teach participants many of the same innovative processes used to make Apple products&period; Inside the 20&comma;000-square-foot center&comma; Apple experts will share their knowledge directly with participating businesses and entrepreneurs to help accelerate smart manufacturing across America&period; Curriculum topics will range from classroom sessions on advanced manufacturing principles for final assembly and design considerations for printed circuit board assembly&comma; to interactive workshops that make use of the site’s representative production facility and equipment&period; As programming expands&comma; the AMC will offer the same hands-on training to local college students&comma; equipping the next generation of American manufacturing workers with critical skills&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In less than nine months&comma; we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into this Houston facility&period; We stood up a factory&comma; started production&comma; and shipped the first advanced AI servers off the line&period; Today&comma; we’re thrilled to open our new Advanced Manufacturing Center&comma; a place where businesses&comma; workers&comma; and students can learn the same innovative processes that we use to make Apple’s most groundbreaking products&period; And we’re pleased to begin Mac mini production later this year&comma;” said Tim Cook&comma; Apple’s CEO&period; Cook is set to step down as CEO of the company at the end of the month&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We believe in American workers and American ingenuity&comma; and we are moving at an incredible pace because we want to build more than great products&period; We want to build the future of American manufacturing&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This opening is an important step in Apple delivering on its promise to bring its manufacturing back to America&comma;” said U&period;S&period; Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With this Advanced Manufacturing Center&comma; Apple will equip American workers with the skills they need to lead the next generation of technology&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Apple announced earlier this year that it will bring Mac mini production to Houston&period; The company shipped its first advanced AI servers less than a year after identifying a factory site&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;