Today Apple is celebrating the opening of its Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston, Texas. Here are the details.

From Apple Newsroom:

Apple today opened its new Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) in Houston. The center offers free training and educational sessions for small- and medium-sized businesses, giving them direct experience with state-of-the-art equipment, interactive labs, and tools they need to accelerate innovation. 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. […]

“In less than nine months, we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into this Houston facility. We stood up a factory, started production, and shipped the first advanced AI servers off the line. Today, we’re thrilled to open our new Advanced Manufacturing Center, a place where businesses, workers, and students can learn the same innovative processes that we use to make Apple’s most groundbreaking products. And we’re pleased to begin Mac mini production later this year,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We believe in American workers and American ingenuity, and we are moving at an incredible pace because we want to build more than great products. We want to build the future of American manufacturing.”

Tim Cook made a stop in Houston for the opening, per his social media. And the kickoff event will be attended by government figures like U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Houston Mayor John Whitmire, U.S. Representative Christian Menefee, Harris County Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis, and more.

The AMC is a 20,000-square-foot facility where Apple experts will seek to “share their knowledge directly with participating businesses and entrepreneurs to help accelerate smart manufacturing across America.”

The first cohort of business leaders is there today for the first ever training session. The topic of the day focuses on smart manufacturing techniques, including “machine-learning-driven quality control and advanced automation.”

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