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Smart Factories, College Edition
Calling it a “smart factory” in the press release seems a little overblown considering we’re talking about some lab and studio spaces in a college building, but Purdue Polytechnic Institute announced a five-year partnership with the professional services company Accenture to create a learning center for smart technologies.
The idea of creating a “smart manufacturing workforce” is kind of interesting, considering one of the questions I always come across is whether operators take to or are turned off by smart technologies on the floor. The answer is invariably something along the lines of “A little at first but…
