Faurecia joins Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute to help bring new technology prowess to american industry

DMDII is a public-private research and development organization of UI LABS. It is a world-class, first-of-its-kind manufacturing hub that will encourage factories across the nation to deploy digital manufacturing and design technologies for improved efficiency and cost-competitiveness.

Faurecia joins DMDII as an Industry Tier 2 member, alongside other world-leading manufacturers such as Boeing, Caterpillar, Procter & Gamble, Deere and Company, Illinois Tool Works and Microsoft. Together, DMDII partners will create software and other digital tools to be used in their internal operations and research activities worldwide. Faurecia researchers will serve on the organization’s Technical Advisory Committee, which will identify gaps in current knowledge of digital manufacturing and design, look at business problems that need digital solutions, and develop a technology roadmap.

“Our involvement in the DMDII is a natural extension of our own digital manufacturing initiative Faurecia 4.0. Through this program Faurecia joins with industry partners, academia and government to help manufacturers capture data at every stage of the production process to better control both processes and costs. We look forward to being an integral part of this effort, which will help accelerate the transformation of manufacturing in America,” said Faurecia North America President Mark Stidham.

Faurecia’s own internal Digital Manufacturing initiative is already producing exciting results for the company across the whole value chain through the use of  predictive maintenance, manufacturing intelligence, automation and collaborative robots, digital management control, and internet of things. The DMDII headquarters offers a fully equipped factory demonstration floor, as well as a collaboration space which will support the development of new manufacturing approaches to optimize processes and improve flexibility.

UI LABS is a Chicago-based research and commercialization collaborative, bringing universities and industries together to define problems, design partnerships and deliver scalable solutions to tomorrow’s most important challenges.