HEIDENHAIN Announces “CONNECT” Manufacturing Innovation Hub in Silicon Valley

Schaumburg, IL (March 2024) HEIDENHAIN Firm, a market leader in movement control innovation, announces the procurement of a brand-new Silicon Valley head office situated in Fremont, The Golden State. The 12,000-square-foot Manufacturing Innovation Hub will certainly house workplace for HEIDENHAIN company’s local sales and sustain team along with a 6,000-square-foot devices demo laboratory.

HEIDENHAIN company will certainly advertise making use of the center with OEI/OEM companions looking for demo area in the Bay Location and will certainly motivate joint tasks throughout crucial market sections consisting of device device, semiconductor, and automation devices applications.

David Doyle, Head Of State and Chief Executive Officer of HEIDENHAIN FIRM, stated; “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 ten 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.”

“We have systematically restructured our N.A. operations to redistribute our sales and support staff to improve proximity to our customer base.  This is the third expansion step in Silicon Valley over five years and the new facility will enable hands-on demonstration and training capabilities, similar to those at our HEIDENHAIN Technical Academies (HTA) located in Traunreut, Germany and Schaumburg, IL.”

Doyle included; “We work closely with industry associations like SEMI, AMT, and A3, and welcome their participation in this initiative, including invitations to their member companies. Ultimately, in collaboration with industry partners, we seek an opportunity to expand our involvement in workforce development across the various industries which we serve.”

“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.”

“Our CNC programming software and integrated digital manufacturing technology, sold in conjunction with our OEM partner systems to the machine tool industry, is 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.”

Doug Woods, Head Of State of AMT mentioned: “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.” www.amtonline.org

Ajit Manocha, Head of state of SEMI commented; “HEIDENHAIN is a key supplier to front and back end of line semiconductor capital equipment companies, working to ensure 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 certainly develop partnership chances with SEMI and throughout the supply chain, and their dedication to education and learning and training will certainly offer collaboration chances with the SEMI Structure and sustain its objective to make sure the success of semiconductor labor force advancement efforts.”

Jeff Burnstein, Head Of State, the Organization of Advanced Automation (A3) mentioned; “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.” www.automate.org

In 1965, the North American subsidiary of HEIDENHAIN opened up in Niles, IL. Today, HEIDENHAIN company stands for every one of HEIDENHAIN’s core brand names, supplying important solution and workable expertise for every to the North American market base in Schaumburg, IL. At this place we provide a huge stock of substitute components and all sorts of technological training, consisting of the HEIDENHAIN Technical Academy (HTA). It is additionally home to ACU-RITE manufacturing and the ACU-RITE Modern Technology Education And Learning Facility (ATEC).

HEIDENHAIN company will certainly open up the brand-new Fremont center in March 2024 and will certainly start the setup of devices with its OEI/OEM companions. A ribbon-cutting occasion will certainly be held this springtime, with a Grand Opening event to comply with later on in 2024.