Faced with intensifying pressure from President Donald Trump to bring more jobs to the U.S., Apple is opening a manufacturing program in downtown Detroit.
The Apple Manufacturing Academy, which is being administered by Michigan State University, will offer workshops on manufacturing and artificial intelligence to small and medium-sized businesses when it opens in August, Apple
said on Tuesday. The company said that it would “train the next generation of U.S. manufacturers” and that Apple engineers would participate in the workshops.
Apple is one of the most admired hardware companies in the world, manufacturing tens of millions of complicated devices each year across a global supply chain.
“With this new programming, we’re thrilled to help even more businesses implement smart manufacturing so they can unlock amazing opportunities for their companies and our country,” Sabih Khan, Apple’s newly named chief operating officer, said in the statement.
