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MEDC Senior Vice President Chimiko Updates Industry 4.0 Support Program

by | Mar 29, 2023

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MITechNews Editor and Publisher Mike Brennan interviews MEDC Senior Vice President of Small Business Solutions Natalie Chmiko about updates to Michigan's Industry 4.0 Support Program. The MEDC seeks to have 6,200 of Michigan's 12,000 manufacturers utilizing at least some Industry 4.0 technology within the next two years.

LANSING – Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution, takes manufacturing into the tech age by using such advanced products as 3D printing, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Self-Diagnostic machines, Digital twins and much more.

The Michigan Economic Development Corp. seeks to have 6,200 Michigan manufactures using some elements of I40 within the next two years. That’s about half of the 12,000 Michigan manufacturers. Natalie Chmiko, senior vp at the MEDC, heads up the state’s economic development agency’s I40 efforts.

She joins MITech TV to talk about where the program is, and where it is headed, and how MEDC will get about 2000 more manufacturers on board by end of 2025.

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