Master’s, PhD, and undergraduate internship
The originality of the proposed training is based on the exceptional environment offered to students. The universities will have operational factory-laboratories on their premises. Funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), these factories enable the actual manufacturing of goods using cutting-edge technologies compared to the industry. They will be operated by student teams.
In these factory-laboratories, research teams will develop and experiment with systems for design, configuration, manufacturing, and production control. Each student research project will be associated with a partner company and will aim to address a complex digital transformation issue, previously identified with the company. The solution will first be developed and tested within the training factory, then deployed with the student at the partner company. The skills and leadership developed by these students will make them the change agents needed by the manufacturing industry to drive its digital transition. Additionally, management science students will intervene transversally within these factories and with industrial partners to establish best practices and success factors for digital transformation.
