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Advanced manufacturing has ushered in new methods in the production of goods and services using

computer-controlled and micro-electronics-based equipment, including CAD design, robots and automated storage systems. Increased innovation and technological adoption now involves new manufacturing processes that encompass innovative technologies such as 3D printing, machine learning and cybersecurity.

Percentage cost advantage relative to the U.S.

  • Mexico 13.9%
  • Canada 9.7%
  • Netherlands 8.4%
  • Italy 7.1%
  • UK 7.0%
  • Australia 7.0%
  • France 6.5%
  • Germany 5.0%
  • Japan 5.0%

2 students and an instructor stand next to a vehicle looking at a clipboard one of the students is holding, with a black vehicle to their left that has a wind stream passing over the front of the vehicle. The ACE and Ontario Tech logos are on a white wall behind them.

Assets

  • A.C.E. at Ontario Tech University (one of the world's most sophisticated climatic wind tunnels that can test product life cycling and performance under the most intense and extreme weather conditions)
  • Durham College School of Skilled Trades, Apprenticeship and Renewable Technology
  • General Motors Canadian Engineering Centre
  • Integrated Manufacturing Centre at Durham College
  • OPG Engineering Building at Ontario Tech University

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Key companies

  • EHC Global
  • AGS Automotive Oshawa
  • Canfab Packaging
  • Cleeve Technology
  • Fresh Del Monte Produce
  • General Motors of Canada
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  •   - Durham Region's Advanced Manufacturing Labour Force: 18,893. Source: ESRI Data Modelling, 2020
  •   - 5% of total jobs in Oshawa represented by the Manufacturing Sector
  •   - General Motors Canada has repurposed the Oshawa Assembly Plant to make (at cost) one million masks per month for the     Canadian government amid a global shortage of medical supplies needed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
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