About The Center for Digital Factory Innovations
The Center for Digital Factory Innovations (CDFI) is an industry-university partnership with a mission to develop and share best practices and strategies that enable the digital manufacturing future.
The digital future is one of interconnected, self-aware factories and processes that manufacture products through automation and the marriage of human-machine interactions.
Working together with industry to build this digital future, CDFI research is driving sustained manufacturing performance improvements to deliver economic, quality, and technical advantages to companies like yours.
Vision
We envision interconnected, self-aware factories and processes that manufacture products through automation and the marriage of intelligent human-machine interactions.
Mission
Develop digital technology innovations to improve factories for the betterment of consumers, companies, employees, and environment.
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What’s the problem?
Trees are more important today than ever before. More than 10,000 products are reportedly made from trees. Through chemistry, the humble woodpile is yielding chemicals, plastics and fabrics that were beyond comprehension when an axe first felled a Texas tree.