Conestoga College has received a $2M donation from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc to fund the creation of the Toyota Smart Factory Learning Hub at the college’s Cambridge – Fountain Street campus. This new smart factory will be equipped with Industry 4.0 technologies and will offer hands-on experiences to students in engineering and technology programs. CTV News reports that the funding will be used to create three additional manufacturing lines so that an entire class can work on the lines at the same time. “Toyota hires a fair number of co-op students from our programs,” said Conestoga Professor Christine Burns, adding that the tools students use in the lab will be reflective of what “they would actually see in the industry.”
