STATESVILLE, N.C. — NASCAR driver Brad Keselowski used his own money to open a $10 million advanced manufacturing facility in Statesville that’s designed to be the “factory of the future” to combine emerging production systems with current methods.
Keselowski dedicated Keselowski Advanced Manufacturing adjacent to the Statesville Regional Airport on Thursday with about 150 suppliers, customers, community and NASCAR people in attendance.
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KAM is “a model of what the fourth industrial revolution should be like,” Keselowski says. There, the staff of 100 will eventually make metal parts using both 3-D printing techniques and traditional computerized numerical control (CNC) machines to quickly and efficiently serve customers in defense, health care, automotive and, oh, yes, racing.
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