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The Arizona-Sonora Manufacturing Initiative  – ASMI - is dedicated to helping small and mid-size Arizona manufacturers compete as effectively as possible — with anyone, anywhere – in the global economy.  You need to go beyond “lean” and “six sigma” formulas to find the unique key to your competitiveness.  We have created our Learning Solutions capability to provide focused information that addresses competitive issues you are facing. 

It’s to the point, it’s affordable, and it’s brought to you by colleagues in Arizona who are deeply committed to your success.  We hope you will check it out and tell us what you think –  ASMI Learning Solutions.

ASMI Mission

The mission of the Arizona – Sonora Manufacturing Initiative is to increase the competitiveness of our region for manufacturing and the associated innovation, R&D and other activities.  These activities add significant value to our regional economy, and are essential to its future growth.

We will accomplish this through:

• helping companies build their manufacturing competencies to enhance their global competitiveness.
• working with business, governmental, educational and NGO organizations to increase private-public collaboration to build regional manufacturing capabilities.
• proactively exploring opportunities for bi-national collaboration in manufacturing that can foster improved understanding and mutually beneficial economic growth between Arizona and Sonora.

Knowledge-based manufacturing is of particular interest, since it has the strongest potential to be a long-term, economically sustainable contributor to the Arizona-Sonora regional economy.

The Arizona – Sonora Bi-national Region

The Arizona-Sonora region offers companies in a range of industries — such as aerospace, defense, automotive, embedded electronics and optics — a location that has cost-competitive capabilities to support knowledge-based manufacturing, as well as the innovation and product R&D that fuel it. With an attractive cost-of-living, competitive education capabilities and high quality-of-life, the region is ideal for many engineering, distribution and headquarters activities servicing North and Latin American markets.

The Arizona-Sonora Region offers much more than manufacturing opportunity.
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