Today Apple is celebrating the opening of its Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston, Texas. The center offers free training and educational sessions for small- and medium-sized businesses, giving them direct experience with state-of-the-art equipment, interactive labs, and tools they need to accelerate innovation. The AMC is located within the same Houston facility that builds and ships Apple’s advanced AI servers and will begin manufacturing Mac mini this year.

“In less than nine months, we have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into this Houston facility. We stood up a factory, started production, and shipped the first advanced AI servers off the line. Today, we’re thrilled to open our new Advanced Manufacturing Center, a place where businesses, workers, and students can learn the same innovative processes that we use to make Apple’s most groundbreaking products,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO.

Tim Cook made a stop in Houston for the opening, and the kickoff event was attended by government figures like U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, and Houston Mayor John Whitmire. The AMC is a 20,000-square-foot facility where Apple experts will share knowledge to help accelerate smart manufacturing. The first cohort is there today for a training session focused on machine-learning-driven quality control and advanced automation.