OP-10 · Academy
Train
Practical specialisation first: drawings, tolerances, CNC, metrology, quality and workshop discipline.
Advanced Manufacturing & Industrial Skills
Train in Madagascar. Innovate in Madagascar. Manufacture in Madagascar. 🇲🇬
Giving Malagasy talent the skills, resources and opportunities to build their industrial future in Madagascar.
Hands-on skills first. Equipping a pilot workshop. Progressive manufacturing next.
Overview
Precision manufacturing that starts with people.
AMIS Madagascar develops lasting local skills in precision manufacturing. The project begins with training, then equips a teaching workshop, and later grows into a production unit when demand and orders justify it.
9–12 monthsIntensive specialisation
Limited intakeCarefully selected candidates
6,400 m²Site dedicated to the project in Antananarivo
~30 minFrom Ivato Airport
Andry RABEZANAHARY · AMIS Madagascar Project Lead
The project is initiated and led by Andry RABEZANAHARY, driven by the conviction that Madagascar’s industrial development must start with human talent and local technical excellence. The roadmap is pragmatic and phased: launch begins with the practical training of an initial core team in-house, followed by setting up a pilot workshop in the existing building (~160 m² on the dedicated ~6,400 m² site), and then moving towards progressive manufacturing as market requirements mature.
OP-20 · Pilot workshop
Innovate
Pilot workshop, first machines, prototypes, inspection and manufacturing methods.
OP-30 · Production
Manufacture
Small batches, Swiss turning, automation, then subcontracting and progressive export.
The Academy
A complementary, workshop-led specialisation.
The Academy is not a university intended to replace existing Malagasy institutions. It is an intensive 9-to-12-month specialisation for graduates who already have a foundation and want to enter industrial practice.
Each intake will intentionally remain limited, with candidates carefully selected for their talent, potential, motivation, and technical and practical abilities.
Train first. Install machines next. Produce only when there is a real need.
What the project builds
- Lasting local skills that remain useful in Madagascar
- A training workshop that can later manufacture, step by step
- A culture of precision, measurement and quality
- Industrial, educational and financial partnerships
- A path toward precision parts, without claiming a factory already exists
Skills taught
From the drawing to the inspected part, then to a connected shop floor.
The syllabus links drawing reading, machining, Swiss turning, metrology, CAD/CAM, automation and Industry 4.0. Artificial intelligence is treated as a tool applied to manufacturing, not as a separate subject.
Machining and Swiss turning
TurningMillingCNC programming
Precision machiningSwiss-type turning
Cutting toolsMaterials
Metrology and quality
Engineering drawingsGD&T / tolerances
MetrologyQuality control
SPCTraceability
CAD / CAM and methods
CAD / CAMProcess planning
Equipment maintenance
Industry 4.0
AutomationRobotics
Connected machinesIndustry 4.0
AI applied to manufacturing
Planned infrastructure
A real site in Antananarivo, developed in stages.
The project relies on real land and building assets: a dedicated site of approximately 6,400 m² and an existing building of approximately 160 m² in Antananarivo, roughly 30 minutes from Ivato International Airport. The site will sit near the future Tamatave–Antananarivo road corridor.
The existing building of approximately 160 m² will host the first hands-on training activities. A workshop of approximately 200 m² is planned as the project develops.
Identified resources
- Dedicated site of approximately 6,400 m²
- Existing building of approximately 160 m²
- Location: Antananarivo
- Ivato Airport about 30 minutes away
- Future proximity to the Tamatave–Antananarivo axis
- Planned workshop of approximately 200 m²
Workshop and production
Capacity grows only when it will be used.
AMIS Madagascar is not presented as a large factory already built. Each machine is added when there is enough training demand, need or order volume to keep it running.
A new machine will be added only when there is enough demand or enough orders to keep it running.
- Teaching equipment, IT and metrology
- First CNC machine
- Prototypes and maintenance parts
- Small batches
- CNC lathe and machining centre
- Swiss turning
- Automation and advanced inspection
- Industrial subcontracting and export
Environment and energy
Clean production, measured consumption.
The workshop is designed to run first during solar production hours, with a scalable energy architecture and responsible treatment of fluids and chips.
Intended principles
- Scalable solar power and LFP batteries
- Industrial three-phase supply
- Backup generator
- Recovery and treatment of oils and cutting fluids
- No direct discharge onto the land
- Chip sorting by material
- Recycling of aluminium, steel, stainless steel and brass
International partnerships
Three geographies, one skills chain.
Each partner contributes what it does best. Madagascar remains the place of training, operations and production.
Madagascar
- Talent and training
- Workshop operations
- Local know-how
- Production
France — Cluses and the Arve Valley
- Swiss-turning expertise
- Industrial methods
- Metrology and quality
- Train-the-trainer
- Industrial network
International cooperation
AMIS aims to develop international cooperation in technical training, metrology and precision manufacturing.
- Spain: a potential introduction discussed at Micronora remains to be explored further.
- Switzerland: opportunities for cooperation with precision industry organisations are to be explored.
- Other countries: the project welcomes exchanges with training institutions and industrial partners.
Roadmap
A cautious timetable, revised as partners and the market evolve.
Prepare
- Market study
- Partner search
- Meetings with manufacturers
- Identification of future trainers
- Technical and financial studies
Set up
- Site preparation
- Fit-out of the existing building
- Training of the first trainers
- First equipment
- Pilot workshop if the project is confirmed
Train and manufacture
- First intake and intensive training
- Hands-on workshop practice
- First CNC, prototypes and first services
- Gradual addition of machines as demand appears
Call for collaborations
Build this industrial pathway with us.
AMIS Madagascar is actively seeking practical allies to build the training curriculum, pilot workshop and technical resources for the project.
Our collaboration priorities for the launch:
1. Training future instructors
2. Metrology & educational equipment
3. CAD/CAM software & CNC simulation
4. Technical machining expertise
5. Startup funding
AMIS Madagascar official address:
News & project progress
AMIS Madagascar project milestones, discussions and upcoming actions.
Project progress
AMIS at Micronora: discussions and next steps
Discussions at the exhibition helped clarify training, metrology and equipment needs for the planned launch of AMIS Madagascar.
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