AMPD Ventures Inc. in partnership with Avcorp Industries Inc., Convergent Manufacturing Technologies, and LlamaZOO Interactive Inc. announced that the Digital Technology Supercluster's Learning Factory Digital Twin (LFDT) project has been extended and the scope expanded. The LFDT project was first announced in March 2019 and aims to apply digital twinning to the manufacturing process of aerospace components, creating "virtual reality versions" or digital twins of manufactured parts, processes and facilities. Before now, creating and finalizing designs for manufacturing facilities has been a costly process.

The Learning Factory integrates the latest in virtual technologies and leverages AMPD's High Performance Computing platform, supplemented by LlamaZOO's Clarity software, allowing for remote facility and equipment monitoring, layout planning, inspection, and training. This enables users to virtually access and work within full-scale industrial production to create digitally driven, industrial tools.