[Zathras]

Agreed. Much more engineering support near Madison.
Milwaukee, not so much.
It takes a very special skill for assembling SMT PCB.
Most people can’t do it with repeatable results.

Looks like they are going to do large display screens.
Makes since as then you don’t have to cargo container very fragile displays thru open ocean.

[UB355]

I don’t get your comment, Many Milwaukee Engineering programs

http://www.msoe.edu/

http://www.marquette.edu/engineering/

http://uwm.edu/engineering/

among others

[Dr. Sivana]

Agreed. Much more engineering support near Madison.

Madison is not that far from Milwaukee, and a lot of the most populous suburbs lie between the two. I know a contractor who lives in Rockford and will commute to either city as well as the Chicago suburbs.

Of course, Milwaukee has always been a serious mechanical engineering location. It's no coincidence that there is a major line of tools called "Milwaukee" (even if they aren't made there. My old high-end Jacobsen Lawn Mower was Wisconsin made with a Wisconsin built Kohler engine. There are still a good number of ethnic German descendants in the region who may have left the Milwaukee city limits, but remain in the region.

Historically, Germans have been drawn to invention, manufacturing and engineering. No, it's not the same as PCB manufacturing, but at least some of the skills should be transferable, especially as computer-based tools and robotics are employed in both.