Innovation Lab for Operations is a department whose mission is to develop and manage infrastructures, demonstrators and other test tools with a focus on industrial digitalization which allow it to:

Support OCP and other Moroccan and African industrial players in increasing their competitiveness through industrial digitalization and the improvement their productions tools.
Support innovation within the UM6P ecosystem through the development of an Open Innovation Platform (design, prototyping) open to the community through its FABLAB which boasts a large number manufacturing equipment.

The ILO’s two main focus areas of development are :

The study of advanced engineering projects (and research) and a test platform for the following 8 domains:

Advanced process controls
Mining, chemical and port facility steering
Advanced maintenance
Smart sensors and advanced spectrometry
Industrial beneficiation
Industrial simulators
Systems engineering and standardization for the mining industry
Development of new chemical processes for the production of phosphoric acids
Provision of a FABLAB open to the entire UM6P ecosystem for prototyping of different natures