Smart Manufacturing Mindset™:

Bridging OT & IT in College Industrial Labs

Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 are driving the digital transformation of industrial processes. This digital transformation enables enhanced productivity, real-time data and analytics, flexibility and customization, optimized supply networks, energy efficiency and sustainability, and improved workforce development. Barriers to the realization of these goals include the legacy of lacking integration of automation operational technology (OT) and enterprise information technology (IT).

Academic organizations have a key role to play in realizing the SM vision. Not only in the research and development of technology but also in the education of the workforce in digital technologies and techniques for manufacturing. However, academic organizations are experiencing similar challenges for integrating OT and IT networks and systems that have traditionally been managed and operated separately.

In this webcast, we explore how academic organizations have tackled these challenges to teach SM skills and what similar organizations and manufacturers can learn from their experience.

Calling all Manufacturers: Register Today!

Next Course Starts September 16th! 

This four-week, non-credit course, is designed for manufacturing leaders that want to develop or enhance the strategic plan for implementing smart manufacturing in their own organization. You will work with a world-class, experienced practitioner-mentor and the CESMII Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Framework to assess your organization’s current state, develop an aligned future state vision, and create a draft roadmap that leverages technology where it is needed to achieve your organization’s business objectives.

You’ll exit the course with a comprehensive understanding and experience to complete the roadmap development process in your work setting. This is a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) ProCourse and a CESMII-Endorsed Smart Manufacturing course.

If you are a consultant, coach or advisor to manufacturing companies, you should take the next  Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Roadmap Professional Certification Course starting October 21. This course is designed for the internal manufacturing team working through the process with an external coach.

Notice of Intent to Issue Smart Manufacturing Request for Proposals

CESMII plans to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) focused
on Smart Manufacturing technology applications in key industry verticals to create momentum for scaling and deploying
Smart Manufacturing across the nation.

The key topics include:

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Smart Manufacturing for clean energy technologies and

manufacturing industries.

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Smart Manufacturing for enhancing resiliency, operational efficiency,
and energy productivity in integrated supply chains.

$63 Million Announced to Expand Battery Recycling & Boost Smart Manufacturing

Batteries are and will continue to be a critical piece of the transition to a #cleanenergy economy.

DOE Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains Office (MESC) is increasing collaboration between states and small and medium-sized #manufacturers across the country with $63 million in funding made available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. We’re working in partnership with states and local governments to increase #batteryrecycling and to make smart manufacturing technologies, like advanced sensors and modeling, more accessible to small- and medium-manufacturers. This funding opportunity–which closes in less than two weeks–will boost domestic #manufacturing, increase participation in battery recycling, and bolster critical material #supplychains.  CESMII will be supporting the smart manufacturing awardees under this program.

Only a few weeks left to apply for this great funding opportunity for states to expand #smartmanufacturing support to their small and medium-sized #manufacturers, and state/local governments to create/expand #batteryrecycling programs!

We are so thrilled that CESMII on board as a key Program partner to maximize DOE’s and the selected state-programs’ efforts to increase access to smart manufacturing technologies for #SMMs across the country!

Submission Deadline: September 16, 2024 (5 pm ET)

Hybrid Model Federated Learning

Request for Information

Our friends over at NIIMBL are looking for insights on universal connectivity systems and hybrid model federated learning systems to support #biopharmaceutical #manufacturing processes. 

This RFI seeks innovative approaches that combine Federated Learning with hybrid models (combining Physics-Based and AI/ML data-driven methodologies) specifically tailored for biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes. This request aims to gather insights and concepts for achieving integration and operationalization of these models in a practical, industry-relevant context.

Submission Deadline: September 23, 2024 (5 pm ET)

⬆$15k/yr 

Demonstrated 10% scrap reduction at industrial partner site; translates to $15k/yr savings.  

⬆$17k/yr

Demonstrated 10% reduction in unplanned maintenance at industrial partner site; translates to $17k/yr savings. 

⬆$130k/yr

Demonstrated 10% increase in throughput per shift at partner site. This translates to a $130k revenue increase. 

Accenture

First Resonance

HighByte

HiveMQ

Lallemand (American Yeast Sales Corp.)

Ohio MEP: MAGNET

Maryland MEP

Mike Wilcox

Missouri Enterprise

Nestlé Purina PetCare

Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics

Congratulations!