ABOUT US
We are CESMII (sez-ME), the Smart Manufacturing Institute. Funded by the U.S. government, we are a non-profit organization established as your primary advocate for SM and your primary source for industry networking, education and workforce development, funded research projects and a Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform to enable your digital transformation.
CESMII brings together technology, solutions, skills, practice, and knowledge to break down barriers to progress, making the power of information and innovation accessible to all who touch manufacturing. Regardless of your organization’s size, industry sector or experience, we help ensure that people and systems create value in and across manufacturing operations on a national scale.
Manufacturing USA
CESMII is one of 16 Manufacturing USA institutes across the U.S., a network established in 2014 to secure U.S. global leadership in advanced manufacturing by connecting people, ideas, and technology.
Meet the Team
Our talented team provides more than 100 years of cumulative industry knowledge, working across the U.S. with a shared mission to accelerate SM with the team working remotely across the nation to accelerate SM at all levels.
Careers
Interested in joining a self-motivated, collaborative team with the option to live where you like and work remotely? We are constantly growing and evolving. See if we have a fit for you!
What is Smart Manufacturing?
Smart Manufacturing (SM) is the information-based, event-driven and collaborative orchestration of business, physical and digital processes that efficiently drive plants, factories and the entire value chain.
The CESMII Story
Learn about our history and current initiatives through the lens of our CTO, Haresh Malkani, and how they align with U.S. Department of Energy objectives for industry-wide adoption of Smart Manufacturing. CESMII’s long history began with the founding of Smart Manufacturing by Jim Davis at UCLA, chronicled in The 15th Anniversary of Smart Manufacturing.
Our CESMII story, as a Manufacturing USA Institute, is one that capitalizes on this history and investments made to date, but it also focuses on developing and scaling new industry-wide capabilities for a more productive, competitive, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable manufacturing environment in the U.S. and globally.
OUR ROADMAP
Our Institute Roadmap ensures that the work carried out through the institute directly relates to our published goals, objectives and strategic levers. Our objectives define what we — as an ecosystem driven through public/private partnership — want to accomplish and. It directs our roadmap and guides how we accomplish our objectives through our established and published focus areas and deliverables.
SM Ecosystem Integration
CESMII represents a “network-of-networks,” engaging industry partners and academia.
SM Education
CESMII works to educate a wide constituency across our ecosystem
SM Enabling Technologies
Innovative solutions that form the building blocks for a SM solution.
SM Innovation Platform
SMIP represents and communicates our key Smart Manufacturing specifications.
ORIGINAL 2017-2019 ROADMAP
Industries We Serve
OUR LOCATION
Our “official” headquarters is based in Los Angeles, CA, as our program is funded through a partnership with UCLA. However, the CESMII HQ team operates remotely across the country, with team members spanning from Southern California to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Our extended network reach is even wider. CESMII has an existing national network of Smart Manufacturing Innovation Centers (“SMICs”), that are a collection highly visible, credible, high value, regional extensions of CESMII. Each SMIC is an independent organization with strong industry engagement and core competencies related to a key industry and/or a technology horizontal.
Department of Energy
Founded in 2016, CESMII accelerates smart manufacturing adoption through the integration of advanced sensors, data analytics, platforms, and controls. It is the third institute funded by DOE’s Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office.