Ecosystem

CESMII is about transformation made possible by collaboration. At our very essence is bringing together individuals, organizations and technologies to create one greater good. With membership, comes additional opportunities for collaboration an access our network of valuable resources. 

SM Innovation Centers (SMICs)

SMICs are a network of industry-centric centers-of-excellence throughout the U.S. focused on leading that industry’s ecosystem in the field of SM.

Affinity Groups

Affinity Groups, hosted by CESMII, offer networking opportunities for manufacturers in vertical markets, or with common applications.

MEP Network

Manufacturing Extension Partnership is a public-private partnership with centers nationwide serving small and medium-sized manufacturers

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Press Release – RPI – Toward Zero and CESMII

Press Release – RPI – Toward Zero and CESMII

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is a CESMII Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center (SMIC), contributing to and benefitting from CESMII Smart Manufacturing research and developments. RPI is a significant facility in the area of machine tool operation and management, represented within our RPI MILL: Manufacturing Innovation Learning Laboratory in Troy, New York. We are excited to announce that contextualized machine tool data is seamlessly ported into the CESMII SM Innovation Platform from a HAAS CNC machine (RPI ST-10Y). This critical milestone of contextualization through an Information Model, Type Definition and Semantic Graph, developed at the machine level and published to the cloud-based CESMII Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform (SMIP) is made possible by a prototype Smart Manufacturing edge appliance (Apogean™), supporting CESMII’s GraphQL API, by Toward Zero Co.

Request for Proposals RFP3

Request for Proposals RFP3

This RFP allocates up to $4.8M for Workforce Development, Enabling Technology R&D, Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform (SMIP) capability development and Smart Manufacturing Innovation Projects.

CESMII Member ThinkIQ Optimizing Poultry Processing

CESMII Member ThinkIQ Optimizing Poultry Processing

ThinkIQ will utilize the CESMII Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform and create Profiles that optimize yield and material utilization on the food company’s poultry processing line. This will enable decisions based on real-time constraints in material flows, manufacturing operations, and energy consumption in a protein-based food processing environment.