CESMII: Smart Manufacturing News and Major Events

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Smart Manufacturing: The Path to the Future
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Smart Manufacturing: The Path to the Future

The United States is expanding its manufacturing capabilities by investing in a network of institutes, each specializing in a specific area, for example technology or workforce development.
​In the article "Smart Manufacturing: The Path to the Future," John Dyck, CEO of CESMII, and Olivia Morales, Senior Solution Architect at CESMII, explore the transformative potential of smart manufacturing in the industrial sector. They discuss how integrating advanced technologies can enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and drive innovation. The authors...
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SXSW: Smart, Sustainable, Streamlined: Factories of the Future
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SXSW: Smart, Sustainable, Streamlined: Factories of the Future

This panel explores the current state of U.S. manufacturing, what technologies the next few decades will bring, and what steps companies, big and small, can take to future-proof their business. Experts from the Manufacturing USA network, with diverse manufacturing backgrounds, will discuss innovations in areas like predictive analytics, automation, sustainability,...
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Register your interest in Resilient and Flexible Supply Chain Workshop
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Register your interest in Resilient and Flexible Supply Chain Workshop

Biopharmaceutical supply chains are complex and globally dispersed, making them vulnerable to disruptions. To enhance resilience, NIIMBL and CESMII, with support from the Gates Foundation, are exploring a Supply Chain Data Exchange framework using CESMII’s Smart Manufacturing model. Join our virtual workshop on April 11, 2025 (11:00 AM – 1:30...
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Reflections on ProveIt 2025
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Reflections on ProveIt 2025

Jonathan Wise Chief Technology ArchitectCESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute https://github.com/jwise-mfg"Making manufacturing smart requires a multi-discipline effort to extract good information from challenging data sources, so I can endorse all paths that lead us there” — Jonathan Wise This month, I was challenged to attend the ProveIt! Conference. To be...
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CESMII Welcomes Verizon as Newest Member to Advance Smart Manufacturing
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CESMII Welcomes Verizon as Newest Member to Advance Smart Manufacturing

CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute proudly welcomes Verizon as its newest member, marking a significant step forward in driving smart manufacturing adoption. This collaboration highlights a shared vision to leverage digital transformation and cutting-edge technologies to advance the future of manufacturing. Verizon’s expertise in providing secure, real-time connectivity and...
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Joint forces for Digital Product Passport (DPP) 
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Joint forces for Digital Product Passport (DPP) 

Major standardization associations and initiatives partner to create the best of breed system architecture to support the upcoming Digital Product Passport (DPP) by combining the best aspects of the Asset Administration Shell and OPC UA.
A coalition of industry leaders, including Clean Energy and Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), the Labs Network Industrie 4.0 (LNI 4.0), the Digital Twin Consortium, the ECLASS e.V., the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA), the OPC Foundation (OPCF), the VDMA and the ZVEI, have announced a unified system architecture to...
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CESMII and NIST MEP Forging a Strategic Partnership to Advance U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness
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CESMII and NIST MEP Forging a Strategic Partnership to Advance U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness

CESMII and NIST MEP Announce Collaboration Framework to Accelerate Smart Manufacturing for Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers
CESMII and NIST MEP have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate smart manufacturing adoption among small and medium-sized U.S. manufacturers (SMMs). Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the collaboration will harness CESMII’s expertise in smart manufacturing and NIST MEP's national network to deliver resources, technology, and education that enhance productivity...
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International Manufacturing-X Council Amplifies Global Initiatives
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International Manufacturing-X Council Amplifies Global Initiatives

Industry leaders unite to showcase the global vision and use cases for advancing Smart Manufacturing through new website www.imxc.org
The International Manufacturing-X Council (IM-X Council) has launched its new website, marking a significant milestone in the global push toward Smart Manufacturing. As a collaborative network of industry, government, and academia, the IM-X Council aims to build a decentralized data ecosystem that enhances data sovereignty, transparency, and resilience across supply...
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Quickbase Joins CESMII to Drive Innovation in Smart Manufacturing
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Quickbase Joins CESMII to Drive Innovation in Smart Manufacturing

Quickbase has partnered with CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute, reinforcing its commitment to advancing smart manufacturing. Quickbase’s AI-powered platform enables manufacturers to quickly build custom apps for operational tasks like production control, asset management, and quality assurance, all in one place. This partnership aligns with CESMII’s mission to transform...
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Role of Leadership | Vision, Execution and Sustaining Success
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Role of Leadership | Vision, Execution and Sustaining Success

Hear from local manufacturers who are taking ownership for building their digital capabilities and developing their own strategic Smart Manufacturing roadmap - with a little help from their friends. Join leaders from two northeast Ohio manufacturers and the NxGen Group as they share insights on their journeys, working within the...
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AYNA Insights | Titanium Economy Podcast Series
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AYNA Insights | Titanium Economy Podcast Series

CESMII’s Role in Transforming Manufacturing
How can smart manufacturing revolutionize the U.S. industrial landscape, especially for smaller manufacturers struggling with a digital divide? In this Titanium Economy episode, John Dyck, CEO of the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), shares his deep expertise in manufacturing, automation, and software. He's dedicated to reducing technical debt...
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Bridging OT & IT in College Industrial Labs
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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...
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Notice of Intent to Issue Smart Manufacturing Request for Proposals
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Notice of Intent to Issue Smart Manufacturing Request for Proposals

In the upcoming RFP, CESMII will pursue a selected number of projects that demonstrate scaling and deployment of SM solutions across companies in individual industries and cross-industry supply chains. Scaling and deploying will demonstrate industry integration, implementation, and reusability of existing SM solutions, practices, and infrastructure. The solutions will focus...
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: SM Executive Council PoV on Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: SM Executive Council PoV on Revitalizing U.S. Manufacturing

Discover how the Smart Manufacturing Executive Council (SMEC) is setting a strategic course to rejuvenate U.S. manufacturing and regain global competitiveness. This council, comprised entirely of manufacturers, recently documented their point-of-view on the promises Smart Manufacturing holds for each manufacturer and their collective impact on the U.S. economy.
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Manufacturing Data Architecture Workshop: From Asset to Edge and Edge to Cloud

Featuring Owens Corning
We partnered with Owens Corning for a Manufacturing Data Architecture Workshop focusing on the data flow from assets to edge and cloud. Since joining CESMII in 2023, Owens Corning, with Brian Perlstein on our Smart Manufacturing Executive Council, has enhanced our network. Our mission is to accelerate smart manufacturing adoption,...
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Acceleration Framework for Strategic Success
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Acceleration Framework for Strategic Success

Join the team from Andersen Corporation as they share insights on building a strategic Smart Manufacturing Roadmap with the CESMII Acceleration Framework. Discover how Andersen took ownership of the entire process from conception to execution and results-with tools provided by CESMII and invaluable guidance from the NxGen Group. We'll explore...
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The Future of the American Economy Depends on our Ability to Evolve U.S. Manufacturing
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The Future of the American Economy Depends on our Ability to Evolve U.S. Manufacturing

The Smart Manufacturing Executive Council has been established to offer strategic guidance to revitalize competitiveness and transform the future of U.S. manufacturing.
Discover how CESMII's Smart Manufacturing Architecture (SM Architecture) revolutionizes industrial data integration, bridging the gap from edge to application. Through a converged architecture leveraging PLCNext's control and information capabilities, we showcase automated discovery of profiled equipment instances directly from the PLC. Witness self-configuring applications seamlessly adapting to plant floor changes,...
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Propelling Efficiency with Edge to Application Propagation through CESMII’s SM Architecture
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Propelling Efficiency with Edge to Application Propagation through CESMII’s SM Architecture

CESMII, Phoenix Contact, and SORBA.AI: Propelling Efficiency with Edge to Application Propagation through CESMII's SM Architecture
Discover how CESMII's Smart Manufacturing Architecture (SM Architecture) revolutionizes industrial data integration, bridging the gap from edge to application. Through a converged architecture leveraging PLCNext's control and information capabilities, we showcase automated discovery of profiled equipment instances directly from the PLC. Witness self-configuring applications seamlessly adapting to plant floor changes,...
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Industrial AI, Data-sharing, & Value Creation
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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Industrial AI, Data-sharing, & Value Creation

Twelve semiconductor fab operators are forging a new business model for AI-enabled smart manufacturing based on the sharing and aggregation of data across companies for mutual benefit. Join our next session of the CESMII Smart Manufacturing Mindset™ series to hear from one of those operator-company leaders and a coordinating group...
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A Standards-Based Battery Passport Proof of Concept – in Partnership with CESMII, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB, OPC Foundation and VDMA
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A Standards-Based Battery Passport Proof of Concept – in Partnership with CESMII, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB, OPC Foundation and VDMA

OPC Foundation, CESMII, and VDMA advances existing demonstrator for Product Carbon Footprint and Digital Product Passport with the Battery Passport, modelled with OPC UA
The OPC Foundation, a global consortium tasked with the development and maintenance of industrial interoperability standards, also develops solutions to fulfill governmental regulations for interoperable systems. This work is carried out in close collaboration with several cooperation partners like CESMII, the VDMA, and the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell...
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