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Sustainability, Sustainable Manufacturing

In this episode, Jeff Winter sits down with three industry leaders, John Dyck, Jonathan Wise, and Walker Reynolds, to explore the convergence of Unified Namespace (UNS) and CESMII’s i3X. Together, they address the shared industry challenge that brought these frameworks together, why they complement rather than compete with one another, and what...

Artificial Intelligence, Podcast, Smart Manufacturing

Today, vendors promise transformation and headlines declare a revolution, while in most plants the story looks different. If your organization is feeling pressure to move on AI but is not sure whether the foundation is actually ready, this episode gives you a grounded, practitioner-driven answer to where to start. Today’s panelists bring insight...

Podcast, Smart Manufacturing

Today, vendors promise transformation and headlines declare a revolution, while in most plants the story looks different. If your organization is feeling pressure to move on AI but is not sure whether the foundation is actually ready, this episode gives you a grounded, practitioner-driven answer to where to start. Today’s panelists bring insight...

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Automation, Sustainability, Sustainable Manufacturing
CESMII and Manufacturing Leadership Council hosted a webinar to demonstrate interoperability under one shared architecture.

“Manufacturing has reached an inflection point. We have enormous ambitions for smart manufacturing and industrial AI as a nation, but those ambitions will not be realized at scale if our data remains trapped in proprietary...

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Smart Manufacturing

Manufacturing has always evolved.

New equipment changes how products are made. New technology changes how information moves. New customer expectations change how manufacturers compete.

Today, those changes are happening faster.

Artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, connected equipment, sensors, digital twins, advanced materials, additive...

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Cybersecurity, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Jobs, Materials, Photonics, Robotics, Semi-Conductor, Smart Manufacturing, Workforce

“Nose presses” is not an official metric of workforce recruiting success for the Penn State Digital Foundry on 5th Avenue in New Kensington, PA, but it is hugely symbolic in the quest to expand the manufacturing talent pipeline in communities, according to Sherri McCleary, the Executive Director of the foundry.

A nose presser is a passerby who...