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CESMII Reverse Engineering
CESMII
Automation
Reverse Engineering the Smart Manufacturing Mindset

Dozens of research reports detail the plague of pilot purgatory in digital transformation initiatives. Take, for example, the 2025 Smart Manufacturing and Operations Survey by Deloitte. A key finding revealed that while 98% of manufacturers have started a digital transformation project, the vast majority remain stuck in the pilot phase, unable to...

The Smart Manufacturing Institute (CESMII)
CESMII
Automation
Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: i3X™ Explained Podcast

Manufacturers are navigating a growing challenge: fragmented, proprietary APIs across platforms, historians, and applications are creating integration complexity that slows innovation. The Industrial Information Interoperability eXchange (i3X™) is emerging as a solution—an open, vendor-agnostic API designed to standardize how applications interact...

The Smart Manufacturing Institute (CESMII)
CESMII
Automation
Data Sharing, AI-ready Data and Data-first Smart Manufacturing: an Industry Coalition Experience – NIST/NSF Workshop Study

Jim Davis, UCLA Office of Advanced Research Computing, Vice Provost IT (CIO/CTO) & Professor Emeritus, executive oversight CESMII, highlights the findings of three industry-academic-government studies conducted between 2020 and 2025 on AI in Smart Manufacturing/I4.0 enterprises. These studies provide direction for CESMII’s operational AI and data...

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Design, Education, Manufacturing
Manufacturing USA Drives $540m Investment and 900+ R&D Projects

The Manufacturing USA network invested nearly $540m in advanced manufacturing initiatives and delivered more than 900 research and development projects, according to its latest annual report.

The report highlights the growing role of the public-private partnership model in strengthening domestic manufacturing capabilities, supply chains, and...

AdvancedManufacturing.org
Sustainability, Sustainable Manufacturing
Reverse Engineering the Smart Manufacturing Mindset

Conversations about digital transformation often focus on technology. Advancements in AI, software, the Internet of Things (IoT) and automation are supposed to, almost magically, transform legacy and manual processes into smarter, connected systems.

So how’s that working out? Not well, by many accounts.

Dozens of research reports detail the plague...

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Building the Manufacturing Talent Pipeline

“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...