Collaboration, COVID-19, Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Workforce

This past year brought the country and our world unprecedented challenges, which now present opportunities to innovate and build a new path forward. Using lessons from this year, the manufacturing industry is poised to undergo a transformation.

Supporting this work are the institutes that are part of Manufacturing USA®, a national network of...

Automation, Digital Manufacturing, Sustainability

CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute is excited to add GE Digital to our rapidly growing ranks of partners and members. Interoperability, community, and innovation that can scale are essential for a more competitive and resilient manufacturing environment, and it’s a pleasure to welcome market leaders that embody these values to our Smart...

Department of Defense
Automation, Biomanufacturing, Composites, Design, Economy, Education, Energy, IIOT, Impact, Innovation, Materials, Network, Photonics, Process, Security, Sustainability, Workforce

The Department of Defense is announcing a request for information (RFI) to identify partnership opportunities for a new Manufacturing Innovation Institute dedicated to synthetic biology, or SynBio, for non-biomedical applications. The SynBio institute aims to deliver new capabilities by "scaling-up" critical bio-manufacturing processes and related...

Process Intensification, Sustainability

Since the late 1980s, the concept of sustainability has grown from corporate catchword to competitive advantage. According to a 2011 McKinsey Report [1] , corporate reputation was supplanted as the most frequently cited reason for actively pursuing sustainability strategies. As data emerged, companies began viewing sustainability as the key to...

Automation, IIOT, Smart Manufacturing, Sustainability

The Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CESMII), a Manufacturing USA institute, and its Governance Board welcomes Mr. John Dyck as its CEO. John will succeed Jim Wetzel, who has been acting as CESMII’s interim CEO since Fall 2017.

John comes to CESMII from Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK), where he was the Global Director of...