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New National Academies’ Study: “A Vision for the Manufacturing USA Program in 2030 and 2035”

A Vision for the Manufacturing USA Program in 2030 and 2035

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released its new independent consensus study, developed by a committee of experts, which offers a comprehensive vision for Manufacturing USA’s next decade. The report outlines how the program can continue to catalyze the...

CESMII i3X Launch
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Automation, Sustainable Manufacturing
CESMII Launches i3X™, a Global Open API Initiative to Unlock Interoperability and Scale AI in Manufacturing

Manufacturers today face a common challenge: fragmented OT and IT systems that trap data in silos, constraining productivity, innovation and visibility across operations. These limitations slow AI adoption, and hinder improvements in efficiency, quality, supply chain resilience and labor productivity initiatives. i3X addresses this by introducing a...

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...

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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...