The USA is working through its various agencies to support American Manufacturing.  Manufacturing Institutes, especially CEMSII, are oriented to democratizing Smart Manufacturing, enabling new levels of energy efficiency, and the competitiveness of USA companies.

Industry Keynote: Unlocking the Strategic Value of Smart Manufacturing

As Vice President of Procter & Gamble’s Global Smart Platforms Technology & Innovation team, Jeff Kent has learned what it takes to both build Smart Manufacturing solutions and what it takes to see them successfully deployed at scale – contributing significant value to P&G’s bottom line. In this keynote, he will share his insights, guidance and lessons learned on this Smart Manufacturing journey. It’s about much more than technology; it’s about a team approach, about clear, outcome-oriented relationships with his clients (the plants), it’s about solving their problems in a cost effect way, but doing so in a way that engages all of the stakeholders – people impacted by these systems, and making sure they can sustain them. It’s also about understanding their constraints, and determining how to partner and collaborate with like-minded organizations that can help them accelerate that journey.

Each speaker will give a 5 minute overview, sharing 3 – 5 of their most practical, helpful insights (recommendations, learnings, guidance) for the Smart Manufacturing journey, and a direct connection on how CESMII is contributing to their SM Journey.

A more competitive manufacturing future demands a new approach. Our existing technologies, methodologies and cultures have brought us this far, but our productivity as a manufacturing nation has plateaued and declined over the past decade – a strong indicator that transformation isn’t just strategic, it’s a matter of survival. The 4th Industrial Revolution was supposed to herald that transformation, but it hasn’t yet materialized. Join us to see our progress in bringing this ecosystem together, to catalyze and accelerate the journey across the I3.0 to I4.0 chasm, to see Smart Manufacturing in action!

This session highlights how CESMII, as a collaborative innovation institute, helps address Smart Manufacturing technology and workforce development needs of our stakeholders.  Guided by the roadmap, we will articulate how our co-funded, collaboratively developed initiatives lead to significant impact on throughput, quality, cost and energy productivity through Smart Manufacturing.  We will also highlight how we collaborate with other institutes, and how CESMII helps the DOE accomplish its mission.

CESMII is about network-of-networks that help drive the SM transformation, made possible by collaboration. At our very essence is bringing together individuals, organizations and technologies to create one greater good.  CESMII’s network-of-networks simultaneously drives reach on a national scale as well as targeted by industry verticals and technology horizontals.  This ‘reach’ is bidirectional as it enables the dissemination of CESMII’s service offerings to its national membership base and for providing the “voice of membership” back to CESMII.  CESMII’s network-of-networks is comprised of the following components: 

• Smart Manufacturing Innovation Centers (“SMICs”), that are a collection highly visible, credible, high value, regional extensions of CESMII. Each SMIC is an independent organization with strong industry engagement and core competencies related to a key industry and/or a technology horizontal. 
• Affinity Groups provide a safe harbor for members to bring their abilities, share concerns/business problems, outline their capabilities and interests, and to develop a plan to engage CESMII resources & strategies as needed. In addition, the conversations and discussions maximize opportunity to solve real Smart Manufacturing problems for members within that industry sector or technology horizontal 
• Manufacturing Extension Partnerships (MEPs) are partners that work in tandem with our SMIC’s to provide more regional connections to small & midsize manufacturers  (SMMs).  This is critical as SMMs represent 98% of all US manufacturing companies. 
• System Integrators (SI’s) play a key “cross pollinating” role as they work with manufacturers to deploy SM technology solutions by integrating across platforms (HW and SW) and across vendors. 

CESMII has a strong, diverse portfolio of Smart Manufacturing projects representing significant investment in technology and workforce development.  The portfolio includes projects covering enabling R&D, SM innovation, platform capability and workforce development.  We will provide a high-level overview of our funded initiatives and status of our project portfolio.  Selected project team leaders will share accomplishments, outcomes and expected benefits from their efforts.

CESMII has a strong, diverse portfolio of Smart Manufacturing projects representing significant investment in technology and workforce development.  The portfolio includes projects covering enabling R&D, SM innovation, platform capability and workforce development.  We will provide a high-level overview of our funded initiatives, project portfolio status and share accomplishments and benefits from selected projects including testimonials from team members. You’ll hear some of our success from these project participants.

The U.S. is in a prime position to become a global leader in manufacturing thanks to several factors. However, we are facing several challenges to get there including the need for more skilled workers. Communities of all sizes are dependent on good paying manufacturing jobs. In this session we will discuss the competencies and skills required to help manufacturers achieve the higher level of productivity required to compete globally and reshore more jobs. We will discuss how CESMII’s ecosystem is helping develop and train the workforce with these skills.  

The SM Platform and SM Profile concepts are enjoying broad collaboration and adoption, leading to significant progress as they’re exercised by project teams, and evolved through the input of CESMII members and contributors. Come learn about some of the exciting steps forward we’re taking, and get a sneak peek of what we’re working on next. The session will include a demo of modern and open smart manufacturing technologies interoperating with the Platform.

Smart Manufacturing is difficult for small and medium manufacturers to afford. And perhaps more importantly, if they can afford it, do they have the expertise in-house to sustain it? The cost and complexity of most SM solutions today makes embarking on this journey a risky one. This DIY SM Demo will highlight how CESMII’s approach to democratizing SM (reducing cost & complexity to make it accessible for all) dramatically reduces your risk in getting started on this journey; how you can start small (without a significant capital outlay) and build it organically with your existing workforce, as they learn and grow with this system.

Learn the basics of SM Platform technologies and concepts, including defining information models, connecting to data sources, visualizing, and analyzing data, and managing user and developer access. Open standards and common applications will be addressed throughout.

Go to the next level by learning how to implement and develop smart manufacturing technologies, including adopting published information models, ingesting data sources programmatically, extending the SM Edge, extracting data into external analysis tools, and best practices for application development.

Smart Manufacturing is not about implementing new technology. It’s about aligning people, process, technology, and your business strategy to deliver specific business outcomes. This session is a hands-on workshop designed for manufacturers, of any size, to take the first step to your future state. In this session you will be guided through an assessment of your company.  The assessment will provide you with a clear view of your current state, and most importantly, suggested next steps you can take now to improve your business outcomes.  Come prepared to take this first step and ensure your company is on the path to success.

There is much buzz about the potential benefits of technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, smart machines, cobots, and augmented reality but the secret sauce of Smart Manufacturing is in how we thread solutions together to achieve our technology-enabled business strategies and outcomes. That “secret sauce” is composed of the SM First Principles. In this session we will learn about the SM First Principles through examples contrasting against traditional Industry 3 methods from the past few decades. You will leave with a clear understanding of what Smart Manufacturing is and how it will help your company achieve results that are fast, proactive, interoperable, secure, scalable, resilient, and sustainable. Learn how these considerations help maximize the value and future-proof the investment in Smart Manufacturing projects.