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June 2022 Newsletter

To view all sessions on-demand – you must be registered for Smart Manufacturing Experience and logged into the event app using your registration credentials. If you have not registered for the event, use code SMX22ODCESMII for free access.

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Member Annual Session

Onsite at Smart Manufacturing Experience we held our annual CESMII member session with all onsite participants to discuss the institute’s progress, future plans and project outcomes. 

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SMX Event Highlights 

Catch up on all the event highlights including on-demand access to sessions, video of the Smart Manufacturing Award Ceremony and photos from the event. Thank you for everyone who participated. 

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2022 Smart Manufacturing Sustainability Study

The results are in. CESMII & SME have been tracking the Smart Manufacturing

market for over 5 years with quantitative and qualitative primary research.

This survey continues our research into the Smart Manufacturing market and

aims to support its participants with information about the strategies necessary

to make them leaders in the 21st century.

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Executive Discussion

John Dyck, CESMII and Jeannine Kunz, SME discuss the implications of the Smart Manufacturing Sustainability Study and how these two organizations are working together to make a difference.

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Attracting and Training the Next Generation Manufacturing Workforce

Manufacturers are seeking people with the right skills for the advanced manufacturing jobs of today and tomorrow and need ways to upskill their current staff for the complex manufacturing process of the future.

This panel discusses the challenges and the types of education solutions that organizations are implementing to help close the gap. It is vital that manufacturers and educators act now to grow the next generation of industrial workers.

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Getting Manufacturers Started on a Good Journey: Using the CESMII SM Acceleration Tools for Fast Business Results

Do you want to learn how to position smart manufacturing techniques to strengthen the strategic competitive edge and business results for manufacturers? If so, then plan to attend this session hosted by Conrad Leiva from CESMII – the Smart Manufacturing Institute on

Jul 27, 2022 at 10:00 AM.

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Keynote: How Can Manufacturers Rebuild the Global Supply Chain

Supply chain challenges having renewed calls for the global manufacturing sector to rebuild and reshore capacity, invest in new technologies, and confront an existential labor shortage. Join a panel of industry leading voices, including Conrad Leiva from CESMII, in manufacturing who will discuss how they are approaching supply chain challenges, and how their organizations view their role in the global manufacturing economy.

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Smart Manufacturing Interoperability and Harmonization Panel

Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, Big Data, new and old capital equipment – this panel will cover data interoperability and harmonizing new technology introduction to the manufacturing environment as well as applicable standards and approaches for practical affordable implementations of Industry 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing.

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CEO John Dyck joined Ken Forster from Momenta to discuss how #reshoring#resilience and #renewables have put #smartmanufacturing in the limelight of every nation and how CESMII is making a difference here in the US.

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CESMII’s Haresh Malkani and Jim Davis participated in the 2022 Advanced Manufacturing & Processing Conference (AMPc) June 1-3, 2022 which brought together academics, industry, and government representatives to highlight the development of process intensification, smart manufacturing and AI that impact manufacturing at large. 

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We have updated the projects page on our website to serve you better.

Check it out to see the wide range of projects that CESMII supports. 

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Visit brfoods.com 

for more information

Baldwin Richardson Foods Co. (BRF) is a global manufacturer of custom food and beverage ingredients and one of the largest African-American family-owned and-operated businesses in the food industry. The Company has strong supply relationships with some of the world’s largest Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) and Food Service customers. BRF joins CESMII to learn about smart manufacturing best practices, and to take advantage of the networking opportunity and the affinity groups as BRF is both a small to medium manufacturer and in the food and beverage space.

Visit win911.com

for more information

WIN-911 is the most widely used alarm notification platform in Industry and lloT, protecting over 18,000 facilities in 80 countries on six continents.

WIN-911 delivers machine alarms, events and real time data values through multiple notification methods (smartphones/tables, voice (digital & analog), SMS, email, and plant announcement systems) and provides a logic engine to decide who should receive critical alarms and how notifications should escalate in real time. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with offices in France, China and Mexico, and has a network of leading industrial distributors and system integrators around the globe.

WIN-911 joins CESMII because as open standards and protocols gain traction in industry, they want to be connected with industry leaders to ensure our development roadmap supports smart manufacturing initiatives.

Do you know someone interested in becoming a CESMII Member?

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Mission Critical with Manufacturing USA institutes

7 of the 16 institutes participated at Smart Manufacturing Experience: ARM (robotics), IACMI (composites), MXD (digital), America Makes (additive), CYMANII (cybersecurity), CESMII (smart manufacturing), and REMADE (remanufacturing).

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Panel Discussion

Learn how institutes in the Manufacturing USA network spur innovation for SMMs to bring their proof of concept to pilot scale. Institutes will provide an overview of their advanced manufacturing technology, and how public-private partnership are vital to reshoring manufacturing and developing the next generation of advanced technologies, resilient supply chains, and the future workforce.

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Grand Opening

The Digital Foundry at New Kensington, opened it’s doors June 1st. The state-of-the-art space, which was recently named one of eight Smart Manufacturing Innovation Centers by the U.S. Department of Energy in partnership with the Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Institute, will serve as a launching pad for training and access to modern software tools by linking digital data and equipment into manufacturing, operations and business management for industry, as well as research and educational components for students and workforce training.

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Event Schedule

We are looking forward to attending, exhibiting and speaking at more industry events in 2022.

See what conferences are on our radar for the year and let us know if you have an event we should consider attending. Please contact info@cesmii.org.

Upcoming Events

National Members’ Meeting

Membership Meetings 

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July

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N/A

August

Meeting

8/17/2022

September

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N/A

October

Meeting

10/19/2022

November

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N/A

December

Meeting

12/14/2022

2022 Affinity Group Meeting Schedule

Affinity Group Calls

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Aerospace

Food

SMM

July

Meeting

7/14/2022

7/13/2022

7/21/2022

August

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TBD Working Group

TBD Working Group

September

Meeting

9/8/2022

9/14/2022

9/15/2022

October

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TBD Working Group

TBD Working Group

TBD Working Group

November

Meeting

11/10/2021

11/09/2021

11/17/2021

December

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TBD Working Group

TBD Working Group

What is an Affinity Group? A group of CESMII members with an interest in a particular manufacturing sector or a technology horizontal. We hold monthly meetings that are intended for members to bring their abilities, capabilities, and interests to engage CESMII resources & strategies as needed to address the sector or problem.

Already a member? Be sure to mark your calendars with the dates above!

Interested in joining one of our Affinity Groups?

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