TECHNOLOGY
Smart Manufacturing can help restore U.S. manufacturing productivity, but only if innovation can scale. CESMII’s three Smart Manufacturing Imperatives create a vendor-neutral foundation, so proven solutions move from one line, plant, and platform to the next.
Our Focus
The Smart Manufacturing Imperatives
Across 59 funded projects, CESMII saw Smart Manufacturing solve real operational problems. We also saw the same barrier every time: each solution had to rediscover the data, rebuild the context, and recreate the integration. The issue isn't a lack of technology. It is a lack of interoperability.
Three imperatives form a vendor-neutral foundation that turns one-off innovation into capability manufacturers can reuse across lines, plants, and platforms.
Shared ways to describe data
SM Profiles™
Open, standards-based templates that give every system a common understanding of what data means and how it is named and shaped.
A shared language for data, so systems work together and AI can be trusted.
Systems that work together
Smart Manufacturing Interoperability Platforms (SMIP™)
Platforms that keep data out of silos by storing it as connected objects and relationships that software and AI can put to work.
Connected plant-floor knowledge for better manufacturing decisions.
Open, common programmers interface
Industrial Information Interoperability eXchange (i3X™)
A vendor-agnostic, open, common API for interacting with contextualized manufacturing information platforms.
Apps that move between systems, faster new ideas, and AI that can grow.