Apr 30, 2025

April 2025 Newsletter

Congratulations to Jim Wetzel, recognized as a 2025 Manufacturing Leadership Awards finalist, honored at the gala closing out Rethink: Accelerating Digital Transformation in Manufacturing. Our April newsletter celebrates that news alongside a busy month of updates.

Also in this edition:

A save-the-date for the Smart Manufacturing Architecture Imperatives Workshop on June 5, mapping SM compliance imperatives to information models, platforms, and APIs.
Recaps from SXSW 2025 and Hannover Messe, where CESMII advisors joined conversations on the future of U.S. manufacturing and international data ecosystems.
An update on expanding SM Skills Micro-Credentials, including three new credentials in development around data connectivity, resource optimization, and OT cybersecurity.
A case study on UTEP's Smart Manufacturing certification program supporting an underserved, predominantly Hispanic workforce region.
A look at CESMII and Phoenix Contact's demonstrations at Automate 2025, showing how data contracts and information modeling accelerate solution development.

About CESMII

CESMII – the Smart Manufacturing Institute – has a total current investment commitment of $201M from Department of Energy funding and public/private partnership contributions, with a mandate to create a more competitive manufacturing environment in the US through advanced sensing, analytics, modeling, control, and platforms. CESMII is one of 17 Manufacturing USA institutes on this mission to increase manufacturing productivity, global competitiveness, and reinvestment by increasing energy productivity, improving economic performance and raising workforce capacity. University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) is the program and administrative home of CESMII. For more information about CESMII, its history and Smart Manufacturing, visit cesmii.org.