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Aug 31, 2024

August 2024 Newsletter

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Time is running out to register for the 2024 CESMII Annual Member Meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Our August newsletter has the last-call details, plus a packed edition of funding opportunities and new member welcomes.

Also in this edition:

  • A webcast on bridging OT and IT in college industrial labs, exploring how academic organizations are teaching smart manufacturing skills.

  • News that the DOE's Manufacturing & Energy Supply Chains Office made $63 million available to expand battery recycling and boost smart manufacturing access for small and medium-sized manufacturers.

  • A case study on machine and process health monitoring in industrial valve manufacturing, showing gains in scrap reduction, unplanned maintenance, and throughput.

  • A warm welcome to eleven new CESMII members, including Accenture, First Resonance, HighByte, HiveMQ, and Nestlé Purina PetCare.

  • A congratulations to members SolaBlock and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on their photovoltaic precast wall panel collaboration.

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.