Jan 31, 2025

January 2025 Newsletter

CESMII has joined forces with major standardization organizations, including the OPC Foundation, IDTA, Digital Twin Consortium, VDMA, and ZVEI, to develop a system architecture supporting the upcoming Digital Product Passport, ahead of the European Commission's 2027 deadline. Our January newsletter has the details on this collaboration, plus a look at what's on deck for the rest of the year.

Also in this edition:

A preview of SXSW 2025, where CESMII Smart Manufacturing Advisor Jeff Winter joins a panel on "Smart, Sustainable, Streamlined: Factories of the Future."
Enrollment open for the Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Roadmap Professional Certification course, starting March 31 with RPI and NxGen.
A case study showing a 50% improvement in equipment utilization for small manufacturers using IoT-driven Smart Manufacturing tools.
A warm welcome to new members AWS and Escape Velocity Systems, each bringing new angles on supply chain and manufacturing interoperability.

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.