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Jul 31, 2024

July 2024 Newsletter

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Registration is officially open for the 2024 CESMII Annual Member Meeting at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and our July newsletter has everything else you need to know too.

In this edition:

  • The Smart Manufacturing Executive Council shares its point of view on revitalizing U.S. manufacturing, including plans for an industry-wide playbook of smart manufacturing use cases.

  • The Department of Energy opened a $33 million funding opportunity to advance smart manufacturing technologies for the clean energy transition.

  • A case study on the "Win the Hour" solution, showing a 4% reduction in scrap and a 13.7% increase in discrete part production at a test site.

  • Five new members joined CESMII this quarter, from Bevin Bros. Manufacturing to regional MEP centers across Connecticut, Florida, and Utah.

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.