Jul 31, 2025

July 2025 Newsletter

Registration is open for the U.S. Smart Manufacturing Interoperability Summit, hitting Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago this August to dig into the future of OT/IT interoperability for manufacturing operations and supply chains. Our July newsletter has all the details, along with a full slate of other updates.

Also in this edition:

A LinkedIn Live conversation bringing together technology leaders from Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, Siemens, Microsoft, AWS, HighByte, Inductive Automation, and ThinkIQ to discuss openness and interoperability in Smart Manufacturing.
An invitation to help shape the 2026-2030 National Strategic Plan for Advanced Manufacturing at a special town hall hosted with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
An update on CloudLib, the global repository for Smart Manufacturing Profiles developed with the OPC Foundation, and its expanding role in supporting Asset Administration Shell templates.
New Accenture research surveying 552 factory managers on the future of manufacturing operations.
A case study on Penn State's Factory 4.0 Educational Toolkit for hands-on Industry 4.0 training.

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.