Jul 31, 2026

July 2026 Newsletter

Nearly 1,700 people registered and about 800 attended live to watch 4 manufacturers and 32+ competing technology providers demonstrate real interoperability under one shared architecture at CESMII's Interoperability Forum. The full session is now available on-demand, and our newsletter has the recap along with a major announcement.

Also in this edition:

The release of i3X 1.0, a complete, implementation-ready open API specification for manufacturing interoperability, including a conformance test suite, Python client library, and MCP server.
A Smart Manufacturing Mindset episode exploring how Unified Namespace (UNS) and i3X converge, featuring John Dyck, Jonathan Wise, and Walker Reynolds.
A new Manufacturing Information Modeling & Namespace Foundations course launching September 9-10.
CESMII's participation in HighByte DataOps Days this fall in Atlanta and Cleveland.
A workshop series on building a practical Smart Manufacturing roadmap, kicking off October 1 in Cleveland at MX.0 Midwest.

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.