TECHNOLOGY

CESMII’s strategy starts with a focus on creating an open approach to organizing and classifying data, regardless of how that data is transported, using a concept we call the Smart Manufacturing Profile – a standards-based approach to describing the data that can be found (or at least, should be found!) in a given system or process.

Next, CESMII is setting the bar for how manufacturing information is stored – namely, organized as objects, derived from a type, persisted in graph relationships with each, with attribute data stored historically. These concepts are not new, they’ve been prevalent in object-oriented programming since the 1990s. Manufacturing systems either lack such core building blocks, or have implementations that are proprietary and vendor-specific.

Finally, CESMII has focused on defining an interoperable programming interface – a common API that any platform can implement that ensures portability of applications across vendor ecosystems. This API is graph-aware, Cloud agnostic, and based on an open and evolving schema that provides capabilities that allow any application, whether it’s a new visualization, an analysis tool, or a modern AI, to explore and exploit the Graph, securely and with appropriate access control.