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Smart Manufacturing Mindset™, presented by CESMII - The Smart Manufacturing Institute & SME, is a monthly webinar where we challenge guests to think differently about manufacturing. We'll explore the nuances that hide in plain sight – behind the acronyms, techno-jargon and misinformation – to get to the truths that hold real value for real people in the industry. In partnership with the Department of Energy, CESMII was established as a primary advocate and resource for Smart Manufacturing, including networking, education and workforce development, funded research projects and a Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform to enable your digital transformation.

Recent Episodes

Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: When Two Paths Converge: UNS, i3X, and the Future of Manufacturing

In this episode, Jeff Winter sits down with John Dyck, Jonathan Wise, and Walker Reynolds to explore the convergence of Unified Namespace (UNS) and CESMII's i3X. Together, they unpack the shared industry challenge that brought these frameworks together, why they complement rather than compete with one another, and what this means for the future of interoperable, AI-ready manufacturing. They also discuss the work that still lies ahead and how the manufacturing community can help shape wh...

57 MIN

Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Why the Smartest Investment in AI Might Be a SM Roadmap Certification

While vendors promise transformation and headlines declare a revolution, walk into most plants today and the story looks a lot different. In this episode of the Smart Manufacturing Mindset, Jeff Winter sits down with three people who have seen this gap up close and have been working to close it: Suraj Sriram, Digital Manufacturing Leader at Kimberly-Clark, and Jim Wetzel and Tim Stuart, the architects and instructors behind CESMII's Certified Smart Manufacturing Roadmap Professional program....

38 MIN

Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: i3X™ Explained

Finally! A Path to Manufacturing Interoperability and OT/IT Convergence What if manufacturing applications could finally speak the same language? The i3X™ initiative is tackling one of the biggest challenges in smart manufacturing today: the explosion of incompatible APIs across platforms, historians, and industrial software. And clearly, this is a conversation the industry has been waiting for. In the next Smart Manufacturing Mindset™ LinkedIn Live, we’re sitting down with three core memb...

54 MIN

Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: WEF Lighthouses — Lessons from the Leaders (Part 2)

Part 1 of this special two-part series explored the journey of the Lighthouse factories. We looked at how global leaders from Foxconn, Johnson & Johnson, Schneider Electric, Unilever, and Western Digital navigated culture, scale, technology, and legacy challenges to reach world-class digital maturity. Now, in Part 2, we go deeper. This episode shifts from the “what happened” to the “what it takes.” Our Lighthouse guests share their most important lessons learned, the mistakes that shape...

36 MIN

Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: WEF Lighthouses — Lessons from the Leaders (Part 1)

What happens when a select group of World Economic Forum Lighthouse factories from Foxconn Industrial Internet, Schneider Electric, Western Digital and Unilever share the same (virtual) stage? Their leaders unpack the cultural mindset, data architecture, and change‑management moves they all swear by, then reveal how industry, scale, and legacy constraints steer each site down a unique path of technology and rollout. · Common DNA: Universal principles every Lighthous...

38 MIN