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 members of the i3X™ working group to talk about: What is i3X™ What problems does i3X address? How will i3X transform manufacturing architectures? Whether your roots are in OT or IT, if you’re a manufacturer, systems integrator, application developer, or technology provider trying to make sense of industrial data architecture, this one is for you! 🎙️ Aron Semle – Chief Technology Officer at HighByte 🎙️ Matthew Parris – Director of Quality Test Systems, GE Appliances, a Haier company 🎙️ Jonathan Wise – Chief Technology Architect at CESMII 🎙️ Jeff Winter, Host and Smart Manufacturing Advisor at CESMII © 2026 CESMII - The Smart Manufacturing Institute, A Program in UCLA, 520 Portola Plaza, MS 5308 – Box 95155, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1557, USA, (888) 720-8096