SM Architecture Imperatives Workshop

NOW AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND

Discover the path to Smart Manufacturing Interoperability

Now available at your convenience. This on-demand experience brings together leading voices across the Smart Manufacturing ecosystem to explore the principles, architectures, and strategies needed to unlock the true potential of Smart Manufacturing Interoperability.

The Strategic Role of OT and IT in

Strengthening the U.S.’ Competitiveness Through Smart Manufacturing

CESMII CEO John Dyck opens with a compelling look at the strategic role of OT and IT in strengthening U.S. manufacturing. He introduces CESMII's mission to reduce the cost and complexity of using real-time data, outlines key strategies for transformation, and highlights the importance of interoperability and standardized information models through collaboration with partners like the OPC Foundation and VDMA.

What are Smart Manufacturing Imperatives?

In this session, Jonathan Wise, Chief Technology Architect at CESMII, presents the core requirements for Smart Manufacturing (SM) Compliance, centered on three key imperatives. He explores how open, standards-based information modeling (SM Profiles), interoperable platform requirements, and a common API can drive scalability, reduce complexity, and unlock real-time value from manufacturing data across systems, applications, and the supply chain.

DEMO

INTEROPERABILITY IN ACTION

Presented by Suellen Lorkowski, Application Engineer at CESMII, this live demonstration brings Smart Manufacturing imperatives to life through a real-world use case.

SM Imperative #1
Discover and apply a Press Profile from the CESMII Marketplace

SM Imperative #2
Instantiate and visualize the press in ThinkIQ’s SM Interoperability Platform using a Knowledge Graph

SM Imperative #3
Stream real-time data into a Grafana dashboard via the Open API, enabling automatic instance detection

Suellen also showcases how this architecture supports integration with both legacy systems (like Ignition and FactoryTalk Optix) and modern tools (including CESMII’s OEE App, Quickbase CMMS, and NCD’s predictive maintenance sensors).

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY EXPERTS

Hear from three expert panels—each diving into one of the core Smart Manufacturing Imperatives. These sessions bring together industry leaders and innovators to share insights, challenges, and real-world approaches to driving interoperability and transformation across manufacturing systems.

SM IMPERATIVE 1 PANEL

Open, Standards-Based Information-Modeling Strategy for Manufacturing Ops

Facilitated by Olivia Morales, CESMII

Pal Roach, Rockwell Automation, Sr. Principal Industry Consultant
Travis Cox, Inductive Automation, Chief Technology Evangelist
Andreas Faath, VDMA, Managing Director, Machine Information Interoperability
Arlen Nipper, Cirrus Link, President & CEO

SM IMPERATIVE 2 PANEL

A Clear Set of Requirements for SM Interoperability Platform Compliance

Facilitated by Jonathan Wise, CESMII

Doug Lawson, ThinkIQ, Chief Executive Officer
John Harrington, HighByte, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Mark Besser, SymphonyAI, Sr. Vice President

SM IMPERATIVE 3 PANEL

An open, common API for Manufacturing Systems

Facilitated by Matthew Parris, GE Appliances, Director Industry 4.0

Aron Semle, HighByte, Chief Technology Officer
Caleb Eastman, Siemens, Principal Key Expert
Erich Barnstedt, Microsoft, Senior Director & Architect, Industrial Standards
Jonathan Wise, CESMII, Chief Technology Architect

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The topics covered many of the issues that we deal with on a daily basis with our customers. By being able to reference some "industry standard" would give us more credibility.