Current State Assessment, Benchmark, Insights and Gaps
A crowd-sourced survey is conducted across a broad audience to establish a baseline understanding of where the organization stands today. As well as benchmarking data to see where the organization measures across dozens of companies.
By Function Interviews and Insight Analysis
Structured interviews uncover key business drivers and opportunities, educate leaders on what is possible with smart manufacturing and evaluate the business value of specific opportunity areas and initiatives.
Multi Year Strategic, Prioritized Roadmap
The roadmap organizes initiatives into Now, Next and Future phases with defined project charters, aligns people, process and technology to desired business objectives across both current and future states and captures the strategy in an "elevator speech" format that clearly communicates the why and the what.
Our experience was very positive. We completed the process in just eight weeks. Our CEO moves fast and doesn’t believe in waiting three to five years for results. We worked with Jennifer Mansfield from Rexel, who was fantastic. Rexel has a new group focused on smart manufacturing and intelligence, and that’s how we got connected. I first learned about CESMII at a joint event with Manufacturing Works last year, and it’s been a great partnership since. The process brought together a strong leadership team with full CEO support. The six pillars of Smart Manufacturing helped us align roles, responsibilities, and processes across the organization, especially as we’ve been growing quickly and adding new departments. Our biggest takeaway? “People first, process strong, and technology enabled.” Many assume Smart Manufacturing is all about technology, but we learned it starts with people and processes. That alignment has been huge for us as an organization.
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Explore
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Assess
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Focus
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Roadmap
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Execute & Sustain
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Validate
Explore
Build a shared understanding of what smart manufacturing is, what it can do and why it matters for your organization. This step creates the common language and context your leadership team needs to move forward together.
Assess
Get a clear, data-driven picture of where your organization stands today. Using CESMII's Business Practices Assessment, your team measures current capabilities across people, processes and technology, then benchmarks those results against hundreds of other manufacturers.
Focus
Connect your current state to the future you want. This step uses your assessment results and deep-dive interviews with key stakeholders to surface your top opportunities, understand the business value behind them and define where you want to be in 3 to 5 years.
Roadmap
Turn insight into action. Your Certified Roadmap Professional works alongside your team to build a prioritized, phased roadmap organized into Now, Next and Future initiatives, each tied directly to your business objectives and ready to communicate across the organization.
Execute & Sustain
Put the plan in motion. With your roadmap in hand, this phase focuses on implementing prioritized initiatives, keeping teams aligned and building the organizational habits needed to sustain progress over time.
Validate
Measure what matters. This step confirms that your investments are delivering the business outcomes you set out to achieve, and helps you course-correct or build on what's working as your smart manufacturing journey evolves. Your smart manufacturing journey doesn't end when the roadmap is built. Reconnecting with your CESMII Certified Roadmap Professional gives you a structured opportunity to measure progress against the outcomes you set out to achieve, celebrate wins, and identify where to adjust.
It starts with a Business Practices Assessment Survey
The Business Practices Assessment is a structured survey that takes a close look at where your organization stands today across seven key areas of smart manufacturing. Before you begin, review the questions below to get a sense of what topics are covered and who on your team might be best suited to help answer them.
A 194-Year-Old Bell Maker Rings in Smart Manufacturing
Bevin Bells used a CESMII Smart Manufacturing Roadmap to go 90% digital and grow sales 14% in two years, while working toward tripling the business by 2032.
$500K in Industry 4.0 Projects, Backed by a Clear Roadmap
Cleveland Wheel & Brake Systems used CESMII's Smart Manufacturing Roadmap to cut through the noise, gain 10+ OEE points in machining, and get new initiatives approved.
88% Less Downtime, Starting With People and Processes
Novagard Solutions used CESMII's Smart Manufacturing Roadmap to define its business needs before buying technology, and cut downtime 88% year over year.
A Vendor-Neutral Language for Enterprise Transformation
CESMII certification gave Kimberly-Clark's digital manufacturing team a shared framework to align leadership and scale Smart Manufacturing to 70+ sites.
Not Sure Where to Start? Neither Were They.
Maryland MADE 4.0 used readiness and Roadmap assessments to give manufacturers a clear first step. Find yours with CESMII's Business Practices Assessment.
From a Collection of Projects to One Connected Strategy
Andersen Corporation used CESMII's Smart Manufacturing Roadmap to align IT, OT and supply chain around shared priorities and build a repeatable blueprint for the future.