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The Smart Manufacturing Imperatives

A vendor-neutral interoperability contract for shared meaning, connected context, and open access. Three imperatives that turn one-off innovation into capability you can reuse across lines, plants, and platforms.

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Innovation Is Possible.
Scaling It Is the Hard Part.

Across 59 funded projects, CESMII saw Smart Manufacturing solve real operational problems. We also saw the same pattern every time: each solution had to start over.

Rediscover
the data

Rebuild
the context

Recreate
the integration

Repeat
at the next site

The issue isn’t a lack of technology. It is a lack of interoperability,
the mechanism that converts invention into reusable capability.

SM IMPERATIVES

Three Imperatives. One Interoperable Foundation.

Common information models, interoperable platforms, and a common
API work together so every new application builds on what came before instead of creating another silo.

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SHARED WAYS TO DESCRIBE DATA

SM Profiles™

Open, standards-based templates for data. SM Profiles give every participant a common understanding of what data means, how it is named and shaped, and protect that shared definition as it moves between systems. Built on the open OPC UA information modeling format, they work as reusable building blocks in mixed architectures

WHAT YOU GET

A shared language for data, so systems work together, data stays well managed, and AI can be trusted.

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SYSTEMS THAT WORK TOGETHER

Smart Manufacturing Interoperability Platforms (SMIP™)

Interoperable platforms keep manufacturing data out of silos. They store structured data as objects, connected through named relationships, from asset hierarchies to richer graphs. That connected context becomes knowledge that software tools and AI can put to work.

WHAT YOU GET

Connected plant-floor knowledge that helps people make better manufacturing decisions.

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OPEN, COMMON PROGRAMMERS INTERFACE

Industrial Information Interoperability eXchange (i3X™)

i3X™ provides a vendor-agnostic, open, common API for interacting with contextualized manufacturing information platforms. Rather than re-wiring data through middleware, i3X standardizes how applications interact with information platforms themselves, so developers and AI agents can discover, browse, read, and update data the same way on any conformant platform.

 

WHAT YOU GET

Apps that move between systems, easier setup with little coding, faster new ideas, and AI that can grow.

OUR GOAL

Standardized Foundation. Decentralized Innovation.

The goal is not centralized innovation. The enterprise sets the foundation once, and every plant builds on it.

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ENTERPRISE RESPONSIBILITY

Define the shared foundation

Define and ratify a common foundation once: smart information models, smart platforms, smart interfaces through i3X™, cybersecurity and governance, and lifecycle expectations. Then empower plants to innovate aggressively within it.

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PLANT RESPONSIBILITY

Innovate within it

Solve real operational problems quickly, creating or buying applications that are enterprise-ready by design. Build once, then reuse across lines, plants, and conformant platforms.

THE SHARED FOUNDATION

Smart Information Models Smart Platforms Smart Interfaces: i3X™ Cybersecurity & Governance Lifecycle Expectations

WHAT IT ENABLES

What the Imperatives Make Possible

One interoperable information foundation supports the first use case and every one that follows.

1

The first use case builds the foundation

Start with one business need. Quality, energy, and maintenance apps reuse the same models and platform.

2

Existing systems become accessible

Historians, SCADA, and MES can expose contextual information through i3X™, preserving existing investments.

3

Future apps share one platform

New operations, quality, energy, and AI applications build on the same information foundation.

4

Apps and platforms evolve independently

A conformant app can work with any compatible conformant platform, so app choice and platform choice stay open.

Build on an Interoperable Foundation

Join the manufacturers, technology providers, and integrators working with CESMII to make Smart Manufacturing simpler, faster, and reusable by design.

TESTIMONIALS

Read what our amazing past clients say about us

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“This consulting firm helped us to increase our overall sales by 76% in just 3 months”

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FOR ALL USE CASES

Our consulting offerings are tailor made for companies sizes

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