How to Accelerate the Adoption of Smart Manufacturing

Join John Dyck, CEO of CESMII and Jeff Winter, Industry Executive of Manufacturing at Microsoft, as they discuss opportunities manufacturers & the entire ecosystem have when they make the investment in Smart Manufacturing…

Questions Jeff answers in this episode:

1. Can you share your thoughts on why you think the US has called beyond Europe and Asia for Smart Manufacturing / Industry 4.0?

2. Why do so many projects end up in ‘pilot purgatory’?

3. As companies approach their Industry 4.0 journey, how should they think about it? Where should they start?

4. How to get small, medium manufacturers involved and where should they start?

Link to CESMII’s original podcast page

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Sources Referenced:

• CESMII - 2022 Smart Manufacturing Market Survey: https://www.cesmii.org/smart-manufacturing-sustainability-study/

• World Economic Forum - Readiness for the Future of Production Report 2018: www3.weforum.org/docs/FOP_Readiness_Report_2018.pdf

• Accenture - Digital Density Index - Guiding Digital Transformation 2015: Guiding digital transformation - Digital Density Index - Accenture (readkong.com)

• IoT Analytics - Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing Adoption Report, 2020: https://iot-analytics.com/industry-4-0-adoption-2020-who-is-ahead/#:~:text=Industry%204.0%20technology%20roll%2Dout,Report%2C%20published%20in%20January%202020.

• Microsoft IoT Signals: Manufacturing Spotlight Report 2022: IoT Signals: Manufacturing Spotlight | Microsoft

• International Standards Organization - Joint Working Group 21 - Smart Manufacturing Reference Model(s): https://committee.iso.org/sites/tc184/home/projects/smart-manufacturing.html