Smart Manufacturing Mindset™

About Smart Manufacturing Mindset™

Smart Manufacturing Mindset™, presented by CESMII - The Smart Manufacturing Institute & SME, is a monthly webinar where we challenge guests to think differently about manufacturing. We'll explore the nuances that hide in plain sight – behind the acronyms, techno-jargon and misinformation – to get to the truths that hold real value for real people in the industry. In partnership with the Department of Energy, CESMII was established as a primary advocate and resource for Smart Manufacturing, including networking, education and workforce development, funded research projects and a Smart Manufacturing Innovation Platform to enable your digital transformation.

Publisher

CESMII - The Smart Manufacturing Institute

Category

business · government · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Apr 2023

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 25 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: When Two Paths Converge: UNS, i3X, and the Future of Manufacturing

   Host Jeff Winter interviews John Dyck, Jonathan Wise, and Walker Reynolds about how Unified Namespace and i3X converge to create interoperable, AI-ready manufacturing.

2. 

   23 Jun 2026

   Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: Why the Smartest Investment in AI Might Be a SM Roadmap Certification

   While vendors promise transformation and headlines declare a revolution, walk into most plants today and the story looks a lot different. In this episode of the Smart Manufacturing Mindset, Jeff Winter sits down with three people who have seen this gap up close and have been working to close it: Suraj Sriram, Digital Manufacturing Leader at Kimberly-Clark, and Jim Wetzel and Tim Stuart, the architects and instructors behind CESMII's Certified Smart Manufacturing Roadmap Professional program....

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   31 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   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 memb...

Inside a recent episode

Smart Manufacturing Mindset™: When Two Paths Converge: UNS, i3X, and the Future of Manufacturing

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] This is true smart manufacturing when you can allow corporate to do what they need to do and really empower innovation in the plants at scale for the first time. So this is a really, really big deal. I think this entire movement and what it's driving and how we're converging here is gonna be manifested or is manifesting value creation through This idea that corporate can do what corporate does best, bring the sustainability and the standardization in a way that the OT community and the plants can actually absorb it, benefit from it, and use it to innovate in ways they never had before. John, I want to follow up on one thing because I'm like the third party here. […]

Who has been a guest on Smart Manufacturing Mindset™

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• John Dyck
• Jonathan Wise
• Walker Reynolds
• Courtney Andersen
• Jim Beilstein

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 19 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

14

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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