9:30-10:00 Arrival and Coffee

10:00-10:10 Welcome

• Paul Mitchell President and CEO of ESN
• Dan Sloan Director of Industry and Workforce Partnerships, ToolingU SME

10:10-10:30 Keynote Address: Strengthening Your Competitiveness Through Smart Manufacturing

A practical look at the strategies and recommendations that is helping manufacturers across the country dramatically improve their throughput, productivity and quality.

Speaker: John Dyck, CEO CESMII

10:30-11:10 Manufacturer Panel

Manufacturers will talk honestly about their own smart manufacturing journey, where they found help and where they hit roadblocks along the way. Each will share what they will be tackling next. 

Moderator: John Dyk, CEO CESMII

• Rob King, Batesville Casket
• Caleb Mandile, S.U.S. Cast Products
• Marvin Major, Trane Technologies
• John Piller

11:10-11:30 Resources Available for manufacturers:

Program managers will have a rapid-fire session where they will share quick overviews of various programs and products available to manufacturers and how they might fit together.

• CONEXUS: Mitch Landess, Vice President of Innovation and Digital Transformation
• Analytix IN, Darshan Shah
• State and Federal Grant Incentives, Chris Smith, Source Advisors
• Energy INSights – Follow on Grant Opportunities, Becca Gillespie ESN

11:30-1:00 Lunch, Networking and Technology “Petting Zoo”

Programs, vendors, integrators, and others in the ecosystem will have tables and demos set up for this mini-expo. Lunch will be served.

1:00-1:45  Breakout sessions:

• Session a: Understanding the Digital Transformation, including the puzzle pieces needed to make it work and the way to tie the many sources of information together to achieve value.
  • Bryan Rushton, LHP
  • Patrick Gaughan, Axiom
  • Rob McConnell, Blue Ridge
• Session b: Workforce development, hiring and upskilling your workforce to be able to achieve your smart manufacturing goals. 

Moderator: Ginger Lippert, VP of Talent, Strategy, and Engagement for TechPoint

• • Dan Sloan, Tooling U SME
  • Allegion
  • IonThree
  • Cummins
• Session c: CESMII Smart Manufacturing Interoperability Platform Demonstrations: Showing seamless integration from manufacturing floor to cloud infrastructure with minimal human touches required
  • John Louka, Solutions Architect

2:00 – 3:30 Breakout sessions:

• Session a: Smart Manufacturing in Action – Real examples of Small and Medium Manufacturers adopting CESMII Starter Kits and Roadmap.
  • Rob Schoenthaler, CESMII SMIC Director
  • Sudhi Bangalore, FullBore CEO

• Session b: Manufuture Today Cohort Kickoff – ManuFuture Today is a peer-to-peer network helping manufacturers accelerate innovation and business performance through trusted learning networks and digital adoption. In this workshop, we will demonstrate how to quickly identify opportunities that efficiently leverage network assets to tackle challenges.
  • Brad Beach, Purdue University Director of Manufuture Today
• Session c: This is especially aimed at Energy INsights participants looking to complete their hands-on training requirements, but all interested parties are welcome.  We will setup two Opto-22 devices, and practice configuring them. We will explore the backend of an Ignition server sandbox environment and make some dummy dashboards.  Bring your own laptop and ethernet cable to fully participate. 
  • Becca Gillespie, Energy Systems Network Managing Director
  • Gary Schloemer, Energy Systems Network Technical Lead

3:30-3:45 Closing Remarks: How do you jumpstart your next steps along this journey?

3:45-4:30 Networking