John Dyck

Chief Executive Officer CESMII

Deep Dive Focus Day - February 2, 2027

8:30 AM Masterclass A: Developing a Smart Manufacturing Roadmap That Delivers Business Value

Despite significant investment in digital technologies, many manufacturers continue to struggle to realize the full value of Smart Manufacturing initiatives. Recent analysis from CESMII of more than 1,900 assessments across 160+ manufacturers found that vision, strategy, and organizational alignment remain the biggest barriers to success, not technology. Organizations that fail to connect business objectives, operational priorities, workforce readiness, and technology investments often struggle to achieve sustainable results. This masterclass explores how manufacturers can develop a practical roadmap that turns digital ambition into measurable business value.

This interactive masterclass, led by CESMII, The Smart Manufacturing Institute, explores the frameworks, methodologies, and foundational capabilities required to successfully develop and execute a Smart Manufacturing strategy. Through practical guidance, peer discussion, and collaborative exercises, attendees will learn how to move beyond disconnected digital initiatives and create a structured approach to transformation that delivers measurable business value.

Attendees will learn how to:

Assess their organization's current Smart Manufacturing maturity and readiness
Identify the business drivers and operational challenges that should shape transformation priorities
Align business strategy, people, processes, and technology investments around shared objectives
Apply the CESMII Assess → Focus → Roadmap framework to create a structured transformation plan
Prioritize initiatives based on business impact, feasibility, and organizational readiness
Leverage interoperable information platforms to improve data accessibility and decision-making
Integrate Lean principles with digital capabilities to drive continuous improvement
Avoid common transformation pitfalls that prevent organizations from achieving measurable value
Define a future-state vision supported by clear objectives, milestones, and success metrics
Develop a practical roadmap that can be used to guide Smart Manufacturing initiatives across the enterprise

CWMH Summit Day One

8:15 AM Opening Keynote Panel: Building the Interoperable Manufacturing Enterprise: Connected Workers and Connected Systems

Manufacturers have invested billions connecting machines, systems, applications – and workers. Yet much of the information required to make better decisions remains fragmented across proprietary platforms, applications, and organizational silos. The result is an enormous "integration tax": excessive cost and complexity, slow innovation, solutions that do not scale across plants, and operational data that remains extraordinarily difficult to contextualize and put to work – by people or AI.

In this opening keynote panel, John Dyck, Chief Executive Officer of CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute, and manufacturing leaders will challenge the industry to move beyond simply connecting more things toward creating a genuinely interoperable manufacturing environment.

Make interoperability an enterprise business requirement, reducing the cost and complexity of integration while eliminating dependence on proprietary data silos
Create an AI-ready operational foundation where trusted manufacturing context and knowledge are available to both workers and AI agents
Move from connected data to contextualized, interoperable information that can be understood and used across machines, systems, applications, people, and AI
Enable "Governed Freedom" – standardizing the architectural foundation while giving plants and frontline teams greater freedom to innovate
Turn plant innovation into enterprise capability, allowing successful solutions to be reused and scaled across lines, plants, and the manufacturing network

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining John.

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