SMLC | Smart Manufacturing Leadership Consortium – Smart Manufacturing Leadership Consortium

Accelerating the digital transformation of manufacturers and their supply chains

We are an industry-led non-profit organization where members identify challenges to adoption of Smart Technologies and 4th Industrial Revolution digital technologies and work collaboratively to solve them. Our program promotes collaborative, quality relationships to help each other along and benefit from sharing successes and challenges.

Member-driven Focus Areas

Alignment

Advancing and aligning business-driven expectations for a fully digitally transformed manufacturing industry.

Operations

Focusing on integration of digitally transformative technologies to improve manufacturing operations and supply chain.

Ultra Responsive

Addressing prevalent pain points rapidly through trusted collaboration within and between organizations.

Drive Change

Sharing pathways to drive organizational change; provide collective manufacturer voice to influence the status quo in standards and vendor solutions.

What We Offer

Opportunities/Solutions

Working groups: share best practices, create breakthrough pathways
Projects: rapidly collaborate with trusted partners

Networking

Monthly on-line meetings: member-driven topics; help-needed/help-help offered board
Quarterly face-to-face meetings and an annual meeting

Influence

Representation to standards bodies for requirements
Group requests to vendors improving business models and practices, and product performance

Workforce Development

Development Tool Recommendation Board
Instruction through one of our program partners

Assistance

Our “Guru” program has industry experts that will point you in the right direction.
Industry guidebooks available to members.

Publications

Weekly AMI Manufacturing News Consolidator highlights the weeks industry news in an easy-to-read format.
Members may submit publications for circulation.