The current projects are in outline phase and seeking partners. Members who are interested in these projects or want to propose a project may contact the Managing Director.
Project Title: “Implementation of a Low-Cost IoT Gateway for Supply Chain Visibility”
- Reference Number: 100221A
- Acronym (if any): D-Supply
- Theme/topic: Supply Chain Management
Proposal Summary
SMLC is seeking partners to demonstrate AMI’s LIMS IoT gateway platform as a means to improve supply chain visibility and resiliency. The low cost IoT device combined with cloud services provides a cost-effective way for large and small manufacturers to share critical data in a secure fashion. For manufacturers with high security sensitivity, there is an option to test and demonstrate a StrongKey physical security device that provides additional data encryption and tokenization capability, similar to that available to financial transactions.
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- Partners needed: Companies in a supply chain or institutions that may simulate a supply chain.
- Funding source: Partial funding from AMI is available. Participant in-kind required.
Project Title: “Robotic Process Automation for Operational Improvement”
- Reference Number: 100221A
- Acronym: RPA
- Theme/topic: Back Office Productivity
Proposal Summary
The use of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to increase the productivity and quality of back-office operations is becoming increasingly popular. We are looking for partners willing to test RPA in their back- office operations help the SMLC community develop a set of best practices related to RPA deployment.
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- Partners needed: Companies in a supply chain or institutions that may simulate a supply chain.
- Funding source: Partial funding from AMI is available. Participant in-kind required.
Project Title: Smart Manufacturing “Utility” Resource Platform
- Reference Number: TBD
- Acronym: SMURP
Proposal Summary
There is a need for regional manufacturing revitalization initiatives to offer a shared community smart manufacturing collaboration resource as an “Utility” for small manufacturers individually and as an enabler for large manufacturer supply chain manufacturer participants. In addition, senior manufacturing executives would be coached with best practices and path forward. The proposed collaborative Trusted Smart Manufacturing (TSM) cloud as a regional “Utility” would host smart manufacturing applications integrated with edge devices such as AMI’s LIMS or Microsoft edge devices all easily accessible over a secure easy to use desktop interface
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- Partners needed: Core group (NXGENGroup, Nimbis, Regional Partner, and early regional manufacturing adopters
- Funding source: Multiple sources (AMI funding is available, Regional Partner and Participant in-kind)