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CWRU’s Nick Barendt discusses the opening of the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center

Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center opens at CWRU

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Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Nick Barendt, executive director of the Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems, discussed the opening of the Smart Manufacturing Innovation Center—part of a small group of such centers across the nation—to help smaller companies adopt smart manufacturing technologies that use the internet to monitor production, automate operations and analyze data.