About the ADEPT Plug-and-Play Industrial Computing and Connectivity Software Platform
ADEPT is an industrial computing and connectivity software platform built around the concept of time-deterministic “data frameworks” executing on industrial real-time Linux servers and operating as a single, coherent distributed resource controlled and managed via intuitive, drag-and-drop desktop tools.  ADEPT is used in the largest, most demanding industrial computing and connectivity applications across the global aerospace and defense industry, but also scales down to work with low-cost computing hardware and open-source real-time Linux. The open architecture nature of ADEPT allows users to leverage best-in-class COTS and open-source technologies in a common, project-based environment.  ADEPT dramatically reduces the cost and time to deploy and operate industrial IoT and open process automation capability, providing comprehensive out-of-the-box capability built on a trusted technology platform.
ADI’s ADEPT software platform can support advanced open real-time and virtual computing applications that require NIST 800-171 and CIS Security Level 2 compliance. 
About Applied Dynamics
Applied Dynamics is a digital engineering and industrial digital transformation solutions company. We have been pushing the limits of simulation and real-time systems for over 60 years. Applied Dynamics flagship product, ADEPT, is the most advanced real-time, industrial Internet of Things (IoT) software platform of its kind, providing an agile, open architecture, feature-rich environment for the complete product lifecycle from development through integration, verification, validation, certification, deployment, and sustainment. ADEPT embraces an open architecture and allows its users to leverage best-in-class COTS components. The ADEPT user base includes 14 of the global top 35 A&D companies and extends into marine, power systems, oil & gas, and the automotive industry.
To learn more about how ADI and the ADEPT platform can help your team, visit www.adi.com or send an email to adinfo@adi.com.
About MxD
MxD, the nation’s Digital Manufacturing Institute and the National Center for Cybersecurity in Manufacturing, is where innovative manufacturers go to forge their futures. In partnership with the Department of Defense, MxD equips U.S. factories with the digital tools, cybersecurity, and workforce expertise they need to begin building every part better than the last. As a result, our approximately 300 partners increase their productivity, win more business, and strengthen U.S. manufacturing. Learn more at mxdusa.org, and contact us about projects at projects@mxdusa.org.
About the SMARTLab located at the Ford Robotics Building led by Profs. Kira Barton and Dawn Tilbury
A new industrial system-level manufacturing testbed has been launched within the Manufacturing Robotics SMARTLab in the new Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. This cyber-physical manufacturing systems testbed, called SMART 4.0, incorporates manufacturing processes and automated material handling, to enable flexibility and reconfigurability. The state-of-the-art control system in the testbed connects the different hardware elements and enables human interactions. The SMART 4.0 testbed incorporates a number of the latest technologies for the purpose of developing and researching intelligent solutions, such as digital twins, for a manufacturing system. Those requirements include additive and subtractive manufacturing in one integrated testbed, flexibility and reconfigurability, ability to transition between centralized and distributed system control, wireless communication for cameras and mobile robots, robot-to-robot part transfer, human-to-robot direct interaction, integrated methods for enhanced cybersecurity, platform flexibility to accommodate 3rd party software, and VR modeling of the complete testbed. SMART 4.0 uses the ADEPT framework with real time data collection capability. ADEPT’s open architecture, data-centric, and highly extensible real-time Linux computing paradigm provides a versatile and dynamic platform for SMART 4.0.

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