Strategic Initiatives

Internet of Things

• Cybersecurity: This initiative will help prepare NEMA Members and their customers to withstand increasingly numerous and sophisticated cyberattacks by developing cybersecurity best practices and standards, and by advocating for reasonable and flexible government policies and regulations.
• Data Privacy and Ownership: As manufacturers grapple with how to put to use the troves of data generated or collected by electrical and medical imaging technologies, this initiative will help NEMA Members better understand the legal requirements for accessing and utilizing data.
• Smart Manufacturing/Industrial IoT: With the IoT extending into manufacturing and other industrial processes, this initiative will promote smart manufacturing and industrial IoT by advocating for NEMA-supported standards and government policies.
• Webinar Series on IoT Trends: With so many IoT buzzwords out there, this initiative will cut through the hype to provide NEMA Members with the information they need to incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, augmented reality, blockchain, and other IoT elements in their operations, products, and service offerings.

Smart Cities

• Grid Modernization Analysis: Innovative grid technologies have the potential to improve grid reliability and flexibility, but only if they are adopted by utilities and approved by regulators. This initiative will quantify the costs and benefits of modern grid technologies, and the results will be published to justify grid upgrades to utilities and their regulators.
• Energy Efficiency Modeling of Industrial and Building Systems: While NEMA and its Members understand that you can save more energy by focusing on the whole system, rather than just the individual components, computer models do not accurately account for these system benefits. To make customers and regulators more comfortable with the idea of a system-based approach to energy conservation, this initiative will focus on improving and testing energy models for specific applications.

Medical Imaging

• Lung, Breast, and Colorectal Cancer Screening: Catching cancer early can reduce the need for costly and invasive treatment later on. This initiative will seek to prove that screening for lung, breast, and colorectal cancer can achieve early detection and reduce mortality.

Workforce Development

• Educating the Electrical Workforce: To promote the electroindustry as a dynamic, high-skill, high-tech sector with many available career options, and to ensure that students have access to the appropriate curricula and training opportunities, NEMA is continuing and expanding its workforce development initiative.