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NEMA’s 2025 Guide to the Electroindustry

William Attardi on December 11, 2025

NEMA’s 2025 Guide to the Electroindustry provides an in-depth analysis of the electroindustry, underscoring its vital role in the economy, grid reliability, and powering the future. The electroindustry is a powerful force. We contribute a full 1% of U.S. GDP and directly provide over 580,000 American jobs.  NEMA’s world-class market insights offer a look at the electroindustry’s economic footprint on a state-by-state level, including detailed analyses of local impact and perspectives on the industry’s future.  State and district-level data break down the industry impact at more local levels.   Industry Impact – NEMA

Future-Ready Campuses: From Classroom Wellbeing to Climate Resilience

William Attardi on December 9, 2025

A field guide to classrooms and campuses that perform: sound control, visual comfort, resilience and compliance, rapid retrofit tactics, and products ready for education projects. From acoustics that improve comprehension to fast-track LED lighting retrofits that cut costs without disruption, today’s education projects demand solutions that elevate student outcomes and campus resilience. This cross-brand eHandbook curates our best recent coverage from Architectural Products, BUILDINGS, and interiors+sources to help architects, interior designers, and facilities professionals plan, spec, and operate smarter learning spaces across K-12 and higher education. Round out your due diligence with real-world case studies and a curated product guide spanning acoustical ceilings and lighting, writable surfaces, modular tables, power and data, security, flooring, and more—everything needed to turn design intent into measurable performance. Future-Ready Campuses: From Classroom Wellbeing to Climate Resilience | Buildings

Unlocking Smart Efficiency: Your Guide to AI-Ready Buildings

William Attardi on December 5, 2025

Discover how AI can optimize energy, comfort, and operations and how you can lead smarter, more sustainable buildings. Navigate the transition to AI-ready buildings.  This whitepaper sponsored by Schneider Electyric offers insights into energy optimization, alarm management, sustainability reporting, and predictive maintenance.  Gain actionable strategies, real-world case studies, and a clear roadmap to harness AI for smarter, more efficient, and future-proof building operations. Unlocking Smart Efficiency: Your Guide to AI-Ready Buildings | Buildings

XR Training: How Extended Reality Supercharges Brain-Based Learning

William Attardi on November 25, 2025

In today’s fast-paced digital workplace, organizations are searching for more effective ways to skill and reskill their workforces. Extended reality (XR), which encompasses Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Augmented Reality (AR), offers an immersive and highly effective alternative. These XR technologies are not just more engaging—they also work in harmony with how the human brain learns best. Neuroscience shows that experiential learning—learning by doing—activates multiple regions of the brain at once. XR places learners in a simulated environment that mimics real-life scenarios, tapping into the brain’s natural mechanisms for spatial and sensory learning. This immersive context not only minimizes distractions but also enhances focus and recall through contextual cues that the brain retains as lived experiences. XR Training: How Extended Reality Enhances Brain-Based Learning

Unlocking Smart Efficiency: Your Guide to AI-Ready Buildings

William Attardi on November 18, 2025

Discover how AI can optimize energy, comfort, and operations and how you can lead smarter, more sustainable buildings. Navigate the transition to AI-ready buildings.  This whitepaper offers insights into energy optimization, alarm management, sustainability reporting, and predictive maintenance.  Gain actionable strategies, real-world case studies, and a clear roadmap to harness AI for smarter, more efficient, and future-proof building operations.  Unlocking Smart Efficiency: Your Guide to AI-Ready Buildings | Buildings

Final Version of DesignLights Consortium’s New Technical Requirements for LED Lighting Released

William Attardi on November 4, 2025

The SSL V6.0 and LUNA V2.0 Technical Requirements are now combined in a single set of technical requirements and scheduled to take effect in January.

Key updates to SSL V6.0 include:

  • A major revision to the DLC Premium product classification for luminaires with higher efficacy thresholds and more rigorous requirements for controllability, expanding the classification to further enable incentives for advanced controls and integrated building systems.
  • Provisions to drive wider adoption of controls through compatibility-based product selection from the SSL and Networked Lighting Controls (NLC) QPLs.
  • Expanded SSL QPL eligibility to support sustainability, lighting innovation and flexible installation practices.
  • Clear criteria and improved documentation for manufacturers and specifiers.

Overall, the new technical requirements for LED lighting maintain an average increased efficacy threshold across all DLC qualified product types of 14 percent (with some product efficacy increases as high as 19 percent). At the same time, recognizing that efficacy must accompany quality to support long-term energy savings and user satisfaction, SSL V6.0 includes efficacy allowances for products that meet higher quality of light thresholds in terms of features such color rendition and glare control. Full details of SSL V6.0 and LUNA V2.0 are available the DLC’s website 

MIT Sloan Executive Education Programs

William Attardi on November 1, 2025

Our programs offer hands-on learning experiences and cutting-edge research to empower you to tackle today’s challenges and seize tomorrow’s opportunities.

  • Courses for Individuals – MIT Sloan Executive Education courses provide hands-on learning experiences, faculty research, and proven frameworks that have immediate applicability to careers and organizations.
  • Executive Certificates – Pursuing an Executive Certificate enables you to further your business knowledge and skills on a schedule of your own design.
  • Solutions for Organizations – Whether you’re launching a new product, entering a new market, or going global, you need to be absolutely sure your team is ready. That’s why our custom programs are tailored to your organization’s specific challenges and opportunities.

Executive Education Programs | MIT Sloan

Agentic AI Can Transform Manufacturing, Deloitte Report Finds by Cary Gitter

William Attardi on October 16, 2025

Agentic AI refers to autonomous generative AI agents that possess “agency”—the ability to both act and choose actions to take—which enables them to independently complete complex tasks and achieve human-defined objectives with minimal or no supervision. Multiagent systems consist of multiple AI agents completing specific objectives and collaborating to accomplish sophisticated workflows.Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the manufacturing industry in the coming years,  according to a new report released by Deloitte in September. Powered by large language models, autonomous generative-AI agents with the “agency” to work independently alongside people could be used to support multiple aspects of companies’ operations. In general, due to its ability to act autonomously, agentic AI can be an important new tool to help manage the complexity that manufacturers can face throughout the organization. It may also serve as an important building block for the future of automation in the industry, including robotics achieving increasing degrees of agency, or workers having enhanced access to process and equipment trend information on industrial tablets as agentic AI helps to break down data silos. Agentic AI Can Transform Manufacturing, Deloitte Report Says | Manufacturing News Desk | advancedmanufacturing.org

Webinar: AI and Ecommerce: The Future for Electrical Distributors

William Attardi on October 10, 2025

Discover how AI is transforming electrical distribution—from customer insights to ecommerce efficiency—in this exclusive webinar with industry leaders from DDS and ECI.

October 22, 2025 @ 11:00am ET, Duration: 1 hour.  

In this webinar, Matt Christensen, President & Co-founder of DDS, and Chris Fisher, VP of Global Ecommerce at ECI, will share how both organizations are introducing new AI-powered solutions designed to help distributors:

  • Gain actionable insights into customer behavior and buying patterns.
  • Improve and optimize the product content that fuels online sales.
  • Streamline ecommerce management to free up valuable resources.
  • Strengthen digital marketing, SEO, and customer engagement.

REGISTER @ AI and Ecommerce: The Future for Electrical Distributors | Electrical Wholesaling

Embracing Modern Software Development Practices in the AI Era

William Attardi on October 7, 2025

The whitepaper reveals how organizations can transform their software development practices to meet today’s demanding business requirements while ensuring security and quality. Key findings include:

  • 87% of developers using generative AI reported increased focus on meaningful work
  • Organizations face significant challenges in monitoring security across growing attack surfaces
  • Modern software development requires new skills in infrastructure operations (59%), cloud migration (54%), and cybersecurity (52%)

Download to learn:

  • How to implement the four pillars of modern software development.
  • Strategies for successful adoption of modern software practices.
  • Ways to balance innovation with security and governance.
  • Best practices for integrating AI into development processes.

Harvard Business Review Analytic Services – DevOps Whitepaper

The Genesis of the U.S. Space Force – On December 20, 2019, President Donald Trump signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2020, officially creating the United States Space Force, a new and independent branch of the U.S. military. The establishment of the Space Force marked a historic shift in how the U.S. views and manages its military operations in space, reflecting the growing importance of space as both a domain of strategic competition and national security. The Space Force is tasked with ensuring the U.S. maintains its superiority in space, focusing on both the defense of space assets and the development of offensive capabilities. Its mission includes:

  1. Space Operations: Overseeing space-based systems, such as satellites, that provide essential services to the U.S. military, including communication, reconnaissance, and missile defense.
  2. Space Security: Protecting U.S. space infrastructure from threats, including anti-satellite weapons, cyberattacks, and other potential forms of disruption by adversarial nations.
  3. Space Research and Development: Developing and deploying cutting-edge space technologies, including space-based defense systems, that ensure the U.S. maintains an edge in space exploration and military operations.
  4. Supporting National Defense: Integrating space capabilities into broader national defense strategies, ensuring that U.S. forces can operate effectively in space as part of a multi-domain approach to warfare.

The Space Force is designed to streamline and strengthen the U.S. military’s space operations, which were previously under the purview of the U.S. Air Force. By separating space operations into a distinct branch, the government hoped to increase focus on space as a critical area of national defense and enhance the U.S. military’s ability to respond to emerging threats. Source: Day in History