MESA International and MESA's Smart Manufacturing Working Group released whitepaper "Smart Manufacturing - The Landscape Explained." Paper aims to clarify relationships between multiple new initiatives and terms in the manufacturing IT arena including IIoT, Industrie 4, Digital Thread, and Smart Manufacturing. Whitepaper is just the beginning of a set of blog posts, resources, speaking engagements, and presentations by MESA to teach the world about modern "Manufacturing meets IT" topics.