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Supplier Positioning MarketMap

September 20, 2026 BY Janice Abel

Manufacturing Execution Systems in Pharmaceutical & Biotech Industries

Selecting a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for pharmaceutical and biotech operations requires balancing regulatory compliance, operational performance, scalability, and long-term digital transformation goals.

Autonomous Execution Agents

Autonomous Exception Management in Logistics Execution

Enterprise Asset Management

Market Intelligence Highlights

August 21, 2026 BY Jim Frazer

Engineering Design Tools for Plants, Infrastructure, and Building Information Modeling

The Engineering Design Tools (EDT) and BIM market continues to evolve as organizations accelerate digital transformation across the architecture, engineering, and infrastructure sectors.

Alarm Management

Pressure Transmitters

Asset Reliability Software & Services

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Velotic Advances ThingWorx with New Agentic AI Capabilities

Velotic has added AI Assistant, MCP Server, and AI & Agent Services capabilities to ThingWorx 10.2 to connect industrial data, operational context, applications, and enterprise AI.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Inductive Automation: Ignition 2027 Adds AI, Historian, and Connectivity Capabilities

Ignition 2027 is expected to add an AI framework, new operational historian options based on TimescaleDB, and direct connectivity to Beckhoff TwinCAT controllers.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Weidmuller USA Brings CUBESERIES Relay Kitting to Richmond

Weidmuller USA has begun assembling CUBESERIES relay kits in Richmond to support local availability for control panel, machinery, and automation applications.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Schneider Electric Launches WCDU for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling

Schneider Electric has introduced prefabricated power modules and skids with up to 2.5 MW of capacity for AI, high-performance computing, and GPU-intensive data center deployments.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Schneider Electric Expands AI-Ready Infrastructure Portfolio with Prefabricated Power Modules

Schneider Electric introduced standardized Prefabricated Power Modules and Power Skids designed to support high-density AI, HPC, hyperscale, neocloud, and colocation data center environments.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Inductive Automation: Ignition 2027 Adds AI, Historian, and Connectivity Capabilities

Ignition 2027 is expected to add an AI framework, new operational historian options based on TimescaleDB, and direct connectivity to Beckhoff TwinCAT controllers.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Weidmuller USA Brings CUBESERIES Relay Kitting to Richmond

Weidmuller USA has begun assembling CUBESERIES relay kits in Richmond to support local availability for control panel, machinery, and automation applications.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Schneider Electric Launches WCDU for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling

Schneider Electric has introduced prefabricated power modules and skids with up to 2.5 MW of capacity for AI, high-performance computing, and GPU-intensive data center deployments.

Sep
27
2026

Larry O'Brien — Industry Trends

Honeywell Benchmark Report Finds Critical Gaps in OT Cybersecurity Visibility

Honeywell’s benchmark report finds that incomplete asset visibility, legacy infrastructure, and limited recovery readiness continue to constrain OT cybersecurity maturity.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Schneider Electric Expands AI-Ready Infrastructure Portfolio with Prefabricated Power Modules

Schneider Electric introduced standardized Prefabricated Power Modules and Power Skids designed to support high-density AI, HPC, hyperscale, neocloud, and colocation data center environments.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Velotic Advances ThingWorx with New Agentic AI Capabilities

Velotic has added AI Assistant, MCP Server, and AI & Agent Services capabilities to ThingWorx 10.2 to connect industrial data, operational context, applications, and enterprise AI.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Inductive Automation: Ignition 2027 Adds AI, Historian, and Connectivity Capabilities

Ignition 2027 is expected to add an AI framework, new operational historian options based on TimescaleDB, and direct connectivity to Beckhoff TwinCAT controllers.

Sep
27
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Schneider Electric Launches WCDU for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling

Schneider Electric has introduced prefabricated power modules and skids with up to 2.5 MW of capacity for AI, high-performance computing, and GPU-intensive data center deployments.

Sep
25
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Bounding the Brain—The 4 Levels of Industrial Autonomy and Why Domain Expertise Reigns Supreme

Industrial AI requires deterministic runtime controls, clear autonomy limits, and domain expertise before autonomous agents can safely act across physical and enterprise operations.

Sep
25
2026

Mark Sen Gupta — Industry Trends

Why Operators Distrust Automation

Plants can build justified reliance on automation by treating operator distrust as evidence for better design, validation, training, and operating controls.

Sep
27
2026

Larry O'Brien — Industry Trends

Honeywell Benchmark Report Finds Critical Gaps in OT Cybersecurity Visibility

Honeywell’s benchmark report finds that incomplete asset visibility, legacy infrastructure, and limited recovery readiness continue to constrain OT cybersecurity maturity.

Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

Bounded authority and independent OT safeguards help organizations use AI without surrendering control of physical operations.

Sep
25
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Trends

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

New trials show how OpenRoaming and FDO can support secure, zero-touch onboarding and redeployment of IoT and edge devices.

Sep
23
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Best Practice

US NIST Requests Comments on Expanded Draft Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security

NIST has released an expanded draft of SP 800-82r4 and is seeking public comments on updated guidance for managing cybersecurity risks across operational technology systems.

Sep
22
2026

Larry O'Brien — Technology Trends

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Jan brings more than 20 years of experience across discrete and process manufacturing, as well as supply chain. His background includes roles as both a consultant and analyst, with a focus on digital transformation, smart manufacturing, maintenance strategies, engineering, and quality management.

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Industrial Information Layer for Software-Defined Automation

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From Visibility to Predictability: MES on the Ground

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Supplier Positioning MarketMap

Manufacturing Execution Systems in Pharmaceutical & Biotech Industries

Market Intelligence Highlights

Engineering Design Tools for Plants, Infrastructure, and Building Information Modeling

Viewpoints

Velotic Advances ThingWorx with New Agentic AI Capabilities

Inductive Automation: Ignition 2027 Adds AI, Historian, and Connectivity Capabilities

Weidmuller USA Brings CUBESERIES Relay Kitting to Richmond

Schneider Electric Launches WCDU for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling

Schneider Electric Expands AI-Ready Infrastructure Portfolio with Prefabricated Power Modules

Inductive Automation: Ignition 2027 Adds AI, Historian, and Connectivity Capabilities

Weidmuller USA Brings CUBESERIES Relay Kitting to Richmond

Schneider Electric Launches WCDU for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling

Honeywell Benchmark Report Finds Critical Gaps in OT Cybersecurity Visibility

Schneider Electric Expands AI-Ready Infrastructure Portfolio with Prefabricated Power Modules

Velotic Advances ThingWorx with New Agentic AI Capabilities

Inductive Automation: Ignition 2027 Adds AI, Historian, and Connectivity Capabilities

Schneider Electric Launches WCDU for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling

Bounding the Brain—The 4 Levels of Industrial Autonomy and Why Domain Expertise Reigns Supreme

Why Operators Distrust Automation

Honeywell Benchmark Report Finds Critical Gaps in OT Cybersecurity Visibility

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

US NIST Requests Comments on Expanded Draft Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security

Palo Alto Networks’ Growth Highlights the Shift Toward Unified Industrial Cybersecurity

Logistics Viewpoints

Why TMS Implementations Break Down—and What High-Performance Deployments Get Right

The TMS Is Expanding Into the Operating System for Transportation

e2open Keeps Multi-Enterprise Orchestration at the Center

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