ARC Europe Viewpoints
Jun
23
2026
23
2026
Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership
Hitachi and OpenAI Expand AI Work for Legacy System Modernization and Cybersecurity
Hitachi plans to work with OpenAI’s FDE teams and cybersecurity models to support legacy system modernization, strengthen defensive cyber capabilities, and enhance HMAX.
Jun
23
2026
23
2026
Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership
Hitachi Energy to Acquire Canduct to Expand Transformer Component Capacity in North America
Hitachi Energy has signed an agreement to acquire Canduct Group, a Canadian manufacturer of transformer insulation kits and components, to strengthen transformer supply chain capacity in North America.
Jun
23
2026
23
2026
Craig Resnick — Company and Product News
Rockwell Automation Launches FactoryTalk Orchestration for Production Logistics
Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk Orchestration software connects automated equipment with enterprise and plant systems to help manufacturers coordinate production logistics using real-time production signals.
Jun
23
2026
23
2026
Chantal Polsonetti — Company and Product News
IO-Link Releases Machine-Readable Spec for JSON
IO-Link Community’s updated JSON Integration specification adds IO-Link Wireless support, expanded MQTT functionality, and OpenAPI/AsyncAPI descriptions for automated software generation and standardized field data access.
Jun
23
2026
23
2026
Bob Gill — Podcasts/Videos
Dr. Thai Lai Pham: Leading Siemens in Southeast Asia
In this ARC Executive Interview Podcast, Dr. Thai Lai Pham discusses Siemens’ Southeast Asia strategy, including Vietnam’s industrial growth, AI-enabled automation, data center investment, and sustainability priorities.
Jun
23
2026
23
2026
— Industry Trends
Beyond “What is AI?”
AI is no longer just a tool for answering prompts. Increasingly, it is part of decision-making flows, customer experiences, software systems, and workplace habits. As organizations and individuals adopt more capable systems, the focus must move from novelty to impact, from capability to consequence, and from experimentation to responsibility.
Jun
23
2026
23
2026
Craig Resnick — Company and Product News
Rockwell Automation Introduces FactoryTalk ResilientEdge for Edge-to-Cloud Manufacturing Execution
Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk ResilientEdge is designed to help manufacturers support resilient, scalable, and AI-ready operations across machines, people, and production systems.
Jun
23
2026
23
2026
Larry O'Brien — Acquisition or Partnership
Accenture Takes a Majority Stake in Dragos, Acquires Other Providers for End-to-End OT Cyber Capabilities
Accenture’s majority stake in Dragos, along with its acquisitions of runZero and NetRise, reflects growing demand for integrated OT cybersecurity capabilities across industrial and critical infrastructure environments.
Jun
22
2026
22
2026
Colin Masson — Technology Trends
Oslo, Uncarpeted: Escaping the Desk for a Cyber-Physical Reality Check
At Cognite Impact 2026 Oslo, Cognite and its partners highlighted the role of industrial knowledge graphs, semantic data models, and human-led AI workflows in bridging operations and supply chain execution.
Jun
22
2026
22
2026
Larry O'Brien — Technology Trends
Honeywell Outlines its AI-Driven Path to Autonomous Operations at the 2026 HUG Conference
Honeywell used the 2026 HUG Conference to showcase Experion Cognition and its work with Borouge, demonstrating how AI-enabled autonomous operations can improve efficiency, reliability, safety, and operator decision support.