Northwest Analytics recently announced the launch of the NWA Analytics Knowledge Suite™ to empower manufacturers to address some of its most critical challenges and accelerate digital transformation by fully leveraging their institutional knowledge.

Red Lion Controls, an operating company of UK-based Spectris plc, announced the acquisition of MB connect line GmbH, a provider of solutions that enable secure connection of machines and plants for remote access, data collection, and M2M-communication.

The tank terminal site in Duisburg, Germany, holds a special position in the network of the operator TanQuid. The headquarter site is defined by the complexity of its facilities and processes to offer a diversity of the services, to meet the demands its clientele from different industries.

ARC has been tracking how Innovation Drives Digital Transformation and the digital transformation initiatives of companies by conducting surveys and analyses for the last 5-7 years. All this information has been collated and the Top 25 global industrial digital transformation leaders, across multiple industries and geographies, have been identified. 

Siemens Gamesa has started manufacturing of both its patented offshore Direct Drive wind turbine nacelles and patented IntegralBlades at its new manufacturing facility in Le Havre, France. A dedicated installation hub is also under finalization on the same plot, allowing direct load out of wind turbine components to French offshore wind power plants

Rockwell Automation announced the release of its FactoryTalk View Site Edition (SE) V13 HMI Software, which is Lowered-Cost HMI Software and provides more options for what data is displayed and how it is presented to operators.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that on April 28 it will launch the "MELSOFT Gemini" 3D simulator, which will expedite the design and construction of production facilities by using digital space to simulate and verify envisioned production operations in a 3-dimentional environment.

It has been announced that Pharmira Co., Ltd. commenced development of a technology for Continuous Manufacturing (CM) of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates and a contract development and manufacturing business using CM technology.

Rockwell Automation released its new PanelView Plus 7 Series B graphics terminal, which features a significant number of improvements versus the preceding Series A graphics terminal that ran on the Windows CE 6.0