Australia’s BHP Group and Woodside Petroleum have signed a binding share sale agreement (SSA) for the merger of BHP’s oil and gas portfolio with Woodside, under which Woodside will acquire the entire share capital of BHP Petroleum in exchange for new Woodside shares.

Edge software provider IOTech announced it is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to offer smart and integrated edge-to-cloud solutions for enterprise companies.

Kontron is expanding its industrial switch product line with high-performance and cost-effective managed 8-port TSN switches. The different versions of the KSwitch D10 MMT will be available in early Q1/2022

The 3rd edition of the IEC 61131-3 standard enables the use of Object Oriented Programming, OOP. With Object Orientation one can make many additional choices in the way the program is structured and decomposed

Rockwell Automation announced that its PanelView 5510 terminals now support up to 500 screens, display video and other content following updates to its Studio 5000 View Designer software.

ABB is entering into a strategic partnership with Swiss-based start-up Sevensense to enhance ABB’s new autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) offering with artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D vision mapping technology.

GE Digital announced Proficy Smart Factory, a manufacturing software suite spanning on-premise, cloud and architecture software that helps get Manufacturing Efficiency Transformed

Red Lion introduced its next generation graphical panel meter, the PM-50, expanding its existing panel meter portfolio. The PM-50 is available as a 3.5-inch or 4.3-inch graphical touchscreen display.

Hitachi Energy launched IdentiQ, its digital twin solutions for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) and power quality solutions.

GE Digital announced its Fuel Insight Benchmarking program designed to help operators better understand how to maximize fuel use and reduce carbon emissions.