Siemens Limited has completed a previously announced acquisition of India’s C&S Electric’s low voltage switchgear and busbar businesses for $285 million (Rs. 21 billion). 

Schlumberger New Energy, Chevron Corporation, Microsoft and Clean Energy Systems announced  plans to develop a bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) project designed to produce Carbon Negative Bioenergy in Mendota, California.

Our recent meeting to record this ARC Digital Transformation Viewpoints Podcast on Digitalizing Industries in Southeast Asia reflected in many ways the transition of automation to digitalization, as we discussed things almost completely unknown in 2010

NXP Releases Industrial Automation Real-Time Network Support

NXP announced its integrated Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) solutions for industrial automation that now support the CC-Link IE TS

Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the acquisition of E7 Pty Ltd, a Brisbane, Australia-based supplier in field-based Civil Construction Software

Baker Hughes and Akastor ASA have agreed to create a 50/50 joint venture company that is expected to deliver a global full-service offshore drilling equipment offering.

Mapped, a data infrastructure for IoT company, has launched an AI-powered data infrastructure platform designed to help change how data discovery, extraction, mapping, and enrichment is done in commercial and industrial IoT environments.

IOTech announced the launch and availability of Edge XRT, its time-critical edge platform for Microsoft Azure Sphere.

The Manufacturing ISM Report On Business for Feb 2021 reports economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in February, with the overall economy notching a ninth consecutive month of growth

Microsoft announced its dedicated Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing, one of several industry-specific offerings introduced by the company. 

Manufacturers seeking to leverage new digital technologies to transform their businesses can turn to Emerson’s new Digital Maturity Quick Index to self-assess their operations and identify opportunities that deliver the highest potential return on investment.  

ZEDEDA announced an integration with Microsoft Azure IoT services that provides customers with full lifecycle management capabilities (edge hardware, OS, Azure IoT Edge Runtime, Azure IoT Edge modules and additional apps),

While “The Future Electric Grid” online session was in progress at the 2021 ARC Industry Forum, Texas was being plunged into outages caused by unusually cold conditions and heavy snow. With this catastrophe fresh in mind, this is a good time to review some of the politics, economics, and technology driving the future electric grid in Texas and elsewhere.

The European Commission adopted a legislative proposal for a strategic European partnership on Smart Networks and Services as a Joint Undertaking, with a public research and innovation (R&I) investment of €900 million

Hitachi ABB Power Grids announced the launch of its Smart Digital Substation offering, which brings together the latest in digital substation technology with the unique predictive, prescriptive and prognostic capabilities of Hitachi’s Lumada Asset Performance Management (APM) solution.