The November 2021 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business reports Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in November, with the overall economy achieving an 18th consecutive month of growth,

Stratus Technologies announced the general availability and shipping of its 2nd Generation ztC Edge Platforms, Stratus ztC Edge 200i and 250i

Stratasys Ltd. introduces a new software module, Digital Anatomy Creator, that allows users to easily manipulate material formations and customize the internal structures of their prints to achieve patient-specific 3D printed anatomic models

The 2022 ARC Smart City and Energy Forum is approaching (Feb. 14-17), and once again we will be doing a session on drones. In this session from the 2021 Forum, we examined drone deliveries of vaccines, blood, and other medical treatments and equipment.

AWS IoT RoboRunner is a new robotics service that makes it easier for enterprises to build and deploy applications that help fleets of robots work together seamlessly.

Compressor Controls LLC (CCC) and Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that they have concluded a commercial agreement for the sale of a jointly developed solution, CCC Inside for Yokogawa CENTUM VP, that integrates Process and turbomachinery control

ABB has launched ABB Ability Smart Melt Shop, reportedly the first smart factory digital application of its kind for the metals industry. It is designed to increase melt shop productivity, save energy, and improve employee safety, with payback within six months.

The next European Forum, May 17 - 18, 2022, will focus on “Accelerating Industrial Digital Transformation and Sustainability”. As part of the “Automation Innovation” track, we will take a closer look at Future Automation Architectures.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) announced that they have developed an AI technology that predicts changes during automated manufacturing processes and then makes real-time adjustments

AVEVA launched Vision AI Assistant 2021, its new image classification-based analytics tool. This artificial intelligence (AI) solution helps enable its customers to use video and images from existing general-purpose cameras and convert them into user-friendly information and timely alerts.

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

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.

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

The 2022 ARC Smart City and Energy Forum is coming soon, from Feb 14-17 in Orlando. Once again we will be discussing key smart city technology offerings that improve health, safety, and the environment, as well as providing the basis of a resilience strategy to better deal with COVID-19 and other unexpected events.