The Founders' Association of the Council for New Industry Creation through Quantum Technology was formed on May 31, 2021, and the association formally established the council under a new name, the Quantum Strategic Industry Alliance for Revolution: Q-STAR.

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector grew in August, with the overall economy notching a 15th consecutive month of growth, say the nation's supply executives in the August 2021 Manufacturing ISM Report On Business.

AVEVA announced that it will be making its Operations Control software solutions available as a single subscription for the first time.

Stratus Technologies announced the 2nd generation of its ztC Edge platform, the Zero-touch Edge Computing platform that combines built-in application virtualization and fault tolerance in a more easy-to-install, ruggedized design for the industrial edge.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has developed the OpreX Multi-Sensing Remote I/O as an addition to its OpreX Components lineup.

Anindya Chatterjee, ABB’s Global Head of Value Engineering and Data, provided a presentation that helped with Understanding Asset Reliability, as he primarily focused on return on asset (ROA) reliability through information (IT), operations (OT), and engineering technologies (ET) powered by machine learning (ML).

AT&T and Cisco have introduced 5G service for IoT applications across the US.  The AT&T 5G network is now ready to deliver lower latency and faster speeds for enterprise customer IoT deployments using 5G certified devices.

In this podcast, Friedhelm Best spends some time discussing the link between digitalization and smart process safety, and explaining why, in the era of Industry 4.0, safety systems need to be just as smart as production processes.

AVEVA works with its customers to harness the power of its ecosystem to deliver solutions and expertise to optimize engineering, operations, and performance across industries, including Operational Excellence for Power Generation

PROFINET International (PI) has announced the second maintenance update of the PROFINET V2.4 specification with current extensions to TSN and security

Boris Marrone, Vice President Sales, Asia Pacific, Head of South Asia & South East Asia, AVEVA, spoke about the company’s digital transformation journey and how Performance Intelligence is helping to shape a sustainable future.

AVEVA’s Sebastien Ory, Vice President, APAC Operations Business, spoke about accelerating operational efficiency and agility in manufacturing, specifically the food and beverage industry

In Europe, the catastrophic accident in the Italian town of Seveso in1976 prompted the adoption of legislation on the prevention and control of such accidents, thus leading to Cost-Effective Disaster Risk Reduction in the Chemical Industry

Siemens Limited and Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power-DDL) jointly announced the successful deployment of Smart Metering Technology for over 200,000 Smart Meters in North Delhi.

GE Digital has released new upgrades to its on-premise industrial analytics software, Proficy CSense.