Hitachi ABB Power Grids Ltd. and GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions Business announced a non-exclusive, cross-licensing agreement related to the use of an alternative gas to sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) used in high voltage equipment in the electrical transmission industry.

ARC Advisory Group is conducting industrial best practice surveys to help companies determine their best path forward for a multitude of current and emerging technologies and practices.

Having worked with several venture-funded startups over the years, the question of how many go from Series A funding to Series B funding and then onto Series C funding is intriguing.

With the signing of an agreement between Industrial cybersecurity company Claroty and Yokogawa Engineering Asia, Yokogawa customers in Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand can now get access to the Claroty Platform, either as an added product or service or embedded within Yokogawa’s managed security services.

Seeq recently announced a $50 Million Series C round led by Insight Partners – with participation from prior investors Altira Group, Cisco Investments, Chevron Technology Ventures, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, and Siemens/Next47 – is impressive and speaks to their advanced analytics offering. 

With an eye on future mobile communications standards, a European consortium is working on the next generation of antennas for wireless networks.

Rockwell Automation and Comau, an industrial automation and robot manufacturer, announced that they are joining forces to provide factories worldwide with tools to help manufacturers Simplify Robotics Integration

The FIDO Alliance announced the launch of the FIDO Device Onboard (FDO) protocol, a new, open IoT device onboarding standard that reportedly enables devices to simply and securely onboard to cloud and on-premise management platforms.

During the ARC Industry Forum, ARC’s Craig Resnick interviewed Craig Hayman, CEO of AVEVA, and their discussion covered a range of topics, such as how the industry saw the approach to digitalization changed by pandemic

Plattform Industrie 4.0 and CESMII, The Smart Manufacturing Institute, are working together to drive the digital transformation of manufacturing

It is important to have a cost-effective remote asset management solution to collect disparate data and convert it into actionable metrics for faster decisions.

The emerging demand for well-managed grid energy storage will drive Smart Grid innovation with new business models for utilities, energy industry stakeholders, and importantly there will be new business opportunities for utility customers.

EDF, Thales, and Ericsson have partnered on CONNECT, a project to bring Secure Private Mobile Networks to all of EDF’s nuclear energy sites in France.

In a freewheeling interview at the ARC Industry Forum, ARC’s Craig Resnick and John Vicente, CTO at Stratus Technologies, spoke about the value of edge computing and system orchestration in digital transformation.

LTTS (L&T Technology Services) was selected for its niche expertise in design and development of application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), System on Chip (SoC), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) solutions, including the validation of smartNICs.