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.

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.  

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. 

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

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),

Yokogawa Electric Corporation and Integrated Commissioning and Qualification Consultants, Corp. (ICQ Consultants) have entered into a partnership agreement under which ICQ Consultants will provide support of Yokogawa's advanced control bioreactor systems and related products in the United States.

Ericsson has launched 5G RAN Slicing solution for radio access networks (RAN) that will enable communications service providers to deliver customized 5G services with guaranteed performance.

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.

Siemens, IBM and Red Hat announced a new collaboration that will use a hybrid cloud designed to deliver an open, flexible and more secure solution for manufacturers and plant operators to drive real-time value from operational data. 

Autodesk, Inc. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Portland, Oregon-based Innovyze, Inc., a global player in smart water infrastructure modeling software

The ABB Flow-X gas and liquid flow computer has been improved to meet the Class 1 Division 2 and ATEX/IECEx Zone 2 certification