US manufacturing remained in expansion in August, but weaker new orders, backlogs, imports, and employment indicated some loss of momentum.

Weidmuller has introduced the DURAmax DC UPS, a compact 24 VDC backup power solution designed to maintain power to industrial automation devices during mains power interruptions.

Autonomous trucking is moving from technology demonstrations toward commercial middle-mile operations, shifting the industry’s focus from whether autonomy works to where it can operate reliably and economically.

Hitachi Digital Services and adesso are expanding their partnership to combine cloud transformation, AI-enabled engineering, and application reliability services for asset-intensive industries.

Freight tightening, geopolitical disruption, AI-driven execution, logistics technology investment, automation, cargo security, and network restructuring are converging to make logistics more adaptive—and more complex.

OPC Foundation’s Stefan Hoppe explains how semantic interoperability, standardized information models, cloud integration, and AI are expanding OPC UA from industrial data exchange into a broader foundation for digitalization.

Logistics is evolving from a collection of functional applications into a connected operating architecture that links physical assets, execution systems, visibility, intelligence, and orchestration.

COPA-DATA’s Kishor Mandavia and Infrared Power’s Varun Garg explore how scalable OT platforms, AI, and emerging connectivity approaches can help renewable energy operators manage increasingly complex assets and move toward more intelligent operations.

Systems engineering can help logistics organizations move beyond isolated technology projects by designing operations, data, decisions, people, and technology as one interconnected system.

ARC explores how Supply Chain Copilots combine real-time operational data, decision intelligence, and autonomous execution to coordinate Source, Make, and Deliver across complex supply networks.

ARC examines how Figure AI's Index platform highlights the growing importance of data operations and diverse training strategies in the race to scale humanoid robotics and Physical AI.

GE Vernova and LS ELECTRIC are forming a Joint venture, Grid X Technology, to combine VSC-HVDC technology, manufacturing, and project execution capabilities for Korea’s transmission market.

ARC explores how Enterprise Copilots connect ERP, EAM, cloud platforms, and operational data to align shop-floor execution with financial strategy, governance, and enterprise-wide autonomy.

SAP is broadening transportation management beyond core TMS functionality by connecting advanced planning, carrier collaboration, lighter logistics execution, warehouse integration, and emerging agentic AI capabilities into a more unified logistics execution architecture.

ARC examines how Bosch and Humanoid's manufacturing partnership, wheeled humanoid strategy, and Robotics-as-a-Service model could accelerate commercialization of humanoid robotics in Europe.