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Sep
04
2026

Nobuaki Konishi — Acquisition or Partnership

Yokogawa Signs Distribution Agreement with BuyCo for its Container Transport Management SaaS

Yokogawa has signed a distribution agreement with BuyCo to offer its container transportation management SaaS to companies, particularly in the materials industry.

Sep
04
2026

Asha Suparna — Industry Best Practice

From Industrial Automation to Industrial Autonomy

Yokogawa’s Rajeev Joshi explores how industrial AI, reinforcement learning, and a phased approach to autonomy can help process industries move beyond traditional automation while maintaining safety and operator trust.

Sep
04
2026

Marianne D’Aquila — Industry Trends

AI Moves from Feature to Foundation in Formulation Technologies

AI is becoming a foundational capability in formulation technologies, reshaping workflows, supplier strategies, regulatory intelligence, knowledge discovery, and product development.

Sep
03
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Trends

Uber’s Restructuring Shows Where AI in Logistics Is Really Going

Uber’s restructuring suggests that AI’s bigger logistics impact may come not from automating individual jobs, but from reducing the organizational layers and handoffs required to coordinate work.

Sep
03
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends

What Is a WMS in 2026? The Warehouse Management System Is Becoming Something More

WMS remains the authoritative core for warehouse inventory and work execution, but its value increasingly depends on how well it connects automation, data, decisions, and adjacent logistics systems.

Sep
02
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Trends

Autonomous Freight Is Moving From Experimentation Toward Commercial Logistics

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.

Sep
02
2026

Karthik Umachigi — Acquisition or Partnership

Hitachi Digital Services and adesso Strengthen Partnership for Industrial Digital Transformation

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

Sep
02
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Trends

This Week in Logistics: Freight Tightens, AI Moves into Execution, and Networks Get More Strategic

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.

Sep
02
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Trends

August Manufacturing PMI Remains in Expansion at 54.6 Percent but New Orders, Backlogs, and Imports Retract

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

Sep
02
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Weidmuller Introduces DURAmax DC UPS for Industrial Automation Applications

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.

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