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Jul
02
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Trends

Oil and Gas Supply Chain Strategy: Why Energy Flows Are Now Strategic Infrastructure

ARC Advisory Group’s white paper examines why oil and gas supply chains must be managed as strategic infrastructure, with stronger visibility, resilience, optionality, and risk management across the value chain.

Jul
01
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Taming the Agentic Swamp: Anchoring Autonomy with Industrial-Grade Data Fabric

As autonomous agents move closer to live industrial operations, enterprises must build industrial-grade data fabrics that validate, contextualize, and govern the data feeding multi-agent systems.

Jul
01
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Schneider Electric Launches EcoStruxure Water Advisor for Water Utilities

Schneider Electric has launched EcoStruxure Water Advisor to help utilities use connected data, AI-driven analytics, and digital twin technology to improve water network visibility, reduce leakage, and support proactive infrastructure management.

Jul
01
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Surviving the SaaSpocalypse and Taming the Tokenpocalypse by Mastering Multi-Agent Industrial Governance

As Industrial AI moves from assistants to autonomous multi-agent systems, vendors and buyers must rethink software monetization, governance, and operational safeguards around agentic workflows.

Jul
01
2026

Craig Resnick — Acquisition or Partnership

Schneider Electric’s Planned Acquisition of Cognite Reinforces the Data Foundation for Industrial AI

Schneider Electric’s planned acquisition of Cognite will strengthen AVEVA’s industrial intelligence platform by adding data contextualization, industrial knowledge graph, and agentic AI capabilities for asset-intensive industries.

Jul
01
2026

Andy Chatha — Technology Trends

From Data to Decisions: Siemens’ Vision for Industrial AI at Automate 2026

Siemens is positioning Industrial AI around context, orchestration, and trusted decision support rather than raw data or standalone AI tools.

Jul
01
2026

Emilio Posa — Technology Trends

Datacor’s Approach to Process Simulation with CHEMCAD

Datacor is positioning CHEMCAD as an integrated process simulation platform that supports first-principles modeling, flexible deployment, usability, and closer connections across manufacturing systems.

Jul
01
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Beyond Moscone Center: Why the Agentic Lakehouse Still Stops at the Factory Wall

Databricks’ DAIS 2026 announcements highlight the growing role of governed data platforms in agentic AI, but industrial companies still need edge context, operational semantics, and safety boundaries to make multi-agent autonomy work on the plant floor.

Jul
01
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Schneider Electric Expands EcoCare Services to 3-Phase UPS

Schneider Electric has expanded EcoCare services to 3-Phase UPS systems to help organizations use AI-powered maintenance, connected asset data, and 24/7 remote monitoring to improve uptime and reduce risk.

Jul
01
2026

Andy Chatha — Technology Trends

Machine Vision Gets Smarter: How Cognex Is Bringing AI to Industrial Inspection

Cognex is showing how AI-enabled machine vision and 3D sensing are making industrial inspection smarter, more accessible, and more valuable across manufacturing operations.

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