SIMATIC AX signals a shift from commissioning-driven PLC programming to a more deliberate, repeatable software lifecycle, helping teams deliver change faster, with greater confidence, across machines and plants.

Modern Zero Trust connectivity architectures can help industrial organizations reduce cyber risk, digitalize legacy OT assets, and support NIS2 and Cyber Resilience Act compliance.

The global industrial sector has reached a defining inflection point. A rigorous, multi-site analysis of the ARC Advisory Group Q4 2025 Industrial AI, Energy, and Robotics Survey reveals a market that has permanently fractured into what we call the "Digital Divide."

From an ARC perspective, the most significant observation is that digital twins are entering a new phase of maturity.

As manufacturers continue to move from digital transformation toward digital continuity, Siemens appears well positioned to support this transition.

Unlock the full potential of IT/OT/ET convergence by breaking down silos, securing data, and aligning technology.

Predictive maintenance (PdM) helps organizations identify early signs of degradation before failures become production or quality events. By using asset data, analytics, and machine learning, organizations can intervene earlier, reduce unnecessary maintenance on assets, extend equipment life, and improve planning for labor and spare parts.

SDA’s value proposition will ultimately be stronger in the process industries than in discrete manufacturing, because long asset lives make hardware/software decoupling a more strategic economic lever.

Connection Day 2026, organized by Xentara, a start-up developing an open real-time edge platform for software-defined automation, revealed emerging industry trends more clearly than large supplier-led conferences.

Kinaxis is using its AI-native Maestro platform as an execution command center designed to continuously sense, reason, and then execute supply chain decisions autonomously as necessary.

Digital Worker Solutions equip frontline employees—operators, maintainers, inspectors, and field technicians—with real-time, context-specific, and actionable information at the point of work. Digital Worker Solutions enhance productivity in the industry.

This perspective is inspired by a recent webinar featuring Infor MES expert Matt Barber and ARC Advisory Group’s Jan Burian, combining practitioner insights with broader market analysis.

Octave is positioning itself as a differentiated industrial software company by combining engineering, operations, safety, cybersecurity, and physical security capabilities around an AI-ready industrial data fabric and continuous digital thread.

Iteration speed has become the primary competitive differentiator in engineering.

An engineering ontology is a structured map of a product and its lifecycle context, defining how requirements, components, variants, software, releases, failures, service events, and customer use cases relate to one another so AI systems can reason over engineering knowledge rather than isolated documents.