ABB and the Italian company FIMER S.p.A announced that they have signed an agreement for FIMER to acquire ABB’s solar inverter business.

Emerson has announced that it has completed the purchase of Zedi’s software and automation businesses.

Sumitomo Chemical and Isorg announced their agreement to develop new OPD products, like organic photodetectors, for use as smartphone fingerprint sensors and hybrid organic CMOS image sensors.

Baker Hughes, a GE company, and C3.ai announced a joint venture agreement that brings together BHGE’s fullstream oil and gas portfolio of solutions and services with C3.ai’s artificial intelligence (AI) software suite.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it has taken a minority equity stake in Akribis Systems Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based manufacturer of linear servo motors and linear stages, to strengthen its industrial automation solutions for the global market.

ABB and Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company, will collaborate to deliver a scalable, high-performance wireless connectivity solution for large industrial customers.

​​​​​​​Quorum Software (Quorum), a Thoma Bravo portfolio company and a leader in digital transformation for the oil and gas industry, announced it has acquired Dallas-based Archeio Technologies, a leading provider of oil and gas document classification and smart search technology.

 EQT Partners, a leading investment firm with $45B (€40B) of assets under management, has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire cloud-native enterprise software provider Acumatica through an investment vehicle owned by the same holding company that holds IFS AB (Industrial and Financial Systems), thus forming a global cloud ERP powerhouse

L&T Technology Services and The Kudelski Group announced a multi-faceted partnership to enable connected cars and industrial systems with device identity and protect the device, data, decisions, commands and actions.

Infosys announced a collaboration with Microsoft to deliver smart buildings and spaces (SB&S) solutions for the architecture, engineering, construction, facilities management and real estate development markets.