Microsoft announced its dedicated Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing, one of several industry-specific offerings introduced by the company. 

ZEDEDA announced an integration with Microsoft Azure IoT services that provides customers with full lifecycle management capabilities (edge hardware, OS, Azure IoT Edge Runtime, Azure IoT Edge modules and additional apps),

Ericsson has launched 5G RAN Slicing solution for radio access networks (RAN) that will enable communications service providers to deliver customized 5G services with guaranteed performance.

Hitachi ABB Power Grids announced the launch of its Smart Digital Substation offering, which brings together the latest in digital substation technology with the unique predictive, prescriptive and prognostic capabilities of Hitachi’s Lumada Asset Performance Management (APM) solution.

ABB is expanding its collaborative robot (cobot) portfolio with the new GoFa and SWIFTI cobot families, ABB’s Next Generation Cobots

The ABB Flow-X gas and liquid flow computer has been improved to meet the Class 1 Division 2 and ATEX/IECEx Zone 2 certification

HMS Networks released one of the first commercially available industrial 5G router optimized for industrial private networks.

Rockwell Automation has released a new line of IEC industrial relays that help to save energy and simplify selection.  The new Allen-Bradley Bulletin 700-EF control relays offer universal wide-range coils.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it will begin providing OpreX Batch Solution on March 17.  This solution for batch manufacturing applications eliminates the overlap between process control system (PCS) and manufacturing execution system (MES) related work

Acuity Brands, Inc. announced it has agreed to sell its New York Digital Agency to Illuminations, Incorporated (I2), headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, effective March 1, 2021.