Infosys announced the launch of Skava Commerce, a modern, mobile-first and modular e-commerce platform that delivers engaging omni-channel experiences. Skava, a Silicon Valley based e-commerce startup acquired by Infosys, developed Skava Commerce to allow businesses to leverage flexible cloud-based microservices and white label applications to quickly launch new offerings, improve conversion rates of digital channels, create highly responsive digital properties, and more.

IBM unveiled "Project DataWorks," a Watson initiative that is the industry's first cloud-based data and analytics platform to integrate all types of data and enable AI-powered decision-making. Project DataWorks is designed to make it simple for business leaders and data professionals to collect, organize, govern and secure data, so they can gain the insights needed to become a cognitive business.

​Halliburton has announced the release of the Acoustic Conformance Xaminer service (ACX), a technology to help operators identify and pinpoint costly wellbore leaks by analyzing sound waves that describe flow patterns in the formation and casing.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will be releasing ProSafe-RS R4.02.00 on September 28. With this latest release of the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system, a number of functional safety management (FSM) related functions have been added to the Automation Design Suite (AD Suite) engineering environment for ProSafe-RS that will support customers in ensuring safety throughout the plant lifecycle.

ABB has released an updated version of its System 800xA Minerals Library. The latest version adds functionalities for advanced analog loop control, further facilitating the engineering processes and widening the scope of visible information to improve the situation awareness for operators.

The new Minerals Library 6.0/0 features

Am 15.November um 11:00 Uhr (MESZ) veranstaltet die ARC ein Webinar über Technologien und Methoden, mit denen sich Ausfallzeiten vermeiden und Automatisierungssysteme zukunftssicher machen lassen.

​Siemens is strengthening its positioning with a new brand appearance, whose central component is the claim "Ingenuity for life." This claim will appear under the Siemens logo, the design and color of which will remain unchanged. Siemens is combining its logo with a slogan. Sunil Mathur, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens Limited said that Ingenuity for life is the unique combination of engineering, genius and innovation combined with the company's role to create value for customers, employees and society.

​Siemens has set up a "Smart Buildings" experience center at its Kalwa campus in Navi Mumbai to help understand what makes a building smart and the underlying smart technologies.  The interactive experience center showcases systems and solutions that make buildings smart, safe, secure, comfortable and energy efficient. Some of the systems that can be experienced include Integrated Building Management Systems (IBMS), Fire Detection and Suppression, Access Control, and Intelligent Video Surveillance with analytics.

​Siemens launched its Digital Factory Manufacturing Design Consultancy in Singapore on September 16 at a ceremony officiated by the country's Minister for Trade and Industry, Mr. S Iswaran, and Siemens CEO Mr. Joe Kaeser.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), the global, public-private organization formed to accelerate adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), published the Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF), a common security framework that addresses security issues in IIoT systems. The IISF emphasizes the importance of five IIoT characteristics – safety, reliability, resilience, security, and privacy – that help define "trustworthiness" in IIoT systems.