US manufacturing maintained expansion in September, but rising input prices, delivery delays, and inventory pressure could challenge margins and execution.

LTTS Client Day discussions at MIT Media Lab emphasized that successful enterprise AI depends on data, governance, people, and trusted expertise.

ICC 2026 showed how Inductive Automation is expanding Ignition from HMI/SCADA into a broader industrial application, data, historian, and AI-enabled automation platform.

OPC UA is extending beyond OT-to-IT data exchange, using information models to support interoperable applications across the factory, cloud, product lifecycle, and AI.

Honeywell’s benchmark report finds that incomplete asset visibility, legacy infrastructure, and limited recovery readiness continue to constrain OT cybersecurity maturity.

Plants can build justified reliance on automation by treating operator distrust as evidence for better design, validation, training, and operating controls.

New trials show how OpenRoaming and FDO can support secure, zero-touch onboarding and redeployment of IoT and edge devices.

The LoRa Alliance reports that the global installed base of LoRaWAN-connected devices has reached 150 million nodes, reflecting continued adoption across industrial, utility, agriculture, asset-tracking, and safety applications.

Decision intelligence is defined by its ability to improve consequential decisions and coordinate the resulting actions across supply-chain operations.

Germany’s industrial divergence highlights how capacity reductions and supplier stress can reshape supply-chain risk before demand recovers.