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Hilscher’s netRAPID 90IC combines multiprotocol industrial communication, IIoT connectivity and integrated security in a compact 18 × 45 mm plug-in module. Its replaceable design simplifies integration and servicing for field devices.

Human-in-the-loop AI helps industrial organizations amplify human expertise, preserve institutional knowledge, and make smarter decisions.

The organizations that evolve to Industry 5.0 will be those that connect intelligence, infrastructure, and people into a highly efficient operating model.

Lights out machining gets the headlines. But today, we’re exploring how automation’s biggest impact often happens with the lights on. Explore how the right solution can increase capacity, reduce scrap, and help skilled machinists focus on higher-value work.

Appointment of Honeywell Technologies veterans will strengthen leadership across the company’s businesses and support its long-term growth outlook

Five bundles bring together essential Fluke tools around real-world workflows, giving students, recent grads and apprentices a clear path from foundational safety checks to advanced diagnostic.

This article explores how a resilient software foundation and a microkernel architecture can isolate critical workloads, contain faults, and support lifecycle cybersecurity. It highlights how foundational platforms such as QNX can enable secure and safe software-defined industrial modernization approaches that are essential in building and managing resilient systems throughout the systems lifecycle.

The newly updated Fourth Edition of A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge is the only officially authorized book covering ISA’s body of knowledge core competencies. This revised guide provides an overview of important automation concepts and processes, while also describing the technical skills required to implement them in today’s industrial environment.

The new mark of five million robots operational in factories worldwide is more than double the number seven years ago. The strongest growth is taking place in Asia, followed by Americas. Europe is moving ahead more slowly.

Vention’s new physical AI lab focuses on advancing robotic manipulation from cutting-edge AI research to reliable, scalable manufacturing deployment.

Factories generate enormous quantities of sensor data, yet most of it is never translated into timely operational decisions, leaving significant production capacity unrealized. The next industrial advantage will belong to companies and countries that build infrastructure capable of interpreting this data in real time and using it to improve factory operations.

A global study found that 85% of Asian energy leaders rank advancing autonomous operations as a top strategic priority.

America’s manufacturing expansion faces not only a labor shortage but a loss of institutional knowledge as experienced workers retire. Factories must capture human decisions alongside machine data to create a sovereign knowledge repository that helps future workers diagnose problems, act faster, and avoid repeating mistakes.

As the largest Series A in construction robotics history, this funding accelerates Gravis’s mission in physical AI — scaling autonomous heavy machinery across jobsites globally.

After a year of turbulent uncertainty caused by constantly shifting tariff regimes, businesses began to settle into a new normal and furthered capital investments to meet resilient consumer demand.

BareFLEET enables tug operators to save fuel and reduce unplanned downtime through condition monitoring using real-time data insights, digital twin technology and AI-driven predictive maintenance.

The latest customer success story from Mitsubishi Electric reveals the vendor’s vast experience with technology that delivers extreme speed and precision.

Milton Coleman will lead regional sales, product marketing, and corporate marketing for the organization.

Mitsubishi Electric Automation Inc., through this sponsorship, aims to enhance MassRobotics’ prototyping space so startups can accelerate testing as well as support startup initiatives to develop the next generation of manufacturing solutions that use technology and robots for factory automation customers worldwide.

Global industrial control for process manufacturing market was valued at $61.23 billion in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 5.2% from 2015 to 2021.