Industrial AI Conference enters its second round

Hannover Messe - In the run-up to HANNOVER MESSE 2025, Deutsche Messe AG is organizing the Industrial AI Conference on January 22 in Frankfurt, following on from the successful event in 2024. Next year, the AI Conference will be divided into three tracks: Business, Engineering and Deep Tech.

ACHEMA Opening: Strong call for international cooperation

ACHEMA - At the ACHEMA Opening German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and thought leaders from the financial sector, the chemical industry and suppliers pointed out how the process industry is positioning itself within new global framework conditions. Their conclusion: The process industry is vital for the transformation of the economy and society as a whole and international cooperation is the order of the day to overcome the manifold challenges.

Applied AI and Cutting-edge Technology Start-ups Dominate this Year’s 100 New Members of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers Community

World Economic Forum - The World Economic Forum announces today the 2024 cohort of Technology Pioneers. The select group of 100 leading tech start-ups are focused on applying new breakthroughs in AI to develop clean energy solutions, healthcare innovation and progress in biotech, space and neurotechnology. These companies will contribute cutting-edge insights and expertise to the Forum’s global initiatives over the next two years and help scale their impact.

DuPont Announces Plan to Separate into Three Independent, Publicly Traded Companies

DuPont - DuPont today announced a plan to separate into three distinct, publicly traded companies. Under the plan, DuPont would execute the proposed separations of its Electronics and Water businesses in a tax-free manner to its shareholders with New DuPont continuing as a premier diversified industrial company following completion of the separations.

XenomatiX wins the Geospatial World Excellence Awards 2024

XenomatiX - At the Geospatial World Forum this year, held in Rotterdam from May 13-16, XenomatiX, developer of true solid-state LiDAR, received the esteemed Geospatial World Excellence Award for Technology Innovations 2024. This highly recognized award aims to acknowledge exceptional innovation in the geospatial industry.

Powerhouse for promising upswing

Hannover Messe - More than 130,000 visitors from 150 countries, 4,000 exhibiting companies, 300 startups and over 300 economic and political delegations from all over the world, HANNOVER MESSE impressively demonstrated its ability to internationally synthesize the best of technology innovations, business trade fair and economic and political agenda-setting. In other words, a veritable “powerhouse for the promising upswing” in Germany and Europe.

Snowflake launches Arctic: the most open, enterprise-grade Large Language Model

Snowflake - Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. With its unique Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, Arctic delivers top-tier intelligence with unparalleled efficiency at scale. It is optimized for complex enterprise workloads, topping several industry benchmarks across SQL code generation, instruction following, and more.

Introducing the Composability Framework V1.1

Digital Twin Consortium - Today, Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced Version 1.1 of the Digital Twin Capabilities Periodic Table (CPT), an architecture and technology agnostic requirements definition framework for organizations that want to design, develop, deploy, and operate digital twins based on use case capability requirements versus the features of technology solutions.

FieldComm Group and FDT Group Explore Strategic Business Collaboration

FieldComm Group - FieldComm Group (fieldcommgroup.org) and FDT Group (fdtgroup.org) are pleased to announce the completion of a term sheet outlining a plan to create a single business aimed at advancing integration technology and harmonizing control system applications across multiple protocol topologies supporting both process and factory automation.

IO-Link / J1939 radar scanner provides 3D movement data

Turck - Turck's MR15-Q80 3D radar sensor with IO-Link and a J1939 interface measures distance, position and movement of objects for collision avoidance or height control applications

TAS Cloud simplifies condition monitoring, system management and remote maintenance

Turck - Turck is expanding its Turck Automation Suite (TAS) IIoT and service software platform with the TAS Cloud industrial cloud service for remote maintenance and condition monitoring. Customers can put together their own individual cloud solution from six modules and thus also customize the billing of their services. Users only pay for services that they actually use.

Infineon world market leader in automotive MCUs for the first time

Infineon - Infineon Technologies continued to expand its leading market position in automotive semiconductors in 2023. According to the latest research by TechInsights the global automotive semiconductor market grew by 16.5 percent in 2023, reaching a new record size of US$69.2 billion. Infineon’s overall market share increased by one percentage point to about 14 percent in 2023, solidifying the company’s position as the global leader in the automotive semiconductor market.

Emerson’s New Comprehensive Automation Platform Empowers Decisive Action from Plant to Enterprise

Emerson - As part of its Boundless Automation vision, Emerson is evolving its DeltaV brand into the DeltaV Automation Platform. The newly expanded automation platform will include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, manufacturing execution systems (MES) and operations management software alongside the distributed control (DCS) and safety systems (SIS) and other technologies that have been part of the brand for decades.

Emerson’s New Compact, Rugged PC Built to Connect Industrial Floor to Cloud

Emerson - Emerson today announced the new PACSystems IPC 2010 Compact Industrial PC (IPC), a rugged industrial computer designed to handle a wide range of machine and discrete part manufacturing automation applications. The new solution is designed to serve manufacturing sites and OEM machine builders who need a ruggedized, compact, durable IPC to cost-effectively support their Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and other digital transformation initiatives.

Portable authenticity testing device detects food fraud at the point of sampling

BASF - Bia Analytical Ltd have joined forces with trinamiX GmbH to launch a ground-breaking new portable authenticity testing service that will offer customers along the food value chain a high-speed indication of authenticity at the point of sampling, taking testing out of the lab and into the supply chain.

Three trends set to drive cyber-attacks in 2024

Allianz - Following two years of high but stable loss activity, 2023 saw a worrying resurgence in ransomware and extortion losses, as the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve. Hackers are increasingly targeting IT and physical supply chains, launching mass cyber-attacks, and finding new ways to extort money from businesses, large and small.

TotalEnergies Partners with Major International Companies to Support e-NG Development

TotalEnergies - TotalEnergies is joining seven major companies to create an international coalition supporting the development of production and use of e-natural gas (e-NG), a synthetic natural gas produced from renewable hydrogen and CO2.

The All Electric Society Arena points the way to a carbon-neutral industrial society

Hannover Messe - At the upcoming HANNOVER MESSE, the concept of the All Electric Society will be highlighted for the first time and on a large scale with its own arena. The arena will be organized by the ZVEI together with well-known exhibitors. As stated by Gunther Koschnick, Head of Industry at ZVEI, "The aim of the All Electric Society Arena is to discuss the possibilities of an energy supply largely based on renewable energies, and to put them into practice."