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."

Machine manufacturers showcasing security solutions for digital grinding processes at GrindingHub

GrindingHub - The digitalization of production processes, including those involving grinding technology, holds high expectations. We are approaching the physical limits in terms of grinding machine and tool precision. Accordingly, attention is now shifting towards process optimization and networking in the IoT (Internet of Things) as means of opening up new development potential.

Industry-Leading 10Mb Ethernet for Automotive, Enabling Software-Defined Vehicles

Analog Devices - Analog Devices and the BMW Group today announced an early adoption of E²B, ADI's 10BASE-T1S Ethernet to the Edge bus technology within the automotive industry. Automotive Ethernet connectivity is a key enabler of new, zonal architectures in automotive design and supports automotive megatrends such as software-defined vehicles.

Simple finger change during an ongoing process

Schunk - With the new jaw quick-change system BSWS-R, SCHUNK enables automated finger changes during an ongoing process. The cleverly designed system consists of just a few components and is compatible with all grippers with PGN-plus-P screw connection diagram. The BSWS-R represents the next evolutionary stage of the BSWS series from SCHUNK.

New Edge Solution Democratizes Operational Data for Faster Digital Transformation

Emerson - Global technology and software leader Emerson has launched the DeltaV Edge Environment, a first-of-its-kind integrated software solution that expands the capabilities of the evolving DeltaV automation platform to provide an operational technology (OT) sandbox for data manipulation, analysis, organization and more.

Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxure Plant Lean Management boosting productivity and digitalization in manufacturing

Schneider Electric - Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today launched EcoStruxure Plant Lean Management, a digital solution that collects and aggregates data across industrial operations to develop key performance indicators (KPIs) for short interval management (SIM) meetings, where shop floor teams review production cycles and identify issues and actions that need to be implemented.

Gartner Identifies the Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2024

Gartner - Generative AI (GenAI), unsecure employee behavior, third-party risks, continuous threat exposure, boardroom communication gaps and identity-first approaches to security are the driving forces behind the top cybersecurity trends for 2024, according to Gartner, Inc.