New Research Finds 75% of C-Suite View Low-Code as the Only Option for Coding in the Future

Mendix - New research from Mendix, a Siemens business, has found that low-code tools are no longer simply a tactical solution for departmental fixes but a strategic enterprise enabler that supports digital transformation at an organisational level. 53% of respondents rank digital transformation as their leading low-code use case.

ServiceTitan Unveils Powerful New AI Solutions at Pantheon 2024

ServiceTitan - ServiceTitan, a leading software platform built to power the trades, today announced additions to its AI-powered technology for residential and commercial contractors. The latest solutions unveiled at Pantheon 2024 include a transformative AI assistant that will work across ServiceTitan’s suite of products, along with new applications for sales and call centers.

The barcode turns 50 and doubles in power

Datalogic - Fifty years after its debut in an Ohio supermarket, the barcode that identifies retail products is evolving into a new two-dimensional format, offering consumers with more information and enhancing efficiency for retailers.

BMW Group and Toyota Motor Corporation take collaboration to the next level to offer Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) options for passenger cars

BMW - BMW plans to launch its first-ever series production fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) in 2028, thereby offering customers an additional all-electric powertrain option with zero local emissions in a BMW. The BMW Group and the Toyota Motor Corporation are pooling their innovative strength and their technological capabilities to bring a new generation of fuel cell powertrain technology to the roads.

Rockwell Automation Meets the Evolving Needs of OT Environments with Enhanced Industrial Data Centers

Rockwell Automation - The newest generation of Industrial Data Centers (IDC) offers a flexible, scalable compute solution for medium-to-large sized businesses interested in streamlined data collection and storage, with a goal of plant floor virtualization. IDC Gen 5.0 now offers on-cloud backup through Veeam Software, reduced server footprint, improved physical security, and an industrial-rated design geared toward harsh environments.

New Cisco State of Industrial Networking Report Reveals OT Security Now a Top Priority for CIOs

Cisco - Cisco today announced the release of its inaugural State of Industrial Networking report to spotlight the critical priorities of the evolving industrial networking landscape. Once a peripheral concern, operational technology (OT) security has become a mandatory focus for organizations worldwide.

AI and the Workforce: Industry Report Calls for Reskilling and Upskilling

Cisco - Today, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium–led by Cisco with industry leaders Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP, along with key advisors–released its inaugural report, “The Transformational Opportunity of AI on ICT Jobs.”

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.

New era of mobile computing with the new Memor 30-35 Family PDA

Datalogic - Powered by cutting-edge, innovative technology, universal connectivity, and best-in-class security the Memor 30/35 enhances productivity with innovative and valuable features while cutting down the total cost of ownership significantly. These future-proof and forward-looking devices provide a major advantage to customers in retail, transportation & logistics, and manufacturing industries.

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.