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In this webinar, Productive Robotics — the only USA manufacturer of 7-axis collaborative robots — walks through real shop examples and side-by-side video demonstrations showing...
April 9, 2026
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This session explores how leading OEMs like Siemens, Hexagon, and Stäubli broke this bottleneck. By moving from legacy licensing logic to commercial monetization infrastructure...
March 26, 2026
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Power Up Your Operations: Essential I/O and Power Solutions Navigate critical industrial infrastructure decisions with confidence. This comprehensive e-handbook delivers expert...
Feb. 10, 2026
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Which Quality of Service (QoS) is Right for IIoT?
Executive Summary The three Quality of Service levels (QoS) offered by MQTT may have been adequate for the original design goals, which was a one-hop connection for remote devices...
Jan. 20, 2026

Podcasts

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Norfolk Southern railcar being inspected with AI vision system
Insights for manufacturers on the benefits of AI vision inspection from Norfolk Southern. Using this technology, the rail company identified more than twenty-five thousand defects...
April 8, 2026
Virtual Controllers in Manufacturing
In this excerpt from Automation World's podcast discussion with Jayesh Jariwala of Applied Control Engineering about the use of virtual controllers in manufacturing, Jayesh addresses...
April 7, 2026
Could i3X Finally Solve Manufacturing's Interoperability Problem?
CESMII's new i3X platform aims to standardize manufacturing APIs, enabling portable apps across vendor platforms and ending costly system fragmentation. We connect with Jonathan...
March 20, 2026
How Software Licensing Transforms Industrial OEM Revenue
Dale Hopkinson with Thales explains how Industrial equipment manufacturers are shifting from costly hardware variants to software differentiation, unlocking recurring revenue ...
March 16, 2026

Factory

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automated packaging operations
The guide introduces a framework around energy consumption at the machine level and alignment with the PackML PackTags interface.
April 13, 2026
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Why is industrial surge protection important in automation systems?
April 10, 2026
Vecna CaseFlow Voice
The technology reduces reliance on handheld devices to improve safety and achieve 2x throughput improvements.
April 10, 2026
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CESMII’s Jonathan Wise explains that i3X doesn't replace existing industrial standards, it snaps on top of them to deliver the interoperability manufacturers have long been chasing...
April 9, 2026

Process

Honeywell Experion Operations Assistant
The Experion Operations Assistant is built on Honeywell’s existing control system and merges data with operational insights for plant performance monitoring.
April 8, 2026
Alec Vanden Brink
Rising energy costs, increasing demand on the grid, and expanding sustainability expectations are pushing manufacturers to rethink how they monitor and control power. What was...
April 6, 2026
researcher views Opentrons Flex automated lab equipment
Opentrons' new simulation tool lets researchers visually inspect and step through AI-generated robotic protocols before running them in the lab.
April 3, 2026
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Visual intelligence combines real-time dashboards with AI-powered insights to help operations teams turn fragmented data into faster, safer decisions.
March 31, 2026

Products

Flux Ind-Max Inductive Angle Encoders
The Ind-Max range of inductive angle encoders for harsh conditions now has 75 mm and 100 mm outer diameter size options.
April 13, 2026
Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Design Workbench Micro Control Software
FactoryTalk Design Workbench is a free software tool for building micro control systems smarter and faster.
April 10, 2026
Cincoze Magnet Embedded Computer Series
The new Magnet product line is a DIN rail embedded computer series specifically designed for machine vision applications in smart manufacturing environments.
April 9, 2026
Kollmorgen Essentials Servo Systems
The Kollmorgen Essentials motion systems are pre-configured systems that enable simple sizing and selection.
April 8, 2026

Control

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ABB's Automation Extended separates stable process control from digital capabilities, enabling AI adoption and cybersecurity compliance without requiring replacement of existing...
March 24, 2026
ABB Optimax
This new version was developed to provide operators with greater flexibility in the deployment, scaling and operation of energy and process optimization applications.
March 4, 2026
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Automation World: Gets Your Questions Answered
In this episode, we connect with Stefan Basenach, senior vice president of automation technology at ABB, to learn how ABB's new dual-environment architecture, called Automation...
Feb. 27, 2026
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The technology decouples hardware from software to protect existing investments and help companies modernize their hybrid and process control systems faster.
Feb. 24, 2026

Robotics

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The partnership will focus on capturing data from real-world robotic operations to improve Google DeepMind's models and expand industrial robotics capabilities.
April 6, 2026
robot training for AI-driven applications
The trainer allows robotics developers to shift towards fully AI-driven tasks by automatically capturing synchronized robot and vision data.
March 31, 2026
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The companies will integrate Nvidia’s Omniverse libraries into ABB’s RobotStudio to simulate robots in digital twins and generate synthetic data to train physical AI models.
March 26, 2026
Leju Robotics humanoid robot
The partnership is reportedly the first between a Chinese company and existing partnerships with manufacturers in Europe and the U.S.
March 17, 2026