Connected Industries News

ABB launches AMR with vSLAM AI

ABB Robotics has announced an autonomous mobile robot equipped with AI-based Visual SLAM navigation technology. The Flexley Tug T702 provides increased speed, accuracy and autonomy in navigation and logistics [...]

Rockwell boosts AI in manufacturing with NVIDIA

Rockwell Automation is collaborating with NVIDIA to accelerate a next-generation industrial architecture. Rockwell aims to make it easier for manufacturers to digitalise industrial processes. Its plans include enhancing industrial [...]

Hexagon-Augment AI to measure mining blasts

Industrial digital reality specialist Hexagon is partnering Western Australia’s Augment Technologies to help mines maximise ore yield and optimise operational efficiencies by accurately accounting for blast movement. The partnership [...]

Ever.Ag-AWS AI-enhanced crop management

Agribusiness Ever.Ag is partnering AWS. The move will deepen the use of AWS capabilities across Ever.Ag’s products and businesses, including Austin Data Labs. Ever.Ag’s agricultural data analytics platform FieldAlytics [...]

Siemens-NVIDIA immersive visualisation

Siemens is deepening its collaboration with NVIDIA to build industrial metaverse systems. Siemens is adding immersive visualisation supported by new NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud APIs to the Siemens Xcelerator platform. [...]

Videosoft-Viasat real-time industrial monitoring

Viasat and Videosoft Global are partnering to provide real-time industrial monitoring with AI-powered video streaming. The new service is aimed at industrial operators with remote mining, energy extraction, or [...]

alwaysAI Vision AI platform for mining industry

Vision AI specialist alwaysAI has launched a set of solutions that combine the company’s computer vision platform with an analytics dashboard and bespoke AI solutions for the mining industry. [...]

Schneider launches Lean Plant solution

Schneider Electric has launched EcoStruxure Plant Lean Management, a digital solution that collects and aggregates data across industrial operations. The system provides key performance indicators (KPIs) for short interval [...]

Rockwell OT driven production scheduler

Rockwell Automation has developed a production scheduling tool that uses operational technology data to improve scheduling accuracy. Finite Scheduler is designed to modernise production scheduling with data-driven responsive finite [...]

UK Innovate awards 11 smart factory projects

UK Research and Innovation has awarded grants to 11 late-stage industrial robotics and automation projects equivalent to $4.7 million in total. The projects span process control, machine vision and [...]

Mitsubishi and K&B partner on vision systems

Mitsubishi Electric and industrial machine vision specialist Koenig & Bauer, are collaborating to offer standardised machine vision for electrode foil surface production, a key component in battery cell assembly. [...]

ABB acquires IIoT AI specialist Meshmind

ABB has acquired software provider Meshmind to expand its capabilities in AI, Industrial IoT and machine vision. With the acquisition, ABB will form a new global R&D hub to [...]