industrial automation

NVIDIA’s new Skild AI customer story makes a large claim with a practical implication for industrial IT: a single robot-control model can be trained in simulation across humanoids, quadrupeds, wheeled machines and arms, then adapted to new hardware with little additional robot-specific training...

Qnity Electronics is pairing University of Delaware engineering students with its technical leaders and opening a pilot work-study program, turning a local university relationship into a direct pipeline for semiconductor manufacturing talent and automation work. As reported by Manufacturing...

B&R Industrial Automation’s June 2026 advisory says multiple Linux kernel vulnerabilities affect Linux for B&R 12 and earlier, APROL releases before APROL-AutoYaST-DVD V4.4-010.10.260602, and all X20EDS410 devices, enabling local privilege escalation on exposed systems. The headline is not that...

Microsoft on June 18, 2026, pitched agentic AI for plant operations as a governed, human-supervised layer for process manufacturers, using Yara’s Porsgrunn fertilizer plant and Kongsberg Digital’s Azure-based digital twin work as its showcase example of AI moving from dashboards toward...

Ultimo announced on May 28, 2026, that it has added three AI “digital workers” for maintenance planning, technician support, and health, safety, and environment workflows to its Intelligent Asset Management platform for industrial maintenance teams. The launch is not just another vendor...

Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft are making a familiar industrial promise sound newly urgent: if factories can sense trouble earlier, reason over live data faster, and trigger better responses without waiting for a human to stitch together dashboards, downtime should fall. The companies’ new...

Schneider Electric’s latest Hannover Messe push with Microsoft marks a notable shift from isolated industrial AI demos toward a more integrated agentic manufacturing story. The company is positioning EcoStruxure Automation Expert and Microsoft’s Azure AI stack as a single workflow for...

Schneider Electric is using Hannover Messe 2026 to send a clear message to industrial customers: the next phase of factory modernization will not be defined by isolated copilots or point solutions, but by a tightly coupled workflow that blends open automation, cloud-scale AI, and agentic...

Schneider Electric’s latest collaboration milestone with Microsoft arrives at exactly the moment industrial buyers are asking for something more than another dashboard, another pilot, or another AI proof of concept. The companies are positioning agentic manufacturing as a practical operating...

Schneider Electric’s deepening work with Microsoft is another sign that industrial automation is entering a new software-first phase, and this time the implications reach far beyond pilot projects. The companies are positioning open, AI-powered automation as a practical alternative to legacy...

Festo’s automation stack has once again been thrust into the spotlight after a coordinated disclosure identified a large set of serious vulnerabilities in the way CODESYS is packaged and delivered with the Festo Automation Suite. The consolidated advisory—republished in CSAF form and summarized...

Schneider Electric has published an urgent security notification: a high‑severity flaw (CVE‑2026‑0667) in its SCADAPack™ x70 family and RemoteConnect software can be triggered over Modbus TCP and — if left unpatched — may allow remote attackers to cause denial of service, execute arbitrary code...

AI is already reshaping factories from the shop floor to the executive suite—enabling personalized products at scale, automating recurring workflows, and shrinking the gap between design, procurement, and production. What used to require manual coordination across departments can now be...