industrial automation

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...