Lumus’ CES 2026 showcase signaled a clear inflection point for smartglasses optics, with the company unveiling waveguides that push field-of-view, brightness and manufacturability far beyond the incremental improvements that defined earlier consumer models.
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Synopsys’ Microsoft Ignite demonstration promised a step-change for factory-floor decisioning: a cloud-native, GPU-accelerated digital-twin framework that stitches together Ansys Fluent, NVIDIA Omniverse/OpenUSD, Synopsys’ accelerated physics orchestration, and Microsoft Azure to cut...
AVEVA has been named Microsoft’s 2025 Manufacturing Partner of the Year, a recognition that underscores the vendor’s push to combine industrial domain expertise with Microsoft’s cloud and AI platform to drive real‑time decisioning, sustainability gains and factory‑floor intelligence. Background...
The shop floor is no longer a separate world of paper logs and two‑way radios; it’s a live, cloud‑connected workspace where alerts, videos, maintenance tickets, and work instructions arrive in the same pane of glass—often inside Microsoft Teams—giving frontline operators, maintenance crews, and...
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Oracle and Microsoft’s joint blueprint promises to pull live shop‑floor signals into enterprise workflows — a practical move toward real‑time supply chain automation that could shorten decision cycles, reduce downtime, and make factory data actionable across Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM.
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The manufacturing sector is undergoing a seismic shift as AI, cloud platforms and digital‑thread approaches converge to remake how products are designed, validated and delivered—reducing downtime, accelerating time‑to‑market and opening new routes to resilience and scale.
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Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 is a clear market signal: the company has accelerated its Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and is staking a stronger claim in CRM and...
SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
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Visionet’s announcement that it has been named a Star Performer and placed as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 is a clear market signal: the company has accelerated its Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and is positioning...
Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 signals a clear acceleration in the company’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and a broader competitive shift among mid-tier systems...
Microsoft says its August Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) is not behind the recent wave of reports alleging SSDs and HDDs have been rendered inaccessible or corrupted, but the episode has exposed gaps in forensic clarity and left many users mistrustful of a conclusion drawn without a...
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Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment...
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Microsoft’s Azure Fibre R&D team — working with researchers from the University of Southampton and the Lumenisity spin‑out — has published results showing a hollow‑core (air‑cored) optical fiber with record low attenuation of 0.091 dB/km at 1,550 nm, a broad low‑loss spectral window, and...
NVIDIA’s decision to host Omniverse Cloud on Microsoft Azure marks a turning point for enterprises that want to build large-scale, secure digital twin and industrial simulation environments without the friction of managing complex, GPU‑heavy infrastructure themselves. The collaboration —...
AI-powered technologies are reshaping the manufacturing landscape, and Beyond Key has emerged at the forefront, revolutionizing how modern manufacturers manage operations through their Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Consulting services. Unveiling a future-focused approach, Beyond Key...
Beyond Key, a global IT consulting and software development firm, has rebranded its Bid Management Software to ProcureKey, marking a significant evolution in its procurement solutions. This strategic move underscores the platform's transformation into an AI-powered procurement solution built on...
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Altizon Inc., a leader in Digital Factory Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), has recently unveiled the APEX Alliance, a strategic reseller and channel program aimed at empowering industrial and operational technology (OT) solution providers to build profitable AI businesses on Microsoft Azure.
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The manufacturing industry stands on the precipice of a dramatic transformation, powered by recent advancements in generative AI and a rising crop of digital assistants known as Copilots, as well as a sophisticated family of autonomous systems referred to as agentic AI. Historically, this sector...
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The industrial IoT and AI landscape has just received a significant boost with the recent launch of the Altizon Partner EXcellence (APEX) Alliance, a program designed to accelerate the adoption of Industrial AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. This strategic initiative, spearheaded by Altizon, an...
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The Press Trust of India (PTI) article titled "Altizon Completes Strategic Migration to Microsoft Azure, Unlocking AI-Driven Productivity for Global Manufacturers" reports on Altizon's successful migration to Microsoft Azure. This move is positioned as a strategic step to enhance and unlock...
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