April 21, 2026
Agile Robots acquires thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering assets, creating Krause Automation. This strategic move combines AI-powered robotics with 75+ years of industrial automation expertise for global market expansion.
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Agile Robots
AI robotics
automation acquisition
industrial AI
industrial automation
Krause Automation
Physical AI
PLC systems
smart manufacturing
thyssenkrupp Automation Engineering
April 21, 2026
How Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream achieved 95% inventory accuracy and 4-hour time savings using Rockwell Automation's Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform, signaling a major shift in food manufacturing automation.
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Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream
digital transformation
food manufacturing
industrial automation
inventory accuracy
manufacturing execution system
PLC integration
Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform
Rockwell Automation
smart manufacturing
April 20, 2026
Siemens CEO warns EU's AI Act threatens Europe's industrial automation leadership, redirecting ā¬1 billion investment to US and China. Analysis of PLC market impact.
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AI regulations
automation market
digital twin
EU AI Act
industrial AI
industrial automation
Industry 4.0
manufacturing technology
PLC automation
Siemens
April 20, 2026
Schneider Electric and Deloitte's groundbreaking AI collaboration transforms industrial automation, merging IT/OT systems and redefining PLC programming for software-defined manufacturing operations.
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AI integration
Deloitte
Hannover Messe 2026
industrial AI
industrial automation
IT/OT convergence
PLC programming
programmable logic controllers
Schneider Electric
software-defined automation
April 20, 2026
Breaking news: Inductive Automation partners with Tiger Data to modernize industrial historian market through TimescaleDB integration, creating unified data infrastructure for industrial automation.
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data historian
edge computing
Ignition platform
Inductive Automation
industrial automation
industrial data management
PLC
SCADA
time-series database
TimescaleDB
April 20, 2026
QNX OS for Safety 8.0 integrates with Nvidia IGX Thor to create unified safety-critical AI platform for industrial automation, robotics, and medical systems. Learn how this impacts PLC architecture.
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edge computing
functional safety
IGX Thor
industrial automation
industrial robotics
Nvidia
PLC
QNX
real-time systems
safety-critical AI