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Rockwell Automation: Emulate3D Brings Autonomous Operations to Life Using NVIDIA Omniverse
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Rockwell Automation: Emulate3D Brings Autonomous Operations to Life Using NVIDIA Omniverse

Rockwell Automation, Inc. has recently announced it is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse application programming interfaces into its Emulate3D digital twin software to enhance factory operations through artificial intelligence and physics-based simulation technology. Digital twins enhance equipment development and control testing through simulation models and emulation, reducing startup time and risk. As equipment is connected into lines, models scale and challenges arise from siloed expertise and integration issues between separately engineered components.

Emerson: New Energy Manager Solution Reduces Energy Costs, Carbon Emissions for Manufacturers
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Emerson: New Energy Manager Solution Reduces Energy Costs, Carbon Emissions for Manufacturers

Emerson has launched its new Energy Manager solution, a pre-engineered hardware and software offering designed to simplify industrial electricity monitoring with quick setup and intuitive operation. Ready out of the box, the Energy Manager solution monitors asset energy use in real time, allowing manufacturers to gain deeper insight into energy consumption and operating costs, lowering carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and maximize energy and operational efficiency.

Phoenix Contact: clipx Engineer – Worker Assistance Software for Terminal Strip Assembly in Control Cabinet Building
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Phoenix Contact: clipx Engineer – Worker Assistance Software for Terminal Strip Assembly in Control Cabinet Building

The clipx Engineer engineering software from Phoenix Contact optimizes data consistency from the circuit diagram to the finished control cabinet. The new clipx Engineer assemble worker assistance software is designed for the assembly process of terminal strips. It can be integrated into the engineering software as a paid add-on and provides all the necessary data from the engineering process for assembly. This enables seamless integration into existing workflows. With direct data transmission from engineering and the consistent provision of all necessary production data, users benefit from significant time savings.

Siemens: MACHINUM Machine Tool Digitalization Software Portfolio U.S. Launch
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Siemens: MACHINUM Machine Tool Digitalization Software Portfolio U.S. Launch

Siemens has announced its U.S. launch of MACHINUM at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS). MACHINUM is the CNC digitalization software portfolio designed to manage, analyze and optimize shopfloor performance and aims to help machine tool users and builders improve their operations and productivity through seamless software integration. The digitalization portfolio is integrated into Siemens Xcelerator, allowing companies in the machine tool sector to better facilitate digital transformation – making it more efficient, faster and scalable in both manufacturing and design, and the demand for energy efficiency, sustainability and high-quality product manufacturing.

EPLAN: New Version 2025 of eBUILD Software
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EPLAN: New Version 2025 of eBUILD Software

Automating the generation of schematics leads to faster results and fewer errors. Solutions provider EPLAN has developed a variety of technical approaches for this process. One of these is the cloud-based software EPLAN eBUILD, with which users can generate their projects with a simple mouse click. The new Version 2025 is now available – with significant advantages in ease of use, operation, and for configurating and generating schematics.

nVent Hoffman: Simplified Automation With DTM Software
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nVent Hoffman: Simplified Automation With DTM Software

Backed by 75+ years of industry experience, DTM software lets you customize panel designs, enclosures, machines and factory systems using a single source of truth. Share real-time schematics, design files and project plans across teams. Easily integrate components from hundreds of OEMs as well as a full range of nVent HOFFMAN parts and enclosure templates. With information you need at your fingertips, manufacture higher quality enclosures faster—and at a much lower cost.

Emerson: New Ovation 4.0 to Deliver Software-Defined, AI-Ready Automation Platform for Power and Water Industries
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Emerson: New Ovation 4.0 to Deliver Software-Defined, AI-Ready Automation Platform for Power and Water Industries

Emerson is updating its Ovation Automation Platform to include a software-defined architecture – Ovation 4.0 – that will help utilities better leverage data, new technologies and artificial intelligence (AI). This enhancement will enable the industries to achieve new levels of operational excellence and meet the increasing demand for reliable, affordable and sustainable power and water. Today’s progress toward energy transition, global sustainability targets and “electrification of everything” is transforming the power and water industries. These complex challenges require modern, adaptive technologies that interconnect previously siloed data and provide a holistic operational view to improve performance and availability.

Siemens and BILT Launch Apple Vision Pro Spatial Computing Electrical Training
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Siemens and BILT Launch Apple Vision Pro Spatial Computing Electrical Training

Siemens and BILT, the creators of 3D Intelligent Instructions, are optimizing their mobile guides into spatial models for Apple Vision Pro. As the need for skilled electricians and other trades grows, training the entering workforce while up-skilling the existing one, is essential. Tools such as BILT on Apple Vision Pro provide a highly immersive and visual training experience that helps users not only learn faster, but safer.

Emerson: DeltaV Workflow Management Next-Generation Software Streamlines Pharmaceutical Development, Accelerates Speed to Market
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Emerson: DeltaV Workflow Management Next-Generation Software Streamlines Pharmaceutical Development, Accelerates Speed to Market

Emerson has recently introduced DeltaV Workflow Management, a next-generation software designed for life sciences companies in early-stage development. The new software continues Emerson’s expansion of capabilities of the evolving DeltaV automation platform to offer more scalable options to suit the needs of smaller life sciences innovators. For companies with limited IT infrastructure, DeltaV Workflow Management provides a cloud-based, software-as-a-service solution for simple recipe authoring, execution and electronic data capture.

Emerson: New DeltaV Automation Platform Empowers Decisive Action from Plant to Enterprise
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Emerson: New DeltaV Automation Platform Empowers Decisive Action from Plant to Enterprise

As part of its Boundless Automation vision for helping organizations deliver more seamless operations, Emerson is evolving its DeltaV brand into the DeltaV Automation Platform. The newly expanded automation platform will include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, manufacturing execution systems (MES) and operations management software alongside the distributed control (DCS) and safety systems (SIS) and other technologies that have been part of the brand for decades. The evolution builds a more comprehensive automation platform to make it easier for users to deliver smarter, safer, more optimized and more sustainable operations.

Rockwell Automation: New FactoryTalk Analytics GuardianAI Software Predicts Equipment Failures, Prevents Unplanned Downtime
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Rockwell Automation: New FactoryTalk Analytics GuardianAI Software Predicts Equipment Failures, Prevents Unplanned Downtime

FactoryTalk Analytics GuardianAI software offers maintenance engineers the insight to understand the current condition of assets on the plant floor. They receive early notice as soon as an asset begins deviating from normal. Armed with this knowledge, they can plan their maintenance activities based on which asset has the highest risk of failure and let other assets continue to run, without stopping production unnecessarily to perform service.

Rockwell Automation: Finite Scheduler Provides a Smarter Way to Manage Manufacturing Production Schedules
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Rockwell Automation: Finite Scheduler Provides a Smarter Way to Manage Manufacturing Production Schedules

Rockwell Automation introduces Finite Scheduler, an update to its software portfolio to help customers modernize their production scheduling with reliable and responsive finite capacity capabilities. Utilizing data from the manufacturing process, Finite Scheduler was built to improve scheduling accuracy, increase throughput and drive on-time delivery.

Schneider Electric, in Collaboration With Intel and Red Hat Delivers Next-Generation, Open Automation Infrastructure
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Schneider Electric, in Collaboration With Intel and Red Hat Delivers Next-Generation, Open Automation Infrastructure

Schneider Electric, in collaboration with the technology companies Intel and Red Hat, has recently announced the release of a Distributed Control Node (DCN) software framework. An extension of Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Automation Expert, this new framework enables industrial companies to move to a software-defined, plug-and-produce solution, allowing them to enhance their operations, ensure quality, reduce  complexity, and optimize costs.

Weidmuller USA: New RailAssembler and RailLaser Solutions Bring Automated Cabinet Building Closer to Customers
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Weidmuller USA: New RailAssembler and RailLaser Solutions Bring Automated Cabinet Building Closer to Customers

Weidmuller USA has recently announced the full operation of its Automated RailAssembler and RailLaser machines for a faster, more efficient way to assemble and mark terminal rails. “We’re proud to offer our customers in North America the next level for automated terminal rail assembly and marking. It’s a game-changer for panel builders in every industry sector,” said Carlus Hicks, Director Cabinet Products Division with Weidmuller USA.

Emerson’s New Edge Solution Democratizes Operational Data for Faster Digital Transformation
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Emerson’s New Edge Solution Democratizes Operational Data for Faster Digital Transformation

Emerson has recently launched the DeltaV Edge Environment, a first-of-its-kind integrated software solution that expands the capabilities of the evolving DeltaV automation platform to provide an operational technology (OT) sandbox for data manipulation, analysis, organization and more. Teams can deploy and execute applications to run key artificial intelligence (AI) engines and analytics close to the data source with seamless, secure connectivity to contextualized OT data across the cloud and enterprise. The DeltaV Edge Environment empowers teams to more quickly deliver operational improvements tied to productivity, sustainability and other business objectives.

Next Level for Siemens Industrial Edge: New Cloud Service, More Devices, and Low-Code Integration
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Next Level for Siemens Industrial Edge: New Cloud Service, More Devices, and Low-Code Integration

Industrial companies are increasingly relying on what’s known as edge computing in their production. It allows them to capture and process data where it’s generated: at the field level in the plant. At this year’s SPS trade show in Nuremberg, the technology company Siemens is expanding its range of products and services for Industrial Edge at all levels. This will allow users to connect their information technology (IT) even better with the operational level (OT). Industrial Edge is also part of the portfolio of the Siemens Xcelerator open and flexible business platform.