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Electric Heavy Vehicles Driving the Shift toward Sustainable Industrial Transport

Electric Heavy Vehicles Driving the Shift toward Sustainable Industrial Transport

For decades, the sound of a diesel engine roaring to life was simply the sound of industry getting to work. Today, that sound is changing. Across ports, warehouses, construction sites, and manufacturing hubs, a quieter, cleaner alternative is taking over the yard: electric trucks. What started as a niche experiment is now a full-fledged movement, and it's reshaping how goods...

Trucks and Heavy Vehicles in Industrial Automation: Technologies, Applications and Smart Fleet Solutions

Trucks and Heavy Vehicles in Industrial Automation: Technologies, Applications and Smart Fleet Solutions

Industrial operations across manufacturing, logistics, mining, and warehousing are undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. At the center of this shift are trucks and heavy vehicles in industrial automation applications — machines that were once purely mechanical workhorses and are now becoming intelligent, connected, and increasingly autonomous. As factories and distribution centers race to improve throughput, safety, and cost efficiency,...

Innovations in HVAC Uniforms: Materials and Technologies Enhancing Comfort and Safety

Innovations in HVAC Uniforms: Materials and Technologies Enhancing Comfort and Safety

The demands of HVAC professionals are unique, often requiring them to work in extreme conditions that necessitate gear that can keep up. In industrial plants, manufacturing facilities, and large commercial buildings, HVAC technicians may also work around complex machinery, electrical systems, confined spaces, and changing environmental conditions.

Production Conveyor Systems for Scalable Manufacturing: The Invisible Force behind Smart Factory Automation

Production Conveyor Systems for Scalable Manufacturing: The Invisible Force behind Smart Factory Automation

Modern manufacturing is often associated with robots, AI-powered quality inspection, predictive maintenance, and digital twins. Yet behind every successful smart factory lies a technology that rarely makes headlines—but determines whether production scales efficiently or struggles under pressure: Production Conveyor Systems.

Heavy-Duty Conveyor Systems for High-Volume Industrial Material Handling Operations

Heavy-Duty Conveyor Systems for High-Volume Industrial Material Handling Operations

Modern industrial operations depend on efficient, reliable, and scalable material movement to maintain productivity and meet increasing production demands. Whether transporting raw materials in mining, moving packaged goods in manufacturing facilities, or handling bulk commodities in ports and warehouses, Industrial Conveyor Systems have become an indispensable component of industrial infrastructure.

ABB Introduces Grinding Connect to Advance Digital Transformation of Gearless Mill Drives

ABB Introduces Grinding Connect to Advance Digital Transformation of Gearless Mill Drives

ABB has launched Grinding Connect, a new digital service suite designed to help mining companies operating gearless mill drive (GMD) systems improve asset visibility, minimise unplanned downtime and optimise maintenance planning. Available worldwide, the platform arrives as mining operators face increasing pressure to maintain production throughput while ensuring operational reliability.

JAI Introduces New Single-Sensor Visible + SWIR Area Scan Camera

JAI Introduces New Single-Sensor Visible + SWIR Area Scan Camera

JAI has expanded its Wave camera portfolio with the introduction of the Wave WAA-1300-GE-TEC, a new area scan camera that combines visible and short-wave infrared (SWIR) imaging capabilities in a single solution. Built around an advanced InGaAs image sensor with spectral sensitivity ranging from 400 nm to approximately

Kollmorgen Expands Essentials™ Portfolio with New Controller and High-Voltage Capability

Kollmorgen Expands Essentials™ Portfolio with New Controller and High-Voltage Capability

Kollmorgen Corporation, a global leader in motion control and automation systems, has expanded its Kollmorgen Essentials™ portfolio with the introduction of the PCMM2G Essentials controller and new high-voltage drive capability supporting up to 4 kW. These additions broaden the Essentials portfolio, enabling support for a wider range of industrial applications and motion control requirements.

Kassow Robots introduces KR 1824 and KR 1240 Robots

Kassow Robots introduces KR 1824 and KR 1240 Robots

Kassow Robots, the Copenhagen-based manufacturer of high-performance seven-axis lightweight collaborative robots, has introduced its latest models, the KR 1824 and KR 1240. Leveraging the company’s signature seven-axis design, the new cobots extend collaborative robotics into higher-payload applications while maintaining flexibility, compactness, and ease of deployment. The models

ABB Robotics introduces OmniCore EyeMotion to enable vision-driven autonomous operations

ABB Robotics introduces OmniCore EyeMotion to enable vision-driven autonomous operations

ABB Robotics has launched OmniCore™ EyeMotion, enabling any OmniCore™-powered robot to recognise its surroundings using third-party cameras or sensors and adapt in real time, even in complex applications.

NVIDIA and Robotics Leaders Advance Physical AI for Real-World Deployment

NVIDIA and Robotics Leaders Advance Physical AI for Real-World Deployment

NVIDIA is working with the global robotics ecosystem, including robot brain developers, industrial robot makers and humanoid specialists, to advance production-scale physical AI. The company also introduced new NVIDIA Isaac simulation frameworks, along with NVIDIA Cosmos and NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open models, to help the industry develop, train and deploy next-generation intelligent robots.

ANDRITZ Receives Contract to Modernize Picote I Hydropower Plant in Portugal

ANDRITZ has secured a contract from ENGIE Hidroelétricas do Douro, acting on behalf of Movhera Hidroelétricas do Norte SA, to modernize three generating units at the Picote I hydro...

FANUC America Announces $90 Million Investment to Expand U.S. Robot Manufacturing Capacity

FANUC America announced plans for to construct a new 840,000 sq. ft. facility in Michigan providing production-ready space for the potential expansion

ABB to invest $200 million to expand medium-voltage manufacturing across Europe

ABB has announced plans to invest approximately $200 million in its medium-voltage manufacturing operations across Europe over the next three years. The investment aims to increase...

Siemens Announces $165 Million Manufacturing Expansion Across the Carolinas

Siemens is investing more than $165 million across North and South Carolina to strengthen support for the rapidly growing AI and data center markets in the United States.

Valmet to supply automation and safety systems for waste-to-energy plant in Poland

Valmet will supply its Valmet DNAe Distributed Control System (DCS) along with safety systems for a new waste-to-energy steam unit at the Green Energy Park project in Gliwice, Pola...

ANDRITZ Receives Contract for Automation Upgrade at Itumbiara Hydropower Plant, Brazil

AXIA Energia has awarded a major automation modernisation contract to ANDRITZ for the Itumbiara hydropower plant in Brazil.

HD Hyundai Electric Invests $200 Million to Expand Extra High Voltage Transformer Production in North America

HD Hyundai Electric has commenced a $200 million expansion of its North American production subsidiary, further strengthening its position in the region’s extra high voltage power...

Valmet Received Order to Supply Energy Production Flexibility Solutions for Fortum in Finland

Valmet will supply energy balance and district heating accumulator optimisation solutions to Fortum’s energy production plants and assets in Espoo, Finland.

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Indonesia Digital Technology Expo 2026

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India Energy Summit & Expo 2026

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Axelera AI Introduces New Product Naming to Reflect Embedded-to-Server AI Strategy

Axelera AI, the leading provider of purpose-built AI acceleration technology, announced...

Emerson's Integrated Automation Portfolio Fast-Tracks AI-Scale Data Centers

As artificial intelligence (AI) accelerates data center demand and compresses project t...

Honeywell Technologies Completes Sale of Productivity Solutions and Services Business to B...

Honeywell Technologies (NASDAQ: HON) today announced the completion of the sale of its...

Mutual of Omaha and Vamrah to Collaborate on Automation Pilot

Mutual of Omaha’s Workplace Solutions is working with Vamrah to accelerate the us...

Ams OSRAM OSLON Black IR:6 C-Series Automotive LEDs, Now Available from Mouser, Enable Dri...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest electronic...

Toshiba Starts Mass Production of Compact Microcontrollers with Arm® Cortex®‑M4 Core for S...

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has started...

Mouser's AI and Power Management Resource Hubs Help Engineers Deliver Industrial Edge AI

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the New Product Introduction (NPI) leader™ empowering innovation...

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Skyline Automation and Confinity Robotics Announce Strategic Investment and Preferred Pl...

Skyline Automation LLC and Confinity Robotics, Inc. today announced a strategic investment...

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Tesollo, a Robotic Hand Specialist, Kicks Off IPO Process | Appoints KB Securities as Le...

Tesollo, a South Korean robotic hand specialist, has officially begun preparations for its...

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Muse Semiconductor and True Circuits Launch PLL IP Access Program for Universities at Lo...

Muse Semiconductor, a subsidiary of GS Microelectronics US, Inc. (GSME) and a leading prov...

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Robo.ai and Abu Dhabi Enterprise Jointly Establish AI Industrial Group Alif Holding to S...

Robo.ai Inc. (NASDAQ: AIIO) (the "Company" or "Robo.ai") today announced that it has enter...

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IME 2026 Successfully Concludes | Connecting ASEAN Industrial Resources and Supporting t...

On July 24, 2026, the three-day Intelligent Manufacturing Expo Southeast Asia 2026 (IME 20...

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Tenders

Title: Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning installation work

Country: Germany

Tender Reference: OJ S 142/2026 27/07/2026

Published Date: 27 Jul 2026

Action Deadline: 25 August 2026

Short Description: Extension MPGRS Hungen - Interior fit-out: Ventilation & building automation / 1st construction phase.

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Title: Industrial machinery

Country: Germany

Tender Reference: OJ S 144/2026 29/07/2026

Published Date: 29 Jul 2026

Action Deadline: 27 August 2026

Short Description: Delivery and ready-to-use setup of technical and didactic equipment for inter-company training in the fields of metal technology and electrical engineering: Lot 1: ICT and digital presentation media, Lot 2: Laboratory equipment for control technology

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Title: Industrial robots

Country: France

Tender Reference: OJ S 142/2026 27/07/2026

Published Date: 27 Jul 2026

Action Deadline: 15 September 2026

Short Description: Supply and commissioning of an RFID-based mass sorting robot for the automated management of documents in the central reserve of Parisian libraries.

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Title: Pumping station construction work

Country: Greece

Tender Reference: OJ S 143/2026 28/07/2026

Published Date: 28 Jul 2026

Action Deadline: 17 September 2026

Short Description: The project concerns the construction of pumping station facilities for the interconnection of Kozani district heating with the new and under construction thermal energy production facilities within the Kardia Thermal Power Plant site through the new thermal energy

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Title: Engineering services

Country: Switzerland

Tender Reference: OJ S 137/2026 20/07/2026

Published Date: 20 Jul 2026

Action Deadline: 10 November 2026

Short Description: The Locle bypass project is a new development consisting of a tunnel bypass to the north (a two-way tube with a safety gallery), starting near the Col des Roches train station (site of the Granges quarry) and ending at the existing Crêt-du-Locle junction.

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Omar Khalifa

Omar Khalifa

Sales and Business Development

Triol Corporation

“Africa’s energy future will be shaped by smarter integration of automation, digitalization, and efficient power systems to drive reliable and sustainable growth.”

Ehab Alotaibi

Ehab Alotaibi

Regional Sales Manager

Kawasaki Robotics EMEA

Accelerating Robotics Adoption in the Middle East: Trends, Challenges, and the Role of Industrial Partnerships

Welinton dos Santos

Welinton dos Santos

Technical Vice President

SINDECON-SP

“Don’t measure AI by its cost—measure it by the price you keep paying for inefficiency every day it isn’t deployed.”

Chris McGuin

Chris McGuin

Managing Director

GITEX AI ASIA

“GITEX AI Asia is where Asia’s digital ambition meets global opportunity—turning innovation into real-world impact at scale”.

From Fragmentation to Flow: Redesigning UX in Complex Industrial Systems

Madhav Marripati

Lead UI/UX Designer

Schreiber Foods

“Industrial UX fails when it tries to simplify reality. It succeeds when it helps humans operate within it.”

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