Industry 4.0 stories
Pharmaceutical leaders will weigh AI deployment risks against compliance and security demands at a summit drawing up to 400 executives in Hyderabad.
Businesses and workers can be paid to capture robot-training data in live workplaces, as the system targets India's growing physical AI market.
Manufacturers in Southeast Asia and India will gain local help with MES rollouts as the firms target faster deployments and factory modernisation.
Existing cameras at a remote Côte d'Ivoire healthcare project cut PPE breaches by 41.7% and danger-zone violations by 46.3% in three months.
Labour shortages and rising security costs are pushing businesses towards robots that can monitor large sites overnight and flag incidents to staff.
Most operators expect AI services to drive new revenue, but nearly half say optical network upgrades are critical to meet demand.
Fleet operators can now tap factory-fitted vehicle data from more than 20 brands without aftermarket hardware, cutting costs and installation work.
Stand-alone spending remains tiny, but the sector is set to more than triple as firms struggle to stitch together fragmented digital twin tools.
The change comes as the warehouse robotics firm expands deployments and secures USD $20 million more to speed product growth and hiring.
The move would give TCS a bigger German footprint and Porsche a partner to industrialise AI across manufacturing, engineering and customer service.
The industrial software group is bringing in a senior Bentley Systems executive as it reshapes commercial leadership ahead of an October 2026 handover.
The deal gives TCS a larger foothold in Germany and a five-year AI partnership with Porsche, pending regulatory approval.
The tie-up will give Porsche wider AI support across manufacturing and engineering, while TCS gains a German consulting base subject to approval.
Six new partnerships and a cross-border pouch cell debut in Sepang as ASEAN moves to turn battery research into production.
The repositioning aims to win over energy-hungry manufacturers and data centres by promising real-time savings without replacing existing systems.
Trusted product data is becoming the key test for AI adoption, with 66% of manufacturers saying systems fail without it.
Tenants at BeFa Industrial Estate will gain wider fibre access as the site races to meet demand from AI, cloud and data centre operators.
Demand for engineers who can link AI to industrial systems is rising as manufacturers race to automate safely and stay competitive.
Manufacturers supplying banks and other regulated firms face tougher contract demands on resilience, cyber risk and continuity as CPS 230 beds in.
Advanced chip makers are being pushed towards earlier fault tracing as complex packaging makes internal defects harder to spot with surface checks alone.