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Private equity firm TPG is to buy Kepware and ThingWorx from PTC for up to $725 million. It marks a final shift in PTC’s Industry 4.0 strategy, and a tightening …

Honeywell has acquired SparkMeter’s utility platforms in a tuck-in deal to expand its smart energy software, aligning with its strategy of spinning off legacy units while bolstering digital energy-transition capabilities. …

US industrial giant Honeywell International has announced it will split into three standalone businesses, starting with the spin-off of its Advanced Materials business in late 2025 or early 2026, as …

Belgium-based advanced analytics firm TrendMiner, part of German software vendor Software AG, has released an upgraded production client for industrial analytics in process manufacturing industries. The new TrendMiner release – …

Lufthansa Technik, which has arguably set down the definitive private 5G deployment in the Industry 40 sector, has extended its private 5G network in Hamburg, Germany, to a second aircraft …

US-based IoT provider Ubicquia has entered a new $25 million debt and working capital facility with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The facility will be used to accelerate growth, facilitate larger …

Additive manufacturing is a transformative approach to industrial production that enables the creation of lighter, stronger parts and systems

Note, this article is continued from a previous post, entitled ‘Software AG, StarHub and the blueprint for carrier-led industrial private 5G’, available here. Bernd Gross, chief technology officer at Software …

Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq, a star of industrial IoT on the venture capital scene, is targeting the power and utilities, oil and gas, semiconductor, chemical, and process manufacturing industries, …

A new $600 million round of funding by the US Department of Defense (DOD) is being made available for testing military-grade and industrial-grade 5G. The investment will go into smart …

A single cloud-based software installation can monitor a 100-bed, multi-site ICU GE Healthcare is collaborating with Microsoft to launch a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software for health systems, and hospitals will only need …

1 | Anglo American, Capcoal coal mine, Queensland, Australia British mining company Anglo American has just started work in Australia on what it envisions as “one of the most technologically …

GE lighting division Current has paired up with UK industrial IoT company IMS Evolve on an IoT solution for making energy savings in cold chain storage for clients in the …

This article is the third instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …

This article is the second instalment in a series taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The …

This article is taken from a longer report, Smart manufacturing: asset management, predictive maintenance, dynamic scheduling and other use cases, from August 2018. The report tells the story of smart …

  The new, independent firm will combine GE Digital’s IIoT solutions and GE Power Digital and Grid Software Solutions businesses   GE announced plans to establish a new, independent company …

The City of San Diego has extended its smart street lighting network with another 1,000 sensor nodes, and new applications for parking, traffic and public safety. San Diego has worked …

Investor confidence in the burgeoning industrial ‘internet-of-things’ (IIoT) market is up, reckon industry commentators. A slew of enterprise funds and venture capital has been staked on the sector’s growth in …

The market’s response to reports of the impending sale of GE Digital combined both regret, that the company’s barnstorming run as a digital-change agent is potentially over, and a distinct …

A new investigation by analyst house ABI Research has ranked the top smart manufacturing platforms, and placed PTC’s ThingWorx top of the pile. PTC has ranked at the top consistently …

General Electric (GE) is looking for a buyer for its GE Digital business, following revenue losses. However, its chief executive has moved to distance the company from reports its broader …

Nokia is to offer GE’s CityIQ platform technology to municipalities in Canada to repurpose outdoor street lighting into digital infrastructure, and help with common challenges like parking and traffic management, …

GE Digital will integrate its Predix portfolio with Microsoft Azure’s cloud capabilities, and standardise its Predix solutions on Microsoft Azure, it has announced. GE and Microsoft said they will also …

The move to a ‘lights-out’ factory has already begun, but the developing transition requires an overhaul of industrial facilities, equipment, systems and people if it is to go the distance. …