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CAT Machinery Solutions: Empowering Performance in Heavy-Duty Industrial Operations

CAT Machinery Solutions: Empowering Performance in Heavy-Duty Industrial Operations

When a project falls behind schedule, the reason is rarely a shortage of manpower. More often, it comes down to equipment — machines that break down, underperform, or simply aren't built for the job. This is exactly why so many contractors, miners, and industrial operators keep coming back to one name: CAT Machinery. Few brands have earned the same level...

How Plant Teams Can Reduce Delays in Maintenance Documentation

How Plant Teams Can Reduce Delays in Maintenance Documentation

Maintenance teams rely on inspection reports, work permits, equipment histories, calibration certificates and service records to make informed decisions. Yet in many plants, these documents are still managed through fragmented processes that involve handwritten forms, static PDFs, email attachments or inconsistent filing systems. The result is lost time, duplicated work and unnecessary delays in returning equipment to service.

Construction Machinery Trends: Automation, Electrification and Smart Technologies

Construction Machinery Trends: Automation, Electrification and Smart Technologies

The construction industry is quietly rewriting how it builds. Diesel engines are giving way to battery packs, operators are supervising machines instead of muscling them through every motion, and job sites are generating more data than most construction firms know what to do with.

Autonomous Mining Trucks: Revolutionizing Safety and Productivity in Harsh Terrains

Autonomous Mining Trucks: Revolutionizing Safety and Productivity in Harsh Terrains

Mining has always been one of the toughest industries on the planet. Workers face extreme heat, freezing cold, unstable ground, and machinery the size of small buildings — often in locations far from the nearest hospital. For decades, the industry accepted this risk as the cost of doing business. That's changing fast. Autonomous mining technology is now reshaping how ore,...

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...

STMicroelectronics Launches Secure ST54M Chip with Post-Quantum Cryptography

STMicroelectronics Launches Secure ST54M Chip with Post-Quantum Cryptography

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has introduced the ST54M, a secure mobile chip designed to help smartphone and personal electronics manufacturers meet upcoming quantum-ready security requirements while supporting a seamless

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.

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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FANUC Launches 5-Axis Integrated Technology Initiative to Enhance Complex Part Production

FANUC CORPORATION, the world's leading supplier of industrial robots and factory au...

Reveal Launches Powerful Agentic AI Suite Automating eDiscovery from Preservation to Case...

Reveal, the provider of integrated AI-native platforms spanning the eDiscovery and disp...

Honeywell Technologies Announces Leadership Updates for Process Technology and Building Au...

Honeywell Technologies (Nasdaq: HON) announced the appointment of Billal Hammoud as Pre...

UiPath Introduces UiPath Maestro Flow, Delivering Developer-First Orchestration for Coding...

UiPath, Inc. (NYSE: PATH), a global leader in business orchestration and automation, to...

Primax Tymphany Group Advances Intelligent Robotics and Automation with AI Sensor Fusion a...

Primax Tymphany Group is showcasing its Edge AI Sensor Fusion applications in robotics...

Whistic Launches Automation Orchestrator, Handing Vendor Assessments to a Coordinated Team...

Enabled together as Full AutoAssess, the agents move an assessment from trigger to exec...

Rockwell Automation Announces Indinvest LT Strengthens Industrial Cybersecurity Strategy...

Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world's largest company dedicated to industrial...

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XPENG robotics business raises over US$900 million at a post-money valuation of over US$...

XPeng Inc. a leading global Physical AI company, announced today that its robotics busines...

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Delta Showcases Embodied AI Dual-Arm Robot Platform and AI-Enhanced Production Line Digi...

Delta Electronics, Inc. ("Delta"), a global leader in power management and smart green sol...

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TIER IV collaborates with Renesas to build an open AI-native computing platform for SDVs...

TIER IV, the pioneering force behind open-source software for autonomous driving, is colla...

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Rockwell Automation Brings Thailand's Manufacturing Leaders Together at ROKLive Bangkok...

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Mouser Showcases Online Resource Center on Consumer Technology for Engineering Next-Gene...

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Tenders

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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