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Industrial AI & factory data
AI agents, digital twins, MES and the plumbing that moves machine data across a factory. Where manufacturing software is heading, and what it means for quality teams.
40 stories35 companiesLatest 10 November 2026
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October 2026
- CADDi raises $114 million Series D for manufacturing AICADDi
- Litmus Edge 4.4.0 adds Atlas Copco MTF 6000 torque data captureLitmus
- WSCAD's ELECTRIX OS drafts electrical designs from engineer-set objectivesWSCAD
- Arch Data Twin maps MES, SCADA and QMS data to one model by asset, product and timeArch Systems
- IFS Intelligence lets plant staff query live operational data and approve AI actionsIFS
- Litmus Data Catalog traces KPIs back to individual PLC tagsLitmus
- Spotfire 15.1 adds a natural-language assistant and wafer root-cause tools for engineersSpotfire
September 2026
- Rockwell Automation's AI maintenance copilot cuts factory downtime 33 percentRockwell Automation
- METTLER TOLEDO brings M50 R-Series metal detectors to North America at Pack ExpoMETTLER TOLEDO
- Caterpillar taps FieldAI's physical AI for autonomous factory inspectionsCaterpillar Inc.
- Xnovo deploys AI-powered 3D-CT battery inspection at BMW's Parsdorf plantXnovo Technology
- C-Infinity launches AutoAssembler v4 to convert CAD designs into assembly plansC-Infinity
- Nidec debuts AI-powered RoboCam gear cutting tool inspection system at IMTS 2026Nidec Machine Tool America
- Syspro launches Torque, an AI platform that logs every automated shop-floor decisionSyspro
- Dragonfly 3D World 2027 adds CT-based surface roughness measurementComet Technologies
- AIAG publishes CQI-38 guideline for auditing AI vision inspection systemsAIAG
August 2026
- Maguar Capital takes majority stake in QMS software maker ConSenseConSense
- Hexagon launches middleware to link ERP, MES and shop-floor systems without custom codeHexagon Manufacturing Intelligence
- Litmus launches free OPC Fusion tool to unlock trapped OPC DA plant dataLitmus
- Teradyne Robotics exec: AI models now control robot motion in real timeUniversal Robots
- SICK adds AI-powered inspection to its Nova 3D machine vision platformSICK
- Metrologic DCS ships AI copilots and CAD-free CMM programming in Metrolog V25, 3DCSMetrologic DCS
July 2026
June 2026
- Synera connects Materialise's Magics SDK to its AI agents for additive manufacturing build prepSynera
- Robotiq IQ generates palletizing workcells using AI and historical deployment dataRobotiq
- Novarc NovAI Autonomy skips pre-scanning with AI-driven seam trackingNovarc
- SpatialAnalyzer 2026.1 adds OPC UA client for closed-loop robotic inspectionHexagon
- Advantive acquires Insequence to expand automotive JIS and MES softwareAdvantive
May 2026
- Nikon launches the ECLIPSE LV100AMS, a one-click automated industrial microscopeNikon Metrology
- Litmus adds Snowpipe Streaming to Litmus Edge for direct OT-to-cloud ingestionLitmus
- Mitsubishi Electric cuts CNC machining errors 50 percent with edge digital twinMitsubishi Electric
- FANUC and Google bring Gemini AI agents to industrial robot cellsFANUC CORPORATION
- ABB's My Measurement Assistant+ targets 50 percent boost in first-time fix ratesABB