IIoT World tracks industrial cybersecurity conferences, summits, and virtual events across the OT security landscape. This guide covers the major ICS cybersecurity events for 2026 and 2027, including virtual options for security professionals who cannot travel. Events range from free virtual conferences to multi-day in-person summits, covering ransomware defense, zero trust for OT, IEC 62443 […]
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At an IIoT World Energy Day 2026 panel on scalable edge solutions for modern grids, Andrew Foster of IOTech Systems, Cody Falcon of ABB, Brenna Wood of EDF Power Solutions North America, and Janko Isidorovic of Fluence Energy discussed what distributed energy resource fleets require before edge AI can produce useful results. The panel, moderated […]
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At an IIoT World Manufacturing Day panel on data sovereignty and industrial AI, Peter Sorowka of Cybus and leaders from MaibornWolff, SCHUNK, and Schwarz Digits outlined how competitive advantage in manufacturing is forming well before AI reaches full deployment. Many manufacturers are waiting for clearer AI winners, the right platform, the right models, the right […]
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ABB resolves 80% of measurement device faults through an AI copilot, without a support call. HighByte compressed Alcon’s one-year plant-wide digital transformation to less than one month. InfluxData and Litmus take manufacturers from three sites to 300, with positive ROI in 60 to 90 days. Cybus reports 9% less downtime and 23% lower cloud costs […]
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During the “Edge AI: Driving Smarter Machine Health Monitoring for Energy Infrastructure” panel at IIoT World Energy Day 2026, poll results showed that most energy operators are just beginning to explore AI for asset monitoring. Some have completed a first deployment, but only a small percentage have scaled these solutions across multiple assets or sites. […]
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IIoT World recorded video interviews with leaders from Siemens, ABB, Cybus, HighByte, InfluxData, Coreflux, TwinThread, GlobalLogic (Hitachi Group), NEURA Robotics, Skkynet, Tronics Microsystems (TDK Group), and Orange Business at Hannover Messe 2026 (April 20-24, Hannover, Germany, 130,000+ attendees, 4,000 exhibitors). This page collects every article and video from the show floor. New interviews continue publishing […]
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Data breaches in the manufacturing industry rose 89% year over year, reaching 1,607 confirmed cases in 2025 compared to 849 in 2024, according to Verizon’s DBIR Report. The driver is the increasing connection between IT and OT systems. Files that once stayed within isolated networks, such as CAD designs, predictive maintenance logs, and supplier updates, […]
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For two decades, manufacturers have tried to make analytics, machine learning, and AI work with industrial data, and for most of that time the bottleneck had nothing to do with the technology itself. It was the data layer. This IIoT World article, based on a pre-Hannover Messe 2026 interview with Torey Penrod-Cambra (VP Marketing, HighByte), […]
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A battery cell is roughly the size of a cell phone. A battery enclosure is the size of a shipping container. A single site can have thousands of those containers, and for each individual cell inside, operators need state of charge and state of health readings every one to 10 seconds, or even faster during […]
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A German automotive manufacturer with 37,000 employees and 3 production sites used to stop the line for up to three hours every time it needed a configuration update. Each update cost between €280,000 and €1,700,000. The risk was so high that updates only happened twice a year, during production holidays. Today, the same manufacturer deploys […]
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Sensor origin has never been a line item on factory procurement specs. In this IIoT World article, Dr. Antoine Filipe (Tronics Microsystems, TDK Group) explains the strategic shift driving sensor procurement decisions in manufacturing. Quality and price decided everything. According to Dr. Antoine Filipe, CTO of Tronics Microsystems, a TDK Group Company, that is changing. […]
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