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Emerson has officially completed its acquisition of National Instruments (NI), at an equity value of $8.2 billion. NI will become a new Test and Measurement business segment within Emerson's Software and Control group. Emerson indicated that it expects the addition of NI to boost...

One way to asses what test and measurement companies think is coming next in terms of needed technologies and capabilities is to look at the ways in which they have been expanding their portfolios with new automation and analytics offerings. They are also increasingly...

Emerson is 'diversifying ... into test and measurement automation' National Instruments, which said in January that it was exploring its options for a sale, is set to be acquired by industrial conglomerate Emerson for $2 billion, or $60 per share. Emerson already owns 2% of...

The number of active IoT devices for cold chain tracking reached 4.1 million worldwide in 2021, according to Berg Insight. The calculation measures refrigerated cargo and cargo carrying units, including trailers, intermodal containers, rail freight wagons, air cargo containers, cargo boxes and pallets. The...

About $32 billion will be spent on industrial IoT platforms for smart manufacturing by 2025, and the number of industrial AR connections will surge by 57 percent per year in the period to 20.9 million in 2025. So says market advisory firm ABI Research,...

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 in recent research into the leading digital factory platforms. ThingWorx scored highest for augmented reality...

Many of the sensors used in IoT are battery-powered and organized into mesh networks. Set to transmit anywhere from every few seconds to every few hours. They can run for years before needing a battery replacement, but eventually they do. And if there are...

Dell dedicated IoT unit claims 'industry's broadest" internet of things solution portfolio Armed with results from several sweeping internet of things (IoT) projects, Dell Technologies, in a new report, sees a future totally reshaped by the combination of software, big data, compute power and smart,...

Americans toss $165 billion worth of food into the trash each year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. That comes out to more than $2,000 per family. Some of that value can be reclaimed by recycling food waste into energy. Industrial giant Emerson has...

Mike Boudreaux, director of connected services at Emerson, and Andy Rhodes, VP and GM of IoT at Dell, spoke at our studio during an Austin IIoT meetup group session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQ4JasvZjU&feature=youtu.be The session began with a general discussion of where the two companies see themselves within the industrial...

Oil and gas refinery leakage costs hundreds of thousands One of the largest oil and gas refineries in the world, working with various types of crude oil and manufacturing various grades of fuel from motor gasoline to aviation turbine fuel (ATF), needed Emerson's help to fix leakage....