Manufacturing & Industrial Technology

Delray Beach – October 28, 2026 -- The global machine safety market will grow from USD 6.03 billion in 2026 to USD 8.78 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 6.4%, according to a MarketsandMarkets forecast.

Automation and Industry 4.0 raise machinery complexity and workplace risk

MarketsandMarkets attributes the growth to rapid adoption of automation and Industry 4.0 technologies. These increase machinery complexity and workplace risks, driving demand for safety PLCs and presence detection sensors. Manufacturers are also investing in IoT-enabled solutions for predictive analytics and for reducing downtime.

FREMONT – October 28, 2026 -- Velo3D, Inc. (Nasdaq: VELO) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results after the U.S. market close on November 10, 2026, the metal additive manufacturing company said.

Velo3D schedules its earnings call for 2 p.m. Pacific on results day

Management will discuss the results on a conference call and webcast at 2 p.m. Pacific Time (5 p.m. Eastern Time) on November 10. U.S. participants can dial 877-704-2771, and international callers can use 201-689-8732. Callers should ask to be joined to the Velo3D call.

Velo3D will post the earnings release and presentation before the call begins

The live webcast will be available on the Events page of the Investor Relations section of the company's website. Velo3D will publish the earnings press release and the accompanying presentation there before the call starts.

Berlin – October 28, 2026 -- Germany's federal employers' association for the chemical industry (BAVC) will bring Labor Minister Alexander Schweitzer, IGBCE union chief Michael Vassiliadis and FDP leader Wolfgang Kubicki together on November 4, 2026 to debate how the chemical-pharmaceutical sector can regain competitiveness.

Three-hour ChemieArbeitgeberTag runs from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at AXICA Berlin

The 2026 ChemieArbeitgeberTag takes place on Wednesday, November 4, at the AXICA Congress and Conference Center, Pariser Platz 3, in Berlin. BAVC President Katja Scharpwinkel leads the discussions under the motto of regaining competitiveness and charting paths forward.

The agenda centers on three goals: restoring competitiveness, enabling investment and strengthening Germany as an industrial location over the long term. BAVC describes the sector's current environment as challenging and economically uncertain.

MILWAUKEE – October 28, 2026 -- Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) will present ten product groups spanning controllers, I/O, drives, software, AI and cybersecurity at Automation Fair 2026, expanding its showcase for industrial manufacturers.

Matheus Bulho, senior vice president, software & control, said production systems must balance growth, workforce challenges and cybersecurity threats while adapting faster. He said the company is combining hardware, software and industrial intelligence to give customers tools "to move faster, adapt with confidence."

LogixEdge controller brings AI workloads to the control layer

The LogixEdge Controller adds new form factors and integrates IT and OT workloads, including AI workloads that enable autonomous control. The CompactLogix 5390 Controller targets performance, security and scalability in modern production environments.

Global – October 28, 2026 -- Neither MQTT retained messages nor persistent sessions can guarantee complete production history, so industrial operators who need every measurement must add application-level buffering and a historian, according to an engineering analysis of the OASIS MQTT 5.0 specification.

Retained messages deliver the latest state to new subscribers

A retained message gives a subscriber the last retained value on a topic when it subscribes. In the example of a packaging line publishing to plant/line2/packer/status, a new maintenance display receives the retained RUNNING state without waiting for the next live publication, provided the message is still available and the subscription's retain-handling settings permit delivery.

Norwalk, Conn. – October 27, 2026 -- Xerox introduced three color printer and multifunction printer lines, the Xerox C240/C245, C255a and C300/C303a/C305ae. They are the first hardware launched under the unified Xerox brand since the company's integration with Lexmark.

Xerox now describes itself as a single technology company spanning print, IT infrastructure and intelligent digital services. The new brand identity, including a refreshed logo, accompanies the launch. The three lines are the first products to bring the combined Xerox-Lexmark portfolio to market.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Industrial teams can locate missing historian records by tracing one test message across five boundaries: broker receipt, subscriber receipt, parsing, database write and query. The approach comes from troubleshooting guidance on TDengine's MQTT ingestion, which warns that a live broker feed or a connected publisher proves only part of the chain.

One tagged test message anchors the diagnosis

Engineers should publish a single message for one equipment tag through the approved production path, such as plant/line2/pump07/pressure. They should log the exact topic, payload bytes, broker timestamp, publisher identity, destination table and intended source timestamp. Each test needs a fresh timestamp, because identical timestamps can make a successful write indistinguishable from an earlier one.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Even QoS 2's exactly-once delivery covers only one MQTT sender-receiver flow, not the subscriber's database transaction, so an MQTT broker cannot serve as an industrial historian. A broker moves messages between publishers and subscribers. A historian keeps time-indexed records that engineers can query, trend and aggregate later.

Broker retention mechanisms fall short of historical storage

A retained message is only the current message for a topic, and a new one normally replaces the prior state. A persistent session preserves subscriptions and eligible queued messages for an offline client. Session expiry, broker capacity, message expiry and administrative policy can all limit what remains.

Broker persistence protects broker state across restarts. It does not define table schemas, engineering timestamps, multi-year retention, SQL queries, aggregates or audit-ready change history.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- An MQTT message is only a topic plus a payload, so a usable historian record needs four additions: stable equipment identity, typed measurements, a trustworthy timestamp and a schema that survives device and site growth. Engineers should settle these before configuring ingestion into TDengine TSDB Enterprise. Skipping that step can produce technically successful writes that create tables that are hard to query, compare or maintain.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- TDengine is framing Industrial AI as decision support built on three layers (data, context and analysis) rather than as autonomous plant control, with accountability remaining with engineers and operators.

Industrial AI applies standard methods to physical operations

The approach uses machine learning, computer vision and generative AI on data from equipment, sensors, control systems, operational records and engineering documents. What makes an application industrial is the work it supports: pumps, compressors, production lines, energy systems and material flows. Enterprise AI, by contrast, mostly handles digital workflows such as drafting documents or summarizing meetings.