【2025 Industrial Automation News】Focus on Industrial Automation News

2. Emerson: Released results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2025 and annual outlook. Recently, Emerson disclosed the results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2025: net sales amounted to approximately $4.432 billion (a 1% increase year-on-year), with core sales rising by 2%； Pre-tax earnings were $629 million (profit margin of 14.2%), while adjusted EBITA amounted to $1.24 billion (profit margin of 28%) ； Both GAAP and adjusted earnings per share increased by 9% year-on-year, while free cash flow was $738 million (an increase of 14%).

3. Rockwell: Launches joint development of intelligent drive product series with Guanying Technology. Recently, Rockwell Automation and Guanying Technology Group officially signed an agreement to initiate a joint development project for the CGBOX-AI intelligent drive product series. This partnership will leverage the strengths of both parties, using the CGBOX-AI intelligent drive product series to enable the intelligent upgrading of key equipment in various industries. It will provide innovative solutions for the design, development, and manufacturing of intelligent equipment in these industries, thereby helping to create leading enterprises in the \"AI + manufacturing\" sector that can have an international impact.

4. Siemens: Acquisition of Excellicon Company Recently, Siemens announced the acquisition of Excellicon Company, integrating its software for developing, verifying, and managing timing constraints into Siemens’ EDA product portfolio. This acquisition will help Siemens offer innovative approaches in the areas of implementation and verification processes, enabling System-on-Chip (SoC) designers to optimize power consumption, performance, and area (PPA), accelerate design speeds, improve the accuracy of functional and structural constraints, enhance production efficiency, and address key gaps in current workflows.

5. ABB: Acquiring BrightLoop to advance its electrification strategy. Recently, ABB announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire BrightLoop, a French company specializing in advanced power electronics innovations, in order to accelerate its electrification strategy in the fields of industrial transportation and ship propulsion. This acquisition will enhance ABB’s ability to provide compact, robust, and intelligent power conversion systems for the most demanding applications, ranging from construction and mining equipment to electric ferries and marine vessels.

6. Schneider Electric: Establishment of the EcoFit™ Industrial Automation Adaptation and Transformation Center. Recently, Schneider Electric set up the EcoFit™ Industrial Automation Adaptation and Transformation Center to create a comprehensive service chain for medium/voltage and low-voltage frequency converters as well as PLCs, offering customized transformation solutions. The center possesses four key capabilities: innovative R&D, flexible customization, comprehensive coverage, and digital empowerment, which help address the challenges faced in corporate transformation. This move represents a milestone in the advancement of its \"China-centered\" strategy, aiming to promote the digital transformation of industry and a shift toward green and low-carbon development, while unlocking the potential of a trillion-dollar market for equipment upgrades.

7. Chint Group: Included in Fortune China’s ESG Impact List for 2025. Recently, thanks to its outstanding performance in the field of sustainable development, Chint was successfully included in Fortune China’s ESG Impact List for 2025. Over the past 40-plus years, Chint has consistently integrated sustainable development into its actual business operations, embedding it within its production processes. Through green practices, it drives a low-carbon transformation and creates tangible impacts in terms of sustainability.

8. Mitsubishi Electric: Invests in an American startup specializing in space solar cells. Recently, Mitsubishi Electric announced that it would invest in the American startup Solestial through its ME Innovation Fund; this is the tenth investment made by this fund. Solestial focuses on the development of silicon heterojunction solar cells for space applications, offering advantages such as strong radiation resistance, low cost, fast delivery, and light weight. With the surge in the deployment of near-Earth orbit satellites, Mitsubishi Electric aims to enhance the competitiveness of its aerospace business through this partnership; the two parties will work together to advance technologies in the aerospace industry.

9. Rockwell: Launches joint development of intelligent drive product series with Guanying Technology. Recently, Rockwell Automation and Guanying Technology Group officially signed an agreement to initiate a joint development project for the CGBOX-AI intelligent drive product series. This partnership will leverage the strengths of both parties, using the CGBOX-AI intelligent drive product series to enable the intelligent upgrading of key equipment in various industries. It will provide innovative solutions for the design, development, and manufacturing of intelligent equipment in these industries, thereby helping to create leading enterprises in the \"AI + manufacturing\" sector that can have an international impact.

10. Inmenda: Helping BASF build the world’s largest industrial heat pump. Recently, Inmenda received a key order from PILLER Blowers & Compressors GmbH. This order includes 11 water-cooled HV M high-voltage motors and GH180HC medium-voltage frequency converters, which will provide essential power support for BASF’s world’s largest industrial heat pump system located at its headquarters in Ludwigshafen.

11. Zhongkong Technology: Held an event to recruit channel partners for industrial AI. Recently, Zhongkong Technology successfully organized the \"Sharing Success in Industrial AI – Creating a New Digital Era\" event to recruit channel partners. Representatives from over 100 partner companies, including UFIDA Network and Hua Yi Information, gathered together to explore new opportunities for industrial digital transformation, establish a collaborative ecosystem for the development of industrial AI, and work together to open up new prospects in this field.