FluentHMI-Studio is a C++ and Qt 6 desktop app where you drag widgets onto a screen and bind them to serial, TCP or MQTT data, including Modbus RTU and TCP. It exports a standalone operator app in under a second with no compiler. A free way to mock up an operator screen for a skid or test bench.
For controls techs and hardware engineers building quick operator screens.
GOFish is University of Maryland research code that reconstructs a photo-real 3D scene from fisheye imagery and pairs it with an aligned mesh for collisions in a robot simulator. It is early research code with no license stated. The direction matters for plant digital twins built from a camera walk-through.
For digital twin and robotics teams.
IndustryWeek editors Dennis Scimeca and Scott Achelpohl discuss the announcements and trends from the IFS Unleashed conference, where industrial AI dominated. It is a quick listen on where ERP and asset software vendors are taking agents. It covers a vendor's own event.
Michael Job notes Eaton, Schneider and Ecolab spent about $15 billion buying liquid-cooling makers, led by Eaton's $9.5 billion Boyd Thermal deal, yet none of their brands made Nvidia's first qualified cooling list. He argues hyperscaler-written specs decide who wins orders. If you buy the gear, write the spec version into design docs and ask bidders which version they built to.