CAD model review on the phone.

Engineers, reviewers, and suppliers explore CAD models, PMI, and metadata on a phone or tablet.

Tech Soft 3D, the provider of engineering software development toolkits and industrial applications, has released SpinFire Insight for Mobile, a free companion app to its SpinFire Insight desktop viewer, now available on iOS and Android. 

Design review without a desk.
Engineering teams reviewing 3D models are typically tied to a workstation. Suppliers, quality staff, and project managers who need to check a design, confirm manufacturing information, or answer a question about a part often have to wait until someone with desktop access is available. This slows down reviews and adds friction to communication across distributed teams.

The new SpinFire Insight for Mobile gives teams the benefits of 3D CAD visualization wherever they may be. The app opens standard 3D formats, including STEP, IGES, and PRC, along with publishing formats 3D PDF and U3D, and reads ACT3D files created in the desktop version of SpinFire Insight. Users can navigate models with touch controls, apply standard views, switch between rendering modes, inspect part metadata, and access CAD views and PMI (Product Manufacturing Information) directly from a phone or tablet.

"Engineering data has always lived on a computer, but the questions about it don't wait for someone to sit down at a workstation," said Lionel Vieilly, Senior Product Manager - Industrial Applications. "SpinFire Insight for Mobile puts that data in people's pockets, so a supplier, a reviewer, or a project manager can pull up a model, check a dimension, or confirm a manufacturing note the moment it comes up, not hours later. It’s a small shift with a big impact on team efficiency and speed "

Fitting into existing engineering workflows.
The app is designed for quick, on-the-go review rather than replacing desktop workflows. For advanced design review, measurement, markups, or major CAD formats such as CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, NX, Creo, and Inventor, SpinFire Insight for Desktop remains the primary tool. SpinFire Insight for Mobile is intended to sit alongside it, giving teams a way to check model data, respond to a question, or review PMI when they are away from their workstation, without requiring a full CAD license or desktop session.

By making CAD data accessible from a phone or tablet, SpinFire Insight for Mobile reduces the delay between a question being raised and a model being reviewed. Technical, suppliers, and non-technical stakeholders alike can inspect geometry, manufacturing information, and metadata wherever the work takes them, supporting faster communication and fewer bottlenecks in distributed engineering and manufacturing organisations.

The app is available now as a free download on the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android.

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Asset condition assessment streamlined.

Thermal imaging cameras to bring AI-driven asset condition assessment directly onto the camera.

Flir has announced the worldwide availability of the MentorLens® app by MentorAPM on its professional-grade iXX-Series thermal imaging cameras, bringing AI-driven asset condition assessment directly onto the camera. Developed by MentorAPM, a provider of asset performance management software for critical infrastructure, the app allows maintenance and reliability teams to capture nameplate, condition and thermal imagery on a single device and send it straight to the asset record, without the file transfers and manual data entry that have long slowed condition monitoring programs.*

In industrial operations, the value of a thermal inspection is determined less by the image itself than by what happens to it afterward. Files are moved from an SD card to a laptop, thermal metadata is altered or lost along the way, and findings end up in a folder rather than in the system where maintenance work is actually planned. Running natively on the iXX-Series, the MentorLens app removes that handoff. Images upload from the camera directly to the asset record with their thermal data intact, and technicians can create new assets or update existing ones without leaving the camera. All Flir imaging and hardware controls remain available, including MSX, palette selection, lamp and laser, so the same device that captures the thermogram also captures the nameplate photo and the condition photo.

Once the images are synced, MentorLens processes them automatically. Nameplate and tag data is transcribed into standard asset attributes, visual imagery is scored for condition, and thermal imagery is measured against operating baselines taken from the asset's own nameplate data or from manufacturer manuals. Reports return observed anomalies, temperature readings and recommended actions, and because previous assessments for the same asset are carried into the analysis, degradation is tracked across inspections rather than judged one image at a time.

“Customers don't need more inspection data. They need actionable information that helps them prevent downtime and make better maintenance decisions," said John Gould, Sr. Director of Strategic Business Development, FLIR. "With MentorAPM integrated into the iXX-Series workflow, thermal findings become part of a broader asset health picture. Data is automatically evaluated against previous conditions and delivered to the teams responsible for maintenance planning, enabling earlier intervention and more effective predictive maintenance programs.”

For the wider organisation, the benefits go beyond the inspection itself. Condition and thermal results feed the MentorLens platform, where rules can automatically trigger preventive work orders and where condition history, work history and SCADA events are held against the same asset record. Reports are exported as standardised PDFs, and the underlying data can be pushed by API into an existing CMMS or EAM system, so operators are not obliged to change their system of record in order to benefit. Every AI-assisted workflow keeps a human in the loop, with a person confirming what is committed against the asset.

“For most operators the hardest part of asset management is still the most basic one, which is knowing what you own and what condition it is in,” added Tacoma Zach, CEO of MentorAPM. “Putting our app on the iXX-Series means high-quality thermal data now enters that picture at the point of capture, from the same technician and the same device. In plants where downtime is measured in millions of dollars an hour, the payback on that is very quick.”

First proven in water and wastewater utilities, the combined solution is now being adopted in manufacturing, metals, and oil and gas, where thermographic inspection has typically been outsourced to specialist contractors at considerable expense. MentorAPM reports that customers using MentorLens achieve up to 10x faster field data collection and cost savings of more than 75 percent against conventional condition assessment methods. The MentorLens app is available worldwide now for Flir iXX-Series users with a MentorAPM subscription.

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* Both companies will present the integration at the SMRP 34th Annual Conference, held 28 September to 1 October 2026 at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh (NC USA). Tacoma Zach, CEO of MentorAPM, leads an Innovation Lab session titled "From Camera to Asset Intelligence: AI Workflows for Reliability Teams" on Tuesday 29 September, 1:15 to 2:15 PM ET, in Innovation Lab #3. The session walks through practical workflows using MentorLens with Flir thermal cameras to capture equipment information, analyse visual and thermal conditions and generate structured asset intelligence automatically. John Gould of Teledyne FLIR joins the session to discuss the iXX-Series.

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Flow calibration in Middle East.

The announcement signals company's expanding automation and industrial technology footprint across the Middle East and Africa.

Emerson has announced plans to build the Emerson Middle East & Africa Service Center, a new automation solutions service and operations centre, in the Umm Alhoul Free Zone. The facility will expand Emerson’s local capabilities for customers in Qatar and across the Middle East and Africa. It will include the region’s first certified in-country flow calibration lab, along with other critical automation technologies designed to help customers optimise operations, reduce turnaround time, minimise costs and accelerate project timelines.

Emerson's Judson Duncan (left), group president, global sales, signs the agreement with Qatar Free Zones Authority's Chief Executive Officer, H.E. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Hamad Bin Faisal Al-Thani.

“This new investment reflects Emerson’s strategic commitment to accelerating innovation in Qatar and supporting the Middle East’s most critical operations,” said Judson Duncan, group president of Global Sales at Emerson. “Our additional capabilities will enable customers to operate with greater agility, reliability and cost efficiency.”

Strategic investment aligned with Qatar National Vision 2030.
The new 3,500-square-metre facility reinforces Emerson’s expanding industrial technology presence in the region and advances Qatar National Vision 2030 objectives around economic growth and diversification. The new site will add to the existing footprint of manufacturing, service and distribution locations in the Middle East across Saudi Arabia and UAE along with a broad service network of Emerson accredited service partners in the region.

New capabilities for Qatar.
In addition to being equipped to calibrate large-size flow meters for high-pressure and high-volume operations, the Qatar facility will feature:

• Measurement instrumentation solutions and skid training systems
• Off-the-shelf inventory and spare parts distribution
• A training and experience centre for customer operations teams
• Staging and integration services for distributed control systems

The facility is planned to open in phases: control systems staging and measurement solutions services, spares inventory and the training centre will open in December 2026 with the certified flow calibration lab opening in early 2027.

The announcement was formalised at a signing ceremony on the sidelines of Qatar Economic Forum (QEF) in New York City with Qatar Free Zone dignitaries, including Sheikh Mohammed Bin Hamad Bin Faisal Al-Thani, chief executive officer, Qatar Free Zones Authority, and Sheikh Faisal bin Thani bin Faisal Al-Thani, minister of commerce and industry and chairman of Qatar Free Zones Authority.

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A new cybersecurity member.

DeNexus has officially joined the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance (ISAGCA), demonstrating its commitment to advancing operational (OT) cybersecurity through the ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards.

Created by the International Sociey of Automation (ISA), the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance is a collaborative forum focused on strengthening OT cybersecurity through education, knowledge sharing and industry collaboration. Leveraging the widely used ISA/IEC 62443 standards, ISAGCA works to expand cybersecurity expertise, openly share knowledge and resources and protect the OT cybersecurity worldwide community.

DeNexus delivers an evidence-based solution for OT industrial stakeholders to gain visibility into each facility’s cyber exposure, calculate the probability and financial impact of potential cyber incidents and prioritize risk mitigation based on ROI or other KPIs. By joining ISAGCA, the company underscores its commitment to supporting standards-driven security practices across the OT lifecycle from system design and integration to operations and maintenance.

DeNexus founder and CEO Jose M. Seara spoke at the ISA OT Cybersecurity Summit in Prague (CZ) in June 2026, leading a session titled “OT Cyber Insurance and Risk Transfer: Right-Sizing Coverage Using Evidence, Not Guesswork.” Based on interest, he also conducted an encore presentation on the topic via webinar in September. Through ISAGCA membership, DeNexus will collaborate with global industry leaders to accelerate awareness, adoption and implementation of the ISA/IEC 62443 standards framework.

“This is a significant moment for the ISAGCA community,” said Michelle Ritterskamp, ISAGCA program coordinator. “DeNexus brings a deep OT technical experience and a desire to incorporate ISA/IEC 62443 into their business. ISAGCA staff would like to thank DeNexus for the excellent collaboration on programs already, and we look forward to further sharing DeNexus’ expertise in future initiatives.” 

"Industrial cyber risk has been invisible to the people who carry it — boards, CFOs and the markets that could underwrite it,” Seara said. “That's the problem I started DeNexus to solve, and it's the same problem ISA/IEC 62443 addresses from the standards side. A common standard for how OT security is designed and assessed is what makes risk assessable in the first place. And once risk can be assessed, it can be quantified, mitigated and transferred. That's the chain: ISA/IEC 62443 gives the industry a shared language for control, and our platform turns that control state into a financial number a board can govern by and an underwriter can price against. Joining ISAGCA puts us alongside the organizations building that foundation. Our mission is to make industrial cyber risk quantifiable for boards, investors and the risk transfer market — and standards are what make that possible at scale."

Automation Summit - Prague (June 2026)

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Artificial intelligence assisted automation.

It has just been announced that the TrustInSoft Analyzer (TISA) 26.10 is being released at the end of next month (October 2026). The new version introduces expanded Ai-assisted automation to significantly reduce the engineering effort required to set up formal analysis, together with enhanced MC/DC (Modified Condition/Decision Coverage) capabilities designed to help safety-critical software teams reach full coverage in fewer steps.

“With TISA 26.10, we combine the power of AI automation with the rigor of formal verification to make exhaustive software verification faster and easier to deploy at scale,” said Caroline Guillaume, CEO of TrustInSoft. “AI automates the engineering work required to set up the analysis, while TrustInSoft Analyzer delivers the mathematical guarantees—enabling teams to verify more C, C++ and Rust code with significantly less manual effort.”

AI-assisted analysis: from code to exhaustive verification faster.
TISA 26.10 expands Ai-assisted automation directly within the TrustInSoft Analyzer interface. Engineering teams can use an Ai coding agent to automate key steps required to prepare and configure an analysis campaign, while following its progress and reviewing results directly in TISA.

The Ai assists with the engineering work surrounding the analysis.
TrustInSoft Analyzer performs the verification itself. Its sound formal analysis explores the possible behaviors within the defined analysis scope and assumptions, providing mathematical guarantees about the absence of targeted classes of runtime errors and undefined behaviors.

This separation combines the productivity of Ai with the rigor and auditability of formal methods. By reducing repetitive setup and configuration work, teams can get verification results faster and apply exhaustive analysis to larger portions of their software.

MC/DC coverage: reach full coverage in fewer steps.
TISA 26.10 also comes with a higher degree of automation in MC/DC coverage, helping teams identify and close coverage gaps more efficiently, and generating certification-oriented reports and traceability.

Rather than building coverage one test at a time, TrustInSoft Analyzer can use formal analysis to reason over ranges of possible inputs in a single analysis. The resulting truth-table-based view shows which combinations contributing to MC/DC have been covered and which remain to be reached. Each reported reachable combination corresponds to a feasible program execution. When gaps remain, engineers can focus additional analyses specifically on the missing conditions rather than iteratively building coverage one test at a time. The result is a more systematic path to full MC/DC coverage, with detailed reporting and traceability to support verification activities. This is particularly relevant for teams developing safety-critical software under standards such as ISO 26262 ASIL D.

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Shutter sensors for machine vision.

Nexora™ is a new family of CMOS image sensors from Teledyne e2v, that delivers high sensitivity, high-speed imaging and low power consumption for demanding machine vision applications.

Rafael Romay, President of Teledyne Vision Solutions, said: “With Nexora, we focused on giving camera manufacturers a new platform that balances image quality, speed and integration simplicity. The result is a sensor family that can support a wide range of current and emerging machine vision applications.”

Available in 12 MP (4,096 by 3,072) and 16 MP (4,096 by 4,096) resolutions, in both monochrome and color versions, Nexora is designed for applications that require sharp images at very high speeds. These include high-resolution machine vision, intelligent traffic systems, and outdoor surveillance.

At the heart of Nexora is Teledyne e2v’s proprietary backside-illuminated (BSI) pixel technology. By positioning the photodiode closer to the incoming light and maximizing the light-sensitive area of each pixel, the sensor achieves higher light-collection efficiency than conventional front-side illuminated (FSI) architectures. This results in quantum efficiency (QE) of up to 73% at 550 nm and 15% at 940 nm, improving performance in challenging lighting conditions and near-infrared applications.

The Nexora family also features Teledyne e2v’s 3D-stacked sensor architecture, which integrates multiple functions within a compact, multilayer structure. This approach increases design flexibility while helping camera manufacturers develop smaller, higher-performance imaging systems.

It incorporates a versatile LVDS interface that is compatible with a wide range of FPGAs and image signal processors. It is housed in a compact 23 by 21.5 mm package that is compatible with 29 by 29 mm² cameras and standard C-mount optics.

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Cracking glass transport racks transportation.

Digital rack management provides transparency into inventories, availability and circulation cycles for the glass and window industry.

Transport racks are an essential part of production and delivery at Adamer Glas. Once the racks were located at customer sites or other locations, however, the company lacked a reliable overview of their current locations. With the BOX ID system, the glass manufacturer has digitalised its rack management and achieved measurable improvements. More than 400 transport racks are now managed transparently, racks return 15% faster, and the reduced need for new racks saves around €30,000 per year.

Excel spreadsheets made rack management more difficult.
Christian Adamer GmbH processes fire-resistant glass, safety glass, curved glass and profiled glass, among other products. Special racks are required for safe transportation and circulate between the company’s premises, customers and other locations. They were previously managed using Excel spreadsheets, making current locations, inventory levels and responsibilities difficult to track without significant manual effort. Time spent searching, delayed returns and missing racks complicated logistics and shipping planning.

Adamer Glas therefore needed a solution that digitally records existing transport racks and combines booking information with geographic location data. Its priorities were higher availability, lower shrinkage and automated processes. The full success story on digital rack management at Adamer Glas provides an overview of the project results.

Existing transport racks retrofitted for digital tracking.
Adamer Glas retrofitted more than 400 racks with cost-effective IoT trackers. The devices enable Europe-wide location tracking via cellular networks and can be installed quickly on the existing fleet.

All location data is consolidated in the cloud-based BOX ID platform. Adamer Glas can manage its rack fleet from anywhere and compare booking data with the recorded geographic positions. This provides logistics and production with a shared database for locating racks faster, coordinating returns and assessing the status of the fleet.

15% faster returns increase availability. Digital transparency has significantly accelerated rack circulation. Racks now return around 15% faster, making them available sooner for production and delivery. This helps prevent bottlenecks while reducing the need for additional racks.

The reduced need for new racks results in annual savings of around €30,000. Digital tracking also reduces administrative effort and deters theft and unauthorised use. Employees spend less time searching, coordinating and maintaining data manually, allowing them to focus more closely on their core tasks.

“The cooperation with BOX ID was solution-oriented and on eye level from the very beginning. Thanks to the tracking solution, we were able to massively minimise costs in this area within a year, while at the same time becoming noticeably more productive in shipping,” says Peter Wolf, CEO of Adamer Glas.

Transparent rack circulation becomes an economic lever.
The project demonstrates how existing rack fleets can be digitalised easily and with minimal effort. The combination of IoT tracking and a centralised data platform provides a reliable basis for decisions regarding returns, availability and new purchases. For companies in glass and window construction, digital rack management becomes a concrete lever for lower costs, reduced capital tied up and more efficient processes. Together with BOX ID, Adamer Glas has successfully moved the management of its rack fleet from Excel into a transparent, data-driven process. The measurable results show that better location data has a direct impact on return times, availability and profitability.

Additional economic potential.
The successful project at Adamer Glas demonstrates the economic potential of digital rack management. With GESAid, BOX ID and Gestellpool Europe extend the possibilities of digital rack management through a comprehensive industry-wide solution. It combines the BOX ID platform with cost-efficient trackers, stationary and mobile data capture points, established rack management processes, long-standing industry experience and a strong network. As the acquisition cost of this technology is currently only around one-third of comparable systems, digitalising large rack fleets becomes even more cost-effective. Further information is available in the English overview of the GESAid solution for digital rack management.

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