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MasterControl, a leading provider of quality and manufacturing software solutions for the life sciences industry, announced the launch of Event Summarizer, a new AI-powered capability within its Quality Excellence solution as part of Advanced Quality Event Management. This innovative feature leverages secure, purpose-built artificial intelligence to instantly generate concise summaries of complex quality events right where employees manage them, enabling quality leaders to quickly assess status, understand context, and take action faster than ever before. In the high-stakes world of life sciences, quality events—such as deviations, CAPAs, and nonconformances—often contain extensive, detailed information. Reviewing these records to determine relevance and required actions can be a time-consuming process that slows down critical workflows and impacts manufacturing timelines and overall product quality. Event Summarizer addresses this challenge by automatically distilling lengthy event details into clear, actionable summaries. "Quality professionals are often overwhelmed by the sheer volume of data they need to review," said Peter

Oracle has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to give joint customers new ways to operationalize AI across enterprise data. Under the expanded partnership, the Oracle AI Database Agent for Gemini Enterprise gives Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud customers a simpler way to interact with their Oracle data using natural language. In addition, Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud now offers new capabilities and broader regional availability as global organizations, such as Worldline, use it to drive innovation and accelerate cloud migrations. “We’re making it easier for customers to use natural language to access, understand, and act on enterprise data by combining the Gemini Enterprise experience with Oracle’s industry-leading database performance, security, and governance,” said Nathan Thomas, senior vice president, product management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “By applying AI directly to enterprise data at the database layer, customers can improve accuracy, strengthen controls, and use models more efficiently without exposing sensitive data or adding complexity. Together, we’re

ChapsVision, a global leader in AI and data solutions, announced the general availability of ChapsAgents, its flagship platform designed to configure, deploy, orchestrate, and govern an entire ecosystem of AI agents across the enterprise. ChapsAgents empowers organizations to move beyond experimental pilots and small rollouts, enabling full-scale, secure, and trusted agentic AI deployments that deliver measurable business value. As enterprises race to adopt agentic AI, many struggle to move past the experimentation phase. New research from ChapsVision uncovered that 85.7% of executives at large enterprises cite reliability, security, or accuracy as a primary blocker to implementing agentic AI. ChapsAgents addresses this by solving the two fundamental reliability challenges: grounding AI in trusted enterprise knowledge (what AI agents know) and embedding robust governance (how AI agents behave). It also enables rapid, no-code deployment of specialized agents tailored to real business needs. “We are living through a profound shift in how organizations operate and compete. Agentic

Hexagon Robotics’ Division and the motion technology company Schaeffler announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to accelerate the rollout of humanoid robots, AEON, across factories worldwide, following the successful completion of a joint pilot program in 2025. Manufacturers are under growing pressure to increase flexibility, improve efficiency, and enhance sustainability. This partnership marks a significant step toward bringing humanoid robots into production environments, as Schaeffler plans to deploy at least 1,000 Hexagon Robotics humanoids across its global production system by 2032. Schaeffler will also provide its high-precision actuators to AEON, further strengthening the technological alignment between the two companies. “We have developed a humanoid specifically for the industrial market, leveraging our core expertise in sensor fusion, spatial intelligence, and physical AI. We are delighted to see our humanoid AEON move into real-world production,” said Arnaud Robert, President of Hexagon Robotics. “Working with Schaeffler allows us to deliver demonstrable business value across

Strong orders, business driven performance improvement and high cash flow Ad hoc Announcement pursuant to Art. 53 Listing Rules of SIX Swiss Exchange Orders $11,298 million, +32%; comparable1 +24% Revenues $8,734 million, +18%; comparable1 +11% Income from operations $1,780 million; margin 20.4% Operational EBITA1 $2,049 million; margin1 23.5% Basic EPS $0.73; +21%2 Cash flow from operating activities $1,029 million; +50% Return on Capital Employed1 27.2% “ABB had a strong start to the year, delivering higher business performance and record orders. Supported by our high order backlog and good execution in a strong short-cycle market, we raise our growth and margin expectations for 2026, although acknowledging risks from geopolitical uncertainties.” Morten Wierod, CEO CEO summary We have had a strong start to the year with a supportive overall market environment and improved business performance. Orders were at a record-high level and increased 24% on a comparable basis, supported by all three business areas. Overall demand remained robust throughout the period. All in all, the first quarter progressed largely

PTC announced it will demonstrate how Bobcat, a leading global manufacturer of compact equipment, can leverage the Intelligent Product Lifecycle to improve the development process of an excavator at Hannover Messe (HM) 2026. By creating a centralized product data foundation that connects design, engineering, and operations and enables AI-driven transformation, Bobcat can reduce time, errors, and rework across highly complex products and processes. Bobcat is known for inventing the compact equipment industry and has been collaborating with PTC for over 30 years to explore new ways to advance it by pioneering products and services that help customers accomplish more. Bobcat currently leverages PTC’s Creo® computer‑aided design (CAD) solution as its global engineering design foundation, integrated with PTC’s Windchill® product lifecycle management (PLM) solution, to connect product data, change management, and lifecycle processes across engineering, manufacturing, and service. Bobcat also uses Arbortext® within Windchill to create and manage BOM‑linked technical publications and relies on the Servigistics® service supply chain optimization

Tech Mahindra, a leading global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions to enterprises across industries, announced it has been named the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year in the Services & Industry Solutions: Manufacturing category. This recognition highlights Tech Mahindra’s strength in delivering industry-specific solutions that move beyond pilots to production-grade cloud and AI transformation. Tech Mahindra has been recognized as the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year in the Services & Industry Solutions: Manufacturing for enabling manufacturers to build intelligent, data-driven operations by bringing together AI, data platforms, and enterprise systems at scale. By integrating data across plants, supply chains, and business functions, and embedding AI into core workflows, Tech Mahindra and Google Cloud help organizations move from fragmented insights to real-time, decision-ready intelligence and automated actions. This is driving measurable improvements in operational resilience, efficiency, and continuous optimization across manufacturing operations. Amol Phadke, Chief Transformation Officer, Tech

MongoDB, Inc. announced the expansion of its product leadership team with two executive appointments. Pablo Stern will join the company as Chief Product Officer, AI and Emerging Products, and Ben Cefalo, a longtime MongoDB product leader, has been named Chief Product Officer, Core Products. Jim Scharf continues in his role as Chief Technology Officer. Stern, Cefalo, and Scharf will report to CJ Desai, President and Chief Executive Officer. "MongoDB's innovation agenda is aggressive," said Desai. "We are driving significant innovation across our core database products while simultaneously moving with velocity and faster iterations on our emerging products. Having a dedicated leader for each focus area will allow us to deliver what our customers need as they standardize both their core applications and AI workloads on MongoDB. With our new Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Customer Officer, and now this expanded product leadership team in place, I'm confident we have the right leaders

Infosys, a global leader in AI-first business consulting and technology services, announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to help enterprises transform software development and modernization with OpenAI’s frontier AI models and products like Codex. Through this collaboration, Infosys will combine OpenAI’s technology with Infosys Topaz Fabric, its purpose-built, composable and open agentic services suite, to help customers move from AI experimentation to practical, responsible deployment and measurable business outcomes. The engagement spans high-impact industry and functional opportunities, with an early focus on software engineering, legacy modernization, DevOps automation, e-commerce, and other engineering-led domains. By combining Codex, workflow automation, and prebuilt agents with Infosys’ poly-AI architecture and enterprise governance, the collaboration is designed to help organizations modernize development workflows, improve engineering productivity, accelerate delivery, and reduce time-to-market. Infosys, with its deep industry expertise and global delivery scale across application modernization, software engineering, and enterprise transformation, is well positioned to help organizations put Codex to work in

Infor, the Industry Cloud Complete company, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced new and enhanced industry-specific AI agents built natively on AWS, enabling manufacturing and distribution enterprises to deploy industry-specific AI agents that reason, plan, and act across complex business workflows. The collaboration addresses discrete and process manufacturing's AI scaling challenge by combining enterprise-grade infrastructure with industry-specific capabilities, enabling companies to rapidly develop and deploy AI agents that drive measurable improvements in efficiency, cost, and customer service. “The conversation has changed from 'where do we start with AI' to 'how fast can we scale it," said Ozgur Tohumcu, General Manager of Automotive and Manufacturing at AWS. "Through our collaboration with Infor, manufacturers are moving from pilot to production faster than ever — deploying industry-specific agents that deliver operational advantages at enterprise scale.” "Generic AI doesn't work in manufacturing — you need agents that understand manufacturing-specific operational processes, bill of materials, supply