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Computer&Automation International May 2026
Artificial intelligence is reshaping industrial automation across procurement, production, and cybersecurity. Its relevance lies not in the technology itself, but in its ability to create faster, more resilient, and more efficient operations. Read more in the e-paper of Computer&Automation International.
Market & Management
- Industry News (Page 6)
- Manufacturing Future in Parma
SPS Italia starts on May (Page 8) - DevSecOps Platform for Machine Software
Cloud Tool for Industrial Software Management (Page 9) - How AI is Transforming B2B Procurement
Real-world use cases and current limits (Page 10)
Technology
- TITLE: New Rules for Refrigerants
New EU regulations starting in 2027 (Page 12) - Cybersecurity under time pressure
How to secure IT and OT infrastructure nowadays (Page 14) - Identity-Related Security Incidents at Enterprise Level are Increasing
A new study by Palo Alto Networks (Page 16) - Embedded AI as a Service Technician
With SLMs, LLMs, and agentic AI, towards the "virtual service technician" (Page 18) - Faster with the "AI Colleague"
Practical benefits of AI in everyday engineering work (Page 20) - Products (Page 23)
- Rethink IT-OT Convergence in an AI-Driven World
Start of an article series on Federation Architecture (Page 24) - Connecting heterogeneous machine parks
Targeted data integration for intelligent, connected manufacturing (Page 28) - AI and Robotics: Drivers of Industrial Automation
The Benefit of Software-first approaches (Page 30) - AI-based automated order picking
Robotics solution independently processes around 500 orders per day (Page 32) - Robot controller reduces programming effort
Robot control for custom automation (Page 34) - From Prototype to Production Readiness
The Momentum of Humanoid Robotics (Page 36)
Standards
- Editorial (Page 3)
- Imprint (Page 13)
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