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Accenture has agreed to acquire Industries eXcellence Group (IndX), a division of Engineering Group and long-standing partner of Siemens Digital Industries. The acquisition will strengthen Accenture’s ability to help manufacturers modernize product development, production and supply chain operations through software, data, and AI-enabled technologies.

The number of industrial robot installations in the United States rose by 11% year-on-year, to reach 38,000 units in 2025. This significant recovery is driven by robust growth in the food industry and other non-manufacturing sectors. However, the automotive industry remains the largest adopter and reached 13,500 units, just 1% below last year’s result.

Standard Bots, America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native, industrial robotics, recently announced a $200 million Series C funding round led by RoboStrategy and existing investors including General Catalyst at a $1 billion valuation, marking a major milestone for American robotics at a time when U.S. industry is racing to modernize.

For the first half of the current fiscal year (ended March 31, 2026), the ZEISS Group reported slight revenue growth, with revenue totaling 5.841 billion euros (prior year: 5.794 billion euros, up 1%). Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) amounted to 955 million euros (up 33 million euros).

New orders of metalworking machinery, measured by the U.S. Manufacturing Technology Orders Report published by The Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT), totaled $593.6 million in April 2026.

ESAB Corporation has announced it has completed its acquisition of Eddyfi Technologies, a global leader in advanced inspection and monitoring technologies. The addition of Eddyfi’s best-in-class instrumentation and monitoring technology builds on ESAB’s market leading end-to-end workflow solution and accelerates ESAB’s compounder journey.

Invisix, the semiconductor metrology company developing next-generation measurement tools for advanced chip manufacturing, has raised an oversubscribed €20 million seed round, which includes Hitachi Ventures, Transition Ventures, imec.xpand, Doosan Investment Co., and a tier-1 semiconductor manufacturer.

NMi Group, a leading provider of Advisory, Testing, Inspection, Certification and Calibration (ATICC) services, has announced the signing of an agreement to acquire TechnoLab GmbH, an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited, Berlin, Germany based testing and analytical laboratory.