Editor’s note: Smart Industry New Product Roundups are digests of manufacturing technology offerings recently brought to market.  

Digi International announced its system that integrates deployable features for development including AI, safety and connectivity features; Norelem is expanding its portfolio to control and monitoring devices; and ArcelorMittal is joining Amazon in a collaboration to drive industrial automation.

Digi International 

Digi International announced the availability of the Digi ConnectCore 95 SMARC system-on-module development kit, which the company said is a deployable technology rather than hardware that includes security, lifecycle management and cloud services. 

With the new technology, OEMs can scale a connected product within one module instead of sourcing and integrating the required software. The kit is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, includes five years of bundled OTA updates, fleet monitoring and device provisioning. Digi TrustFence adds secure boot, hardware root of trust, encrypted storage, and SBOM generation.

The product includes five years of bundled Digi ConnectCore Cloud Services, built-in Digi TrustFence security, and lifecycle management. It also adds on-device AI, pre-certified tri-band Wi-Fi 6E and a socketed SMARC form factor.

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According to Digi, device manufacturers can deploy medical, industrial, and retail products without sourcing separate software or infrastructure.

Norelem 

Norelem announced that it's adding control and monitoring devices with external contact blocks to its portfolio designed for use in mechanical and plant engineering, automation technology, the process and manufacturing industry and construction technology. 

The devices are designed for safe triggering of switching commands and clear display of operating, status, and fault messages. According to Norelem, the devices have notable construction, durability, and high protection ratings. They can be combined with various contact and light elements and integrated into switch boxes, machines, and systems. 

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The devices contain an operating indicator and an external contact block with a modular design that provides a separation between actuation and contact technology. It also supports different device configurations, and elements can be combined as required of separately exchanged for customization in different applications.   

The control devices are available as push-buttons standard and illuminated, as standard selection switches latching or momentary, as standard indicator lights, and as key-operated switches latching or momentary, according to Norelem. 

ArcelorMittal 

ArcelorMittal announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services that aims to combine AWS cloud and AI capabilities with ArcelorMittal’s manufacturing processes to promote safety, reliability and energy efficiency in industrial manufacturing. 

ArcelorMittal is converging some of its IT and OT technologies on AWS infrastructure to extend cloud and AI to the edge of its production environments. 

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Through using AWS services across industrial IoT, real-time sensor data and machine learning, the company aims to deploy AI at the point of production, enabling predictive maintenance, computer-vision quality control, process optimization, and digital twins of its physical assets and production lines, according to ArcelorMittal.

AWS will also design and deliver a comprehensive education program for ArcelorMittal’s global workforce as part of the collaboration. Amazon also entered into a supply framework agreement with ArcelorMittal for the supply of structural steel across Europe and the U.K.