New Product Roundup: Aveva, IFS, Schneider Electric

What you'll learn:

• Aveva and Snowflake announced a partnership designed to support customers to securely build industrial data foundations. 
• IFS launched its system, IFS Zero, for organizations to track and disclose their emissions across categories. 
• Schneider Electric selected Weidmüller’s SNAP IN connection technology for its new TeSys series of motor control products. 

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

Aveva and Snowflake are integrating their technologies to help customers use a governed data foundation, IFS launched an agentic AI system for carbon emissions tracking, and Schneider Electric selected connection technology for motor control to prioritize safety and efficiency.   

Industrial software company Aveva announced a collaboration with AI data cloud provider Snowflake, aiming to allow customers to access, analyze and activate industrial and enterprise data more seamlessly.  

By integrating Aveva with Snowflake, organizations can move from fragmented IT and OT systems to a governed, enterprisewide data foundation, according to the companies. Through this collaboration, joint customers inherit Snowflake's full governance stack, including column-level security, dynamic data masking, object tagging, and fine-grained access controls. 

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The companies said the collaboration can help customers ensure that operational data shared across IT and OT boundaries meets the compliance requirements of regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, energy and manufacturing. 

Snowflake Cortex AI enables joint customers to build intelligent systems and operate agents within a governed framework, supporting industrial data architecture designed to support AI-driven operations, cross-enterprise collaboration and the development of more autonomous industrial systems, the companies said.  

Industrial AI software provider IFS announced IFS Zero, an agentic emissions operating system designed to provide a unified calculation platform that enables organizations to measure and disclose their carbon emissions across Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 categories. 

IFS Zero works with the broader IFS Sustainability Management module that houses all sustainability data, including emissions, social impact, diversity metrics and more for corporate sustainability reporting. 

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The agentic AI works across the entire data lifecycle mapping sources, validating data, flagging anomalies and producing audit-ready outputs to allow sustainability teams to spend less time on administration and more time driving decarbonization, according to IFS.   

Schneider Electric selected Weidmüller, the inventor of SNAP IN connection technology, for its new TeSys series of motor control products designed for motor control and motor management, collaborating to develop a toolless contactor. 

The TeSys Deca contactor, the first product in the series to feature SNAP IN, is engineered for harsh industrial environments. The design offers safety, reliable connections and reusable technology for maintenance and retrofitting, Weidmüller said.    

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Schneider Electric is incorporating SNAP IN into its own product line for the first time. According to Weidmüller, this could result in cutting motor control installation time by up to 75% for OEMs and panel builders across North America.