Kennametal has launched a cloud-enabled digital tooling interface ToolBOSS to help machine shops with operation and management with respect to saving time, avoiding downtime and expensive overnight shipping.

Delcam has upgraded their PowerSHAPE Pro software to include improvements in speed and simplifying product design editing. The new 2015 R2 version has increased accuracy in snapping alignment points, a split-screen alignment option so users can easily and quickly combine multiple scans of a product, and an ability to morph a complete solid or surface model to a mesh.

The industrial control and factory automation market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.73 percent from 2015-2020, and will be worth US$202 billion by 2020, according to MarketsandMarkets in their latest market research report.

Agathon Limited will be present at this year’s Blechexpo Fair in Stuttgart, Germany, from 3-6 November, with their Round Fine Centring System.

Avery Dennison Performance Tapes has expanded its Kunshan, China manufacturing facility by 3,500 sq m to increase its manufacturing capabilities with the installation of a new custom-built coater.

The final assembly of the first 737 Max 8, the first member of Boeing’s new, more efficient single-aisle family, has started on schedule and will be due for completion soon.

Rolls-Royce has announced that they will be providing Airbus with Trent 700 engines and long-term engine service support worth US$700 million for five new Beluga XL air transporter aircraft, which will replace the current Airbus Beluga fleet.

Airbus has officially inaugurated its first US manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama, which will cater to the production of A319, A320 and A321 jetliners.

Oshkosh Corporation, a manufacturer of specialty vehicles and vehicle bodies, has announced the appointment of Wilson R. Jones as chief executive officer (CEO), with effect from 1 January 2016.

During a BMW press conference on the first day of the Frankfurt Auto Show IAA, BMW CEO Harald Krüger collapsed and fell on his back during the first five minutes of his presentation on the company’s new lineup.