MILWAUKEE – October 29, 2026 -- A. O. Smith (NYSE: AOS) reported third-quarter 2026 sales of $941 million, net earnings of $126 million and diluted EPS of $0.93, while moving to sell 81% of its China business to alternative asset manager CPE and cutting China from its full-year outlook.

Global – October 29, 2026 -- Historians that stamp MQTT messages with broker arrival time can display an old pressure reading as a new process condition, distorting aggregates, alarms and event order during outage replays.

Plain MQTT defines no process-time field

MQTT specifies only the transport of an application message. It prescribes no timestamp field, industrial clock model or time semantics. The publisher's application contract decides whether a payload carries a time, in what format and with what quality.

CLEVELAND – October 29, 2026 -- Preformed Line Products (NASDAQ: PLPC) lifted third-quarter 2026 net sales 18% to $209.5 million, from $178.1 million a year earlier, while gross margin widened 370 basis points to 33.4%.

Net income reached $18.0 million, or $3.56 per diluted share, against $2.6 million, or $0.53 per share, in Q3 2025. Adjusted for charges tied to the U.S. Pension Plan termination in Q3 2025, diluted EPS rose 70%. Currency translation added $3.1 million to quarterly sales and $0.4 million to net income.

DOWNERS GROVE – October 29, 2026 -- Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS) has completed the acquisition of substantially all assets and operations of Global Vacuum Systems, Inc. (GVS) for approximately $29 million, adding a custom liquid vacuum tank truck manufacturer to its vacuum truck lineup.

BEIJING – October 28, 2026 -- Spanish machine tool producer Danobatgroup obtained a construction permit on September 24 for its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai Xinzhuang Industry Park, one day after securing the land plot.

The project in Minhang District will integrate high-end CNC machine tool R&D, manufacturing and exhibition functions. The company selected Minhang after more than two years of site selection.

Shanghai – October 28, 2026 -- Aventurier has entered the U.S. commercial cleaning market with its ARTIST 1 upright floor scrubber, backed by a newly operational warehouse in Ontario, California, after selling more than 5,000 units in Europe.

WASHINGTON – October 28, 2026 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) orders on imports of van-type trailers and subassemblies from China. The orders will remain in effect for at least five years, according to the American Trailer Manufacturers Coalition (ATMC), which filed the underlying petitions.

Vienna – October 28, 2026 -- Vienna-based WAVE Trockensysteme GmbH has put its best-selling FD440 freeze dryer under AI control, replacing a conventional industrial controller with the Interkey Brain system. On its first run on October 23, the AI rewrote its own program mid-process without stopping the machine. To WAVE's knowledge, this is the first industrial machine on the market guided by an AI rather than a fixed-program controller.

Global – October 28, 2026 -- Secure MQTT telemetry collection across IT/OT boundaries depends on the architecture around the broker, clients, identity and operations, not on choosing an encrypted port, according to TDengine guidance on industrial data ingestion.

ESPOO – October 28, 2026 -- Valmet Oyj's third-quarter orders received rose 30 percent to EUR 1,408 million (EUR 1,083 million), or 25 percent organically, while comparable EBITA climbed 6 percent to EUR 169 million (EUR 159 million).