MILWAUKEE – October 28, 2026 -- A. O. Smith Corporation (NYSE: AOS) agreed to sell an 81% interest in its China business to alternative asset manager CPE, valuing the unit at approximately $400 million on a cash-free, debt-free basis. The company will keep a 19% stake and sign a long-term brand licensing agreement.

DOWNERS GROVE – October 28, 2026 -- Federal Signal Corporation (NYSE: FSS) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.15 per share on its common stock, the company said today.

Board sets December 1, 2026 payment date for common stockholders

The Board of Directors approved the payout, which is due on December 1, 2026.

Delray Beach – October 27, 2026 -- The global machine safety market will grow from USD 6.03 billion in 2026 to USD 8.78 billion by 2032, a CAGR of 6.4%, according to a MarketsandMarkets forecast.

MILWAUKEE – October 27, 2026 -- Rockwell Automation (NYSE: ROK) will present ten product groups spanning controllers, I/O, drives, software, AI and cybersecurity at Automation Fair 2026, expanding its showcase for industrial manufacturers.

Matheus Bulho, senior vice president, software & control, said production systems must balance growth, workforce challenges and cybersecurity threats while adapting faster. He said the company is combining hardware, software and industrial intelligence to give customers tools "to move faster, adapt with confidence."

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Neither MQTT retained messages nor persistent sessions can guarantee complete production history, so industrial operators who need every measurement must add application-level buffering and a historian, according to an engineering analysis of the OASIS MQTT 5.0 specification.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- The deviceWISE Intelligence Suite now integrates NVIDIA Metropolis Video Search and Summarization (VSS) Blueprint, feeding camera detections directly into live machine data and automated response workflows on production lines.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- SupplyOne cut lead times for a global performance materials manufacturer from approximately 6 weeks to 2 weeks by moving key packaging materials from an international supplier to a domestic source.

The customer had struggled with long lead times, supply inconsistencies and packaging performance problems across thermoformed trays, stretch film and corrugated. SupplyOne built a multi-category program around domestic sourcing, inventory support and material optimization.

Las Vegas – October 27, 2026 -- Xerox Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: XRX) introduced three new production presses and feature upgrades to two existing models at PRINTING United Expo 2026, extending its inkjet range across cut-sheet and continuous-feed formats.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Industrial teams can locate missing historian records by tracing one test message across five boundaries: broker receipt, subscriber receipt, parsing, database write and query. The approach comes from troubleshooting guidance on TDengine's MQTT ingestion, which warns that a live broker feed or a connected publisher proves only part of the chain.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Even QoS 2's exactly-once delivery covers only one MQTT sender-receiver flow, not the subscriber's database transaction, so an MQTT broker cannot serve as an industrial historian. A broker moves messages between publishers and subscribers. A historian keeps time-indexed records that engineers can query, trend and aggregate later.