Siemens is collaborating with DrinkPAK, one of North America’ s largest canned beverage manufacturers, to automate its new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

Through a unique combination of advanced automation, smart infrastructure and tailored financial solutions, Siemens helps DrinkPAK scale its operations, maintain industry-leading reliability, maximise energy efficiency and enable sustainable decision-making.

Bill Tanner Editor

DrinkPAK has a North American network of facilities where it batches, fills, tests, warehouses and distributes drinks for global beverage brands at speeds of up to 3,000 cans per minute. The company’ s two current facilities, in Santa Clarita, California, and in Fort Worth, Texas, are the largest canned contract manufacturing facilities in the United States. With the addition of the company’ s third facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, set for early 2027, this coast-to-coast network provides DrinkPAK’ s customers with access to the largest, fastest and most flexible canned manufacturing assets in the world.

Brian Aster, Chief Strategy Officer, DrinkPAK, says partnering with Siemens gave the company the flexibility to scale rapidly while investing in energy-efficient automation.( p14)

Artificial intelligence has spent the better part of the past decade dazzling the world with its ability to generate text, design chips and model complex systems. But in 2026, a subtle yet profound shift is underway: AI is leaving the confines of the cloud and stepping into the physical world. The catalyst? Robotics – now emerging as the critical bridge between digital intelligence and real-world execution.( p24)

AMD CTO Mark Papermaster outlines how its edge computing expertise is enabling AI in space, from real-time onboard intelligence to future orbital data centers. This evolution is part of a broader wave of Digital Transformation in which intelligence is being embedded directly into infrastructure rather than centralized in distant data centers. As this trend continues, the distinction between edge and core computing will blur, creating more distributed and adaptive systems.( p35)

Quantum computing has entered its‘ show me’ phase. Organizations still believe the technology will become strategically important, but they are no longer willing to invest on expectation alone – a shift reshaping budget priorities, procurement strategies and vendor selection criteria across the emerging quantum ecosystem.( p18)

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