BASF, BMW Group, Henkel, Mercedes-Benz, SAP, Schaeffler, Siemens, T-Systems, Volkswagen, and ZF jointly founded Cofinity-X to accelerate the operation and adoption of Catena-X network

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Trend Micro Inc. and its subsidiary VicOne Inc. have expanded their collaboration to provide security solutions for connected cars

IOTech announced its partnership with LATERAL.systems LLC to accelerate innovation within the novel smart farming markets to Deliver AgTech and Industry 4.0 Solutions for Sustainable Food Production

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has joined the O-RAN Alliance to Promote Open Wireless Technologies and Supply Chains

Cognizant has entered into an agreement to acquire Mobica, an IoT software engineering services provider headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom.

ABB has reached an agreement to sell its Power Conversion division to Taiwan-based AcBel Polytech Inc. for $505 million in cash.

The AVEVA Acquisition by Schneider Electric Is Complete

The Phoenix Contact Group has acquired Canadian company iS5 Communications Inc., a provider of industrial network products and specializes in services and solutions for critical infrastructure networks.

Moving to advance its automation portfolio, Emerson announced that it submitted a proposal to the Board of Directors of National Instruments (NI) to acquire NI for $53 per share in cash at an implied enterprise value of $7.6 billion.  T