The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) and the International Society of Automation announced the IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM): 62443 Mappings for Asset Owners, and Product Suppliers, and Service Suppliers.

Stratus Technologies announced an agreement with NEC Corporation that extends their partnership to bring next generation fault tolerant computing platforms to the market.

Bentley Acceleration Initiatives announced the acquisition of eagle.io, a provider of Water and Environmental Monitoring

Stratasys Ltd. to acquire the additive manufacturing materials business of Covestro AG.

Baker Hughes announced it has agreed to acquire the Power Generation division of BRUSH Group

Cohesive, a wholly owned, independently operated, digital integrator business unit of Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced the acquisition of MaximoCon, a Brazil-based consultancy specializing in technical services for IBM Maximo

Amazon will acquire iRobot, who has a history of making customers’ lives easier with innovative cleaning products for the home

GE Digital and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced an alliance to help organizations accelerate the transformation of their manufacturing operations through data-driven manufacturing

Semtech Corporation to acquire Sierra Wireless, a cellular IoT solutions provider

Cellular IoT provider Telit and aerospace, defense, and digital identity & security provider Thales have entered into a binding agreement under which Telit intends to acquire Thales's cellular IoT products