ODVA announced that it has launched a joint working group with the OPC Foundation to develop an OPC UA companion specification to Be Developed for ODVA’s CIP Protocol

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that its European subsidiary, Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., acquired all shares of Swedish Air Conditioning Distributor, AQS PRODUKTER AB, in Sweden.

Microsoft announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks and its fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network solutions for New Opportunities with the Global 5G Ecosystem

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and Ube Industries, Ltd. announced that they will establish a joint venture company by joint incorporation-type split to address the electrolyte business for lithium-ion rechargeable battery and other applications of both companies.

AVEVA announced that it has acquired production accounting software from South Korean-based company MESEnter to extend AVEVA’s value chain optimization solution.

Hitachi Capital Corporation, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, and amnimo Inc., a subsidiary of Yokogawa, entered into a comprehensive partnership agreement with an aim to provide new services by adding Industrial IoT to each company's technologies, know-how, and lease equipment.

​​​​​​​SAP SE and Accenture launched a co-developed solution for upstream oil and gas companies based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it completed the acquisition of all shares in Denmark-based Grazper Technologies ApS, as mutually agreed.  Grazper has developed advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for analyzing images.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) will advance their shared interests through a new alliance.

SAP SE and Goldman Sachs announced that they have joined forces to make it easier for companies to do business with the millions of suppliers worldwide on Ariba Network, where more than US$3.2 trillion in commerce is transacted annually.