Advantech, Behr Technologies (BTI), Hitachi Solutions America, and Microsoft announced that the companies are collaborating to deliver wireless communications solutions with scalability, reliability, and security for private industrial internet of things (IIoT) networks.

HMS Industrial Networks AB, a wholly owned subsidiary of HMS Networks AB, has acquired all shares in the German company Beck IPC GmbH – a leading provider in the embedded communications market with solutions for embedded control, M2M communication and the Industrial Internet of Things, IIoT.

SGS and Baker Hughes, a GE company, are partnering on the sensor and data-driven maintenance of industrial equipment.

GE and Microsoft Corp. announced an expanded partnership, bringing together operational technology and information technology to help eliminate some of the hurdles industrial companies face in advancing digital transformation projects.

Canon Inc. announced that the company will partner with AVEVA Group plc with the objective of adding capabilities to smart factories through its Canon imaging technologies.

Infosys unveiled a new partnership with Siemens PLM Software to develop applications and services for MindSphere, the open cloud-based IoT operating system from Siemens.

ABB is to acquire AB Rotech, a privately-owned company headquartered in Bursa, Turkey, with nearly 20 years of extensive experience in robotic welding solutions and services for the automotive industry.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that two of its Group companies in China, Mitsubishi Electric (China) Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Automation (China) Ltd., concluded a strategic partnership with the Instrumentation Technology and Economy Institute, P.R. China (ITEI).

Siemens and Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in 9th, July, to partner to foster the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) in China.