European Union’s “European Green Deal” aims to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, and to implement many other use cases, energy consumption data in production is an important prerequisite.

The Industry IoT Consortium (IIC) and the Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced the IoT Security Maturity Model (SMM) Digital Twin Profile.

Schneider Electric and Hitachi Energy announced that they have entered into a collaboration to provide greater customer value and to help accelerate the energy transition.

ABB and Wison Offshore & Marine (WOM) to collaborate on the development and implementation of floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities worldwide.

Siemens is further expanding its portfolio in the field of innovative predictive maintenance and asset intelligence with the acquisition of Senseye.

At ARC Forum Orlando, Schneider Electric announced a collaboration with Intel to extend EcoStruxure Automation Expert by creating a Distributed Control Node (DCN) software framework complimented by an associated Intel processor-based DCN hardware offering.

GE Digital announced a technology partnership with Visionaize, a provider of operational 3D visualization capabilities.

Schneider Electric announced their partnership with Stratus Technologies and Avnet to deliver integrated, simplified, zero-touch network edge data centers

The Avnu Alliance, CC-Link Partner Association, ODVA, OPC Foundation, and PROFIBUS & PROFINET International jointly announced that they are collaborating to develop a single conformance test plan for the IEEE/IEC 60802 Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) profile for Industrial Automation.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation and NTT Docomo, Inc. announced that they have conducted a proof-of-concept test (PoC) of a remote control technology for industrial processing.