Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it will release the Sushi Sensor, an OpreX brand wireless solution that is a compact wireless device with integrated sensing and communication functions that is intended for use in the monitoring of plant equipment vibration and surface temperature.

Baker Hughes, a GE company, announced the launch of its new approach to subsea development: Subsea Connect, including its Aptara TOTEX-lite subsea system, a suite of new lightweight modular technologies designed for the full subsea oilfield lifecycle. 

A colloquialism that has long since become the standard in the automation industry has now been made official: From now on, SPS IPC Drives will be known simply as SPS.

IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) announced the publishing and availability of IEEE 802.1CM-2018—IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks—Time-Sensitive Networking for Fronthaul. 

At Germany’s SPS trade fair in late November, the OPC Foundation announced its long-anticipated plans to extend OPC UA down to the field level. This announcement amounts to a breakthrough after a year-long stalemate that threatened to divide the industry into two competing camps.

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF), a leading open Internet of Things (IoT) standards development organization, announced that its OCF 1.0 specification has been ratified as an International Standard by ISO/IEC JTC 1 (Joint Technical Committee for ICT standardization of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)).

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that it will launch factory automation products, such as programmable controllers, industrial PCs, servo amplifiers, GOT human-machine interfaces, inverters, and robots that are compatible with CC-Link IE TSN.

Bentley Systems announced the release of a new chemical management solution for oil and gas companies operating multiple onshore or offshore wells.  With the extended functionality of AssetWise CONNECT Edition, users can consolidate chemical and corrosion data into one central source.

OSIsoft LLC launched a suite of products, including PI Integrator for Business Analytics and AWS Quick Starts, designed to enable manufacturers, utilities and other industrial customers to run the OSIsoft PI System on Amazon Web Services.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) announced results for the Smart Manufacturing Connectivity for Brown-field Sensors Testbed.