Rockwell Automation has introduced its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, designed to help its customers reduce the time and cost to deploy and maintain complex network infrastructure while ensuring security and robustness.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched Connected Clinical Trials (CCT), an innovative Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that reportedly enables pharmaceutical companies to significantly transform patient engagement in clinical trials and improve the efficiency and accountability of the clinical supply process.

IFS has released the first update to IFS Field Service Management 5.7, including a standard Sales Cloud integration and collaborative enterprise 2.0 customer experience tools.

Hitachi, Ltd. announced that in November of 2017, the company will launch the "factory simulator" to automatically generate optimized production schedules for entire factories, and the "assembly navigation system" to automatically generate 3D work instructions based on 3D CAD data. These systems are made possible by using the IoT to link a large variety of information.