The goal set by PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International) to integrate TSN as additional Layer 2 technology in the PROFINET architecture has been reached with the current PROFINET specification V2.4.

The market for factory simulation software products will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11% to reach US $4.1 billion for over 172,000 users in 2030.

More than 2.2 million PROFIsafe nodes were brought to market in 2018, growth of nearly 25% compared to the previous year. More than 3.3 million IO-Link nodes were brought to market, more than 40% growth rate.

The Open Group bases its new O-PAS process automation reference architecture on OPC Unified Architecture.

The goal of cybersecurity enhancements to EtherNet/IP is to extend the CIP security defense-in-depth architecture to network communications with and between ICS systems, and also edge devices.

At Hannover Messe 2019, European companies from the mechanical engineering, industrial automation and software industries announced a cooperation agreement to pursue digital transformation in manufacturing.

Security Maturity Model (SMM) Practitioner’s Guide provides detailed actionable guidance enabling IoT stakeholders to assess and manage the security maturity of IoT systems.

A liaison agreement has been reached and endorsed for the process automation device information model specification (PA-DIM), function blocks and FDI technology within the OPAF “standard of standards”.

PLCopen is working on a document showing a PackML submodel example for the I4.0 Asset Administration Shell technologies. A proposed PackML sub model can be viewed as a machine behavior semantic model.

The new Visual Networking Index (VNI) by Cisco predicts more traffic will be created in 2022 than in the 32 years since the internet started. By 2022, more than 28 billion devices and connections will be online.