The two standards organizations, along with the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and members of Industrie 4.0 define a position paper describing how they will cooperate with their communication technologies, OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) and Data Distribution Services (DDS)

Gain insights on the continuous communication from sensor to IT/cloud. Hilscher Swiss demonstrates a communication in a live showcase through netIOT Edge Gateway Connectivity at the Sindex 2016 trade fair in Bern.

After two years of hype and the promise of gazillions of dollars in realized benefits, is this the year in which we’re going to see real automation applications? Will terms such as “Big Data” and “cloud analytics” finally make it into our mainstream vocabularies?

A first-person account of how the Japanese market is approaching Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things based on observations from two major automation fairs held recently in Tokyo.