"I'm excited to see the two premier Industrial Internet of Things organizations aligning their efforts," states Stan Schneider, CEO of Real-Time Innovations (RTI) and a member of the IIC Steering Committee.

"Industrie 4.0's strong foundation in industrial manufacturing and process combines well with the IIC's emphasis on emerging IIoT applications in healthcare, transportation, power, and smart cities. We are working aggressively to align the connectivity infrastructures of the underlying DDS and OPC UA connectivity standards. We look forward to driving the rapid growth of the IIoT across all industries."

The Zurich meeting was originally proposed by Bosch and SAP as members of the steering committees of both organizations. The meeting constituted an informal group which will continue their work on exploring potential alignment between I4.0 and IIC. The open, informal discovery group included Bosch, Cisco, IIC, Pepperl + Fuchs, SAP, Siemens, Steinbeis Institute and ThingsWise.

For more information on the Industrial Internet Consortium, please visit www.iiconsortium.org

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