What’s New at IIC
Manufacturing Forum was held on May 23, 2019, in partnership with two Science Foundation
Ireland (SFI) Research Centres, Confirm and I-Form. The forum was hosted by IIC member, Cork
Institute of Technology (CIT), at their Cork, Ireland campus and featured speakers from Wanxiang
Group, CIT’s Nimbus Research Centre, DELL EMC and Stryker Orthopedics. During the forum,
attendees learned about trends, innovations and challenges in smart manufacturing from experts
in artificial intelligence (AI), 3D printing, supply chain, security and industrial analytics.
The next Global Event Series will be hosted in Anaheim, CA on September 12, 2019.
In addition to the Global Event Series, IIC members can be found at other participating events
such as IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona, the Open Edge Symposium in Long Beach, CA
and the Smart Factory Expo in Tokyo, Japan.
New Liaison
Since the last Journal of Innovation publication, IIC has formed a Liaison Membership with the
Linux Foundation's LF Edge. LF Edge brings together a software stack with the best of telecom,
cloud and enterprise (representing location, latency and mobility differentiation) through
projects including Akraino Edge Stack, EdgeX Foundry, Home Edge, Open Glossary of Edge
Computing and Project EVE. Formalizing a relationship with the IIC builds a strong collaboration
that further accelerates IIoT adoption, digital transformation and the edge.
New Publications
The Time Sensitive Networking for Flexible Manufacturing Testbed announced its
Characterization and Mapping of Converged Traffic Types white paper at Hannover Messe on
April 1, 2019. The white paper describes application traffic types that are found in industrial and
process control systems, including different types of critical control traffic and other traffic that
may be in a manufacturing network.
First published in 2015, the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture (IIRA) identifies and
highlights common architectural concerns found in IIoT systems and classifies them into
viewpoints along with their respective stakeholders. It then describes, analyzes and where
appropriate, provides guidance to resolve stakeholder concerns according to the viewpoints. This
new version of the IIRA published on June 18, 2019, version 1.9, provides standard vocabulary
definitions for the viewpoints and functional domains and describes roles for human users. It also
includes information about wireless communications for industrial automation systems.
Collaboration Tools
Resource Hub Enhancements
We are committed to providing the best experience for our member organizations, both in
providing additional exposure to their products, brands and collaborative bodies of work. In the
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