The Industrial Internet Consortium, a global public-private organisation formed to accelerate the enablement of the Industrial Internet of Things, has passed the 200-member mark 18 months after it was set up.
The Consortium also announced the results of its 2015-2016 Steering Committee elections, elected by the Industrial Internet Consortium membership:
Jacques Durand, Director of Standards & Engineering, Fujitsu Limited
Dirk Slama, Director of Business Development, Bosch
Stan Schneider, CEO, Real-Time Innovations
Robert Martin, Senior Principal Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
They join representatives from the five Industrial Internet Consortium founders (AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, and Intel) as well as Executive Director, Dr. Richard Soley.
Since last year’s Steering Committee election, the Industrial Internet Consortium said in a statement, it had grown from 68 to over 200 member organisations hailing from 26 countries. Some of this body’s recent accomplishments included the public release of six testbeds and the Industrial Internet Reference Architecture and Vocabulary documents.
To help serve the needs of its increasingly global membership, the Industrial Internet Consortium also announced the first Country Team in Germany with the organisation of other Country Teams underway in China, India and Japan. The Teams consisted of local Industrial Internet Consortium members and adhere to the same policies and procedures. These teams will focus on specialised uses cases and testbeds, plus localised marketing and the establishment of liaisons with national or regional standards bodies.
The Industrial Internet Consortium was founded by AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM, and Intel in March 2014, to catalyze and coordinate the priorities and enabling technologies of the Industrial Internet. The Industrial Internet Consortium was managed by the Object Management Group.
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