Digitimes.com just published an article headlined Foxconn gearing up to promote IIoT applications to diverse industries. This serves as one evidence in a long row for a major trend: Ever more leading manufacturing companies are convinced that IPC-HERMES-9852 and IPC CFX in connection are the key to efficient data collection and analysis throughout the entire process. With “The Hermes Standard” covering the horizontal machine-to-machine for Furthermore, this dream-team of complementary communication standards paves the road to IIoT in electronics manufacturing. For more background, please see e.g. the article published by digitimes.com.