[November 28, 2016]

The Industrial Internet Consortium Hosts Smart Factory Forum

The Industrial Internet Consortium^® (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), will host the Smart Factory Forum, a public forum to discuss challenges and best practices for implementing IIoT solutions within smart factories.

The forum will feature keynote speakers from Bosch, Nestlé, Boeing (News - Alert) and General Mills who will share how they are using the industrial Internet for manufacturing solutions within their own organizations. There will also be a one-hour panel session discussing how to apply the IIC's Industrial Internet Security Framework to the unique security challenges in smart factories.

About the Industrial Internet Consortium
The Industrial Internet Consortium is a global, member-supported, organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things by coordinating ecosystem initiatives to securely connect, control and integrate assets and systems of assets with people, processes and data using common architectures, interoperability and open standards to deliver transformational business and societal outcomes across industries and public infrastructure. The Industrial Internet Consortium is managed by the Object Management Group (OMG). For more information, visit www.iiconsortium.org.

Note to editors: Industrial Internet Consortium is a registered trademark of OMG. For a listing of all OMG trademarks, visit www.omg.org/legal/tm_list. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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