The Industrial Internet Consortium and the Robot Revolution Initiative
Council Announce Liaison
NEEDHAM, MA – NOVEMBER 30 , 2017 The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™), the world’s
leading organization transforming business and society by accelerating the Industrial Internet ofThings (IIoT), and the Robot Revolution Initiative (RRI), a council dedicated to developing therobotics market, announced they have agreed to a liaison. Under the agreement, the IIC andRRI will work together to align efforts to maximize interoperability, portability, security andprivacy for the industrial Internet.
Joint activities between the IIC and the RRI will include: The creation of use cases and requirements for proposals for international
standardization in the field of smart manufacturing
 Industrial security
 Periodically hosting joint seminars“We are delighted about this new liaison for further collaboration with the Industrial InternetConsortium,” said Hideaki Omiya, Chair of Robot Revolution Initiative. “With the high quality
and plenty of data which are accumulated though manufacturing, we believe Japan can greatly
contribute to this collaboration in the field of smart manufacturing.”
By industrial internet and IoT, manufacturing business will significantly accelerate optimization
along with the vertical and horizontal integration, and product lifecycle,” said Tomoaki Kubo,
Secretary General of the Robot Revolution Initiative. “I believe a lot of results will be born inthis field by meeting RRI's manufacturing knowledge and the IIC's advanced testbeds.”“Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and analytics are accelerating wide-spread adoption ofindustrial IoT,” said Wael William Diab, Chair of IIC’s Liaison Working Group, IIC Steering Committee
Member and Senior Director at Huawei. “We look forward to collaborating with RRI and are delighted topresent at the RRI International Symposium.”“We look forward to working with RRI,” said Dr. Richard Soley, IIC Executive Director. “This collaboration
expands opportunities for IIC members with industry players focused on robotics for IIoT.”The IIC Liaison Working Group is the gateway for formal relationships with standards and opensource organizations, consortia, alliances, certification and testing bodies and government
entities/agencies. The agreement with the RRI is one of a number of agreements made by theIIC Liaison Working Group. For a list of current liaisons, click here.

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Contacts:
Karen Quatromoni
Industrial Internet Consortium+1-781-444-0404 x146
quatromoni@iiconsortium.org
Robot Revolution Initiative+81-3-3434-6571
jimukyoku@jmfrri.gr.jp