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Factory automation strategies are leveraging several technologies and their enabling elements to reap benefits. Automation has a long history of playing an essential role in industrial markets, and advancements in automation are delivering mechanical excellence. This article examines technologies that meet the requirement of balancing capital expenditure and operational expenditure, as well as those that may influence the direction of automation. Wide area networking (WAN) is changing the way connectivity is used in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and the industrial sector is now largely aligned on the use of Ethernet to support an IP architecture. Additionally, single-pair Ethernet (SPE) is providing a simplified network at the physical level.