Proponents of various industrial protocol standards have established a number of trade organizations to develop, certify, and market their respective industrial Fieldbus and industrial Ethernet protocol standards and solutions.
These organizations include:
- EtherCAT
- Ethernet Powerlink
- Ethernet/IP (See ODVA)
- Modbus-IDA
- PROFIBUS International for PROFIBUS and PROFINET
- PROFINET Trade Organization (PTO) for North America
- SERCOS International, SERCOS North America
- VARAN Bus User Organization (VNO)
