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HMS Industrial Networks AB

Industrial Ethernet in eight of ten new nodes – Fieldbus decline accelerates according to HMS Networks’ annual analysis

Halmstad, Sweden, June 17, 2026  HMS Networks has released its annual analysis of the industrial network market, marking twelve consecutive years of tracking how factories and machine builders connect their automation systems. The 2026 study shows that the long-running shift from traditional fieldbus technologies to Industrial Ethernet has continued through another full year, with Industrial Ethernet now accounting for 79% of newly installed nodes worldwide, up from 76% in 2025 and just 34% when HMS first began publishing these figures in 2015.

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