inIT - Your Research Partner for Industrial Information Technologies We harmonize information and communication technologies (ICT) with the challenging demands of industrial automation applications. As a result we want to strengthening the position of the German machine and plant engineering and adjacent application domains. The Institut Industrial IT (inIT) is concerned with interdisciplinary industrial informatics research since the beginning of 2007. The start-up phase of the inIT was funded through the programme "Kompetenzplattform (KOPF)" (Center of Excellence) of the Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology (MIWFT) of the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia. inIT is the first research institute of the Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. Currently more than 60 employees are working on new concepts for networked embedded realtime systems. All research projects are carried out in close cooperation with other scientific institutions and partners from the industry.