CERN signed a knowledge transfer agreement with the company ETM, a 100% owned subsidiary of Siemens AG, headquartered in Austria. ETM develops Simatic WinCC Open Architecture (WinCC OA), a SCADA software (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) that is key to industrial control and automation. This system is used widely across a broad range of industries, from traffic management, water and energy to the oil and gas industry. The agreement enables ETM to give its customers access to visualisation software developed by CERN.