Background
Eclipse Arrowhead has grown out of a number of EU projects addressing the usage of IT technology in industrial automation and digitalisation.
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The first open source release was in 2016. The project joined Eclipse foundation and became Eclipse Arrowhead in 2020.
The Arrowhead Framework development has so far been supported by a large number of projects, prominent examples are: Arrowhead, Arrowhead Tools, Productive 4.0, EMC2, Far Edge, Opti, MANTIS.