The 2026 Industrial Operating System Conference took place in Shanghai from November 12 to 13. At the event, the Industrial Operating System Standards Working Group, under the Industrial Software Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, was officially inaugurated. The group will focus on key areas such as reference architecture, interconnection, compatibility and adaptation, and testing and evaluation, coordinating the development of standards and application validation, and striving to address issues including incompatible interfaces, incompatible data, and inconsistent evaluation bases. The conference also unveiled the "Research on Exploration and Practice of Industrial Operating System Technology and Industry (2026)," which, in response to the needs of industrial intelligence development, systematically reviews the technical connotations, architecture systems, deployment forms, and industrial ecosystem of industrial operating systems, analyzes technology evolution paths, and provides a reference for clarifying development directions and advancing technological innovation and application practices.