The CLPA was established in 2000 to develop and promote the CC-Link open fieldbus. Since that time, the market demands for industrial open networks have changed continuously and both the CLPA and CC-Link technology have always been one step ahead. In 2007, CC-Link IE Control was announced as the first open industrial network based on 1 Gbps Ethernet. In 2018, CLPA released the specifications of CC-Link IE TSN, the first open industrial Ethernet to combine gigabit bandwidth with TSN.