LG Display, the leading global display manufacturer, has factories around the world producing a variety of innovative displays for all kinds of hardware. In 2017, a licence agreement was signed between LG Display and CERN, giving them access to controls middleware software from CERN to be used in factory automation across their plants. The software, which was originally developed for the LHC to provide a common software communication infrastructure for the accelerator controls, will now be adapted to its new application. In September 2017, training of four Korean engineers was completed, contributing further to the knowledge transfer project.