The drilling industry is moving fast to cope with an increasing number of automated systems designed to improve safety, reliability, or performance of drilling operations. The variety of actors, the intrinsic complexity of drilling processes and the uncertainty in how systems, controls, or states are defined or even designated are major obstacles to their seamless integration at the well site. In this session, we will look at how the drilling community is developing standards and taxonomies to support automated systems interoperability and at actual implementations of automated processes and applications in the field.