In the context of the fourth industrial revolution and digitalization as a driving force, a current approach in the Swedish industrial innovation system is the public-private partnership Strategic Innovation Programs (SIPs). The program Process-industrial IT and Automation (PiiA) has been founded to support the process industries’ competitiveness through digitalization. This essay aims to briefly share seven years of empirical observations, analysis, and conclusions from the PiiA program. Digital transformation is a central theme in the article, underpinned by discussions about enabling digital technologies and managerial consequences, where industry firms can be found in three different positions of digital maturity.