Yes, as stated in this article, Industrial IoT will have significant transformation to the industrial community. It will do the similar magic / value of social networks (like facebook, google+, linkedin & so on) that connected all the people.

The interesting challenge for the market participants in the IoT ecosystem could be in how the existing infrastructure connected through legacy networks could be leveraged for IP based networks. In the social network case, its totally a new platform. But in our manufacturing brownfield projects it is not. In case of green field projects, IIoT is the way forward.