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Supplier Positioning MarketMap

September 20, 2026 BY Janice Abel

Manufacturing Execution Systems in Pharmaceutical & Biotech Industries

Selecting a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for pharmaceutical and biotech operations requires balancing regulatory compliance, operational performance, scalability, and long-term digital transformation goals.

Autonomous Execution Agents

Autonomous Exception Management in Logistics Execution

Enterprise Asset Management

Market Intelligence Highlights

August 21, 2026 BY Jim Frazer

Engineering Design Tools for Plants, Infrastructure, and Building Information Modeling

The Engineering Design Tools (EDT) and BIM market continues to evolve as organizations accelerate digital transformation across the architecture, engineering, and infrastructure sectors.

Alarm Management

Pressure Transmitters

Asset Reliability Software & Services

Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

Bounded authority and independent OT safeguards help organizations use AI without surrendering control of physical operations.

Sep
25
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Trends

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

New trials show how OpenRoaming and FDO can support secure, zero-touch onboarding and redeployment of IoT and edge devices.

Sep
25
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

AI Skills vs. Human Skills—Navigating the Demographic Cliff, Headless Firms, and Synapse Workers

AI Skills can preserve and scale human expertise, but industrial enterprises must maintain mentorship, workforce development, and deterministic governance for autonomous agents.

Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Exploring Software-Defined Applications in O-PAS Architectures

SMAR’s O-PAS work explores containerized flow computing and user-defined function blocks for more flexible industrial automation applications.

Sep
25
2026

Mark Sen Gupta — Industry Trends

Why Operators Distrust Automation

Plants can build justified reliance on automation by treating operator distrust as evidence for better design, validation, training, and operating controls.

Sep
25
2026

Naoki Ura — Technology Trends

Industrial AI Moves Beyond PoC into the Era of Operationalization

User examples from Cognite Impact Tokyo showed how contextualized data and industrial AI applications can support enterprise-scale operational deployment.

Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

Bounded authority and independent OT safeguards help organizations use AI without surrendering control of physical operations.

Sep
25
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

AI Skills vs. Human Skills—Navigating the Demographic Cliff, Headless Firms, and Synapse Workers

AI Skills can preserve and scale human expertise, but industrial enterprises must maintain mentorship, workforce development, and deterministic governance for autonomous agents.

Sep
25
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Trends

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

New trials show how OpenRoaming and FDO can support secure, zero-touch onboarding and redeployment of IoT and edge devices.

Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Exploring Software-Defined Applications in O-PAS Architectures

SMAR’s O-PAS work explores containerized flow computing and user-defined function blocks for more flexible industrial automation applications.

Sep
25
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Bounding the Brain—The 4 Levels of Industrial Autonomy and Why Domain Expertise Reigns Supreme

Industrial AI requires deterministic runtime controls, clear autonomy limits, and domain expertise before autonomous agents can safely act across physical and enterprise operations.

Sep
25
2026

Mark Sen Gupta — Industry Trends

Why Operators Distrust Automation

Plants can build justified reliance on automation by treating operator distrust as evidence for better design, validation, training, and operating controls.

Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

Bounded authority and independent OT safeguards help organizations use AI without surrendering control of physical operations.

Sep
25
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

AI Skills vs. Human Skills—Navigating the Demographic Cliff, Headless Firms, and Synapse Workers

AI Skills can preserve and scale human expertise, but industrial enterprises must maintain mentorship, workforce development, and deterministic governance for autonomous agents.

Sep
25
2026

Naoki Ura — Technology Trends

Industrial AI Moves Beyond PoC into the Era of Operationalization

User examples from Cognite Impact Tokyo showed how contextualized data and industrial AI applications can support enterprise-scale operational deployment.

Sep
25
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Trends

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

New trials show how OpenRoaming and FDO can support secure, zero-touch onboarding and redeployment of IoT and edge devices.

Sep
25
2026

Fox Chen — Technology Trends

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

Bounded authority and independent OT safeguards help organizations use AI without surrendering control of physical operations.

Sep
23
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Best Practice

US NIST Requests Comments on Expanded Draft Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security

NIST has released an expanded draft of SP 800-82r4 and is seeking public comments on updated guidance for managing cybersecurity risks across operational technology systems.

Sep
22
2026

Larry O'Brien — Technology Trends

Palo Alto Networks’ Growth Highlights the Shift Toward Unified Industrial Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks’ growth reflects rising demand for unified IT-OT cybersecurity platforms that support industrial resilience.

Sep
21
2026

Larry O'Brien — Technology Trends

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Meet the Expert

Jan brings more than 20 years of experience across discrete and process manufacturing, as well as supply chain. His background includes roles as both a consultant and analyst, with a focus on digital transformation, smart manufacturing, maintenance strategies, engineering, and quality management.

Recent Research

Closing the MES Reality Gap Requires a More Grounded Strategy

Industrial Information Layer for Software-Defined Automation

Digital Twins Evolve into Industrial Intelligence Platforms: Comparing the Strategies of AVEVA, Siemens, and Dassault Systèmes

From Visibility to Predictability: MES on the Ground

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Supplier Positioning MarketMap

Manufacturing Execution Systems in Pharmaceutical & Biotech Industries

Market Intelligence Highlights

Engineering Design Tools for Plants, Infrastructure, and Building Information Modeling

Viewpoints

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

AI Skills vs. Human Skills—Navigating the Demographic Cliff, Headless Firms, and Synapse Workers

Exploring Software-Defined Applications in O-PAS Architectures

Why Operators Distrust Automation

Industrial AI Moves Beyond PoC into the Era of Operationalization

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

AI Skills vs. Human Skills—Navigating the Demographic Cliff, Headless Firms, and Synapse Workers

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

Exploring Software-Defined Applications in O-PAS Architectures

Bounding the Brain—The 4 Levels of Industrial Autonomy and Why Domain Expertise Reigns Supreme

Why Operators Distrust Automation

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

AI Skills vs. Human Skills—Navigating the Demographic Cliff, Headless Firms, and Synapse Workers

Industrial AI Moves Beyond PoC into the Era of Operationalization

Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and FIDO Alliance Validate Secure, Zero-Touch Wi-Fi Onboarding for IoT and Edge Devices

Securing AI in OT Through Bounded Authority

US NIST Requests Comments on Expanded Draft Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security

Palo Alto Networks’ Growth Highlights the Shift Toward Unified Industrial Cybersecurity

Fortinet OT Cybersecurity Report Highlights the Growing Value of Maturity and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

The TMS Is Expanding Into the Operating System for Transportation

e2open Keeps Multi-Enterprise Orchestration at the Center

Visibility Without Intervention Is Becoming Operationally Irrelevant

Upcoming ARC Forums

ARC Industry Leadership Forum Brazil

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ARC Industry Leadership Forum Europe

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