ARC Europe

Since 1999, ARC has established its European headquarters in Dusseldorf, Germany. ARC has several offices across Europe, located throughout Germany, Belgium, and France. ARC European analysts cover a wide range of topics including Industrie 4.0, smart machinery, sensors, automation, plant and enterprise software.

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ARC Europe Viewpoints

Aug
25
2026

Mark Sen Gupta — Industry Best Practice

Autonomous Operations Isn't About Removing People

Autonomous operations can help process industries scale scarce expertise, automate routine work, and improve safety, reliability, and decision-making without positioning autonomy as a workforce replacement strategy.

Aug
21
2026

Colin Masson — Industry Best Practice

Curing the "Copilot Tower of Babel": Orchestrating Multi-Vendor Copilots Across the Extended Industrial Enterprise

Industrial enterprises need open protocols and clear domain authority to coordinate multi-vendor copilots and prevent conflicting AI actions across factory, supply chain, and enterprise systems.

Aug
21
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Best Practice

Oil and Gas Supply Chain Resilience: Protecting LNG, Refined Products, and Critical Flows

Oil and gas companies can strengthen supply chain resilience by protecting critical flows, building operational optionality, improving supplier and cyber-physical resilience, and preparing for disruption through scenario planning and simulation.

Aug
20
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

Rockwell Automation Integrates Plex QMS With FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI for AI-Driven Quality Management

Rockwell Automation integrates Plex QMS with FactoryTalk Analytics VisionAI to connect AI-driven inspection with quality management and manufacturing data.

Aug
20
2026

Craig Resnick — Company and Product News

PTC Launches Onshape FeatureScript MCP Server for AI-Assisted CAD Automation

PTC launches the Onshape FeatureScript MCP Server to connect AI and natural language with reusable CAD automation and engineering workflows.

Aug
19
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Best Practice

Oil and Gas Power Strategy: Why Energy Resilience Is Now a Supply Chain Priority

Power strategy is becoming a critical supply chain capability for oil and gas companies seeking to improve resilience, control costs, support electrification, and reduce emissions.

Aug
19
2026

Colin Masson — Industry Best Practice

Penetrating the "LLM-Wrapper" Illusion: What Dozens of Briefings Reveal About the Real Industrial Copilot Landscape

ARC examines why thin LLM wrappers fall short as industrial copilots and outlines the contextual integrity, data architecture, and governance required for trusted industrial AI.

Aug
19
2026

Jim Frazer — Industry Best Practice

Upstream, Midstream, Downstream, LNG, and Petrochemical Supply Chain Networks

Oil and gas supply chain performance depends on connecting upstream, midstream, downstream, LNG, and petrochemical networks without losing the specialized capabilities each requires.

Aug
18
2026

Marianne D’Aquila — Acquisition or Partnership

Autodesk Completes MaintainX Acquisition to Expand Connected Operations Strategy

Autodesk has completed its acquisition of MaintainX, expanding Autodesk Operations Solutions with maintenance and asset management capabilities designed to connect operational data with engineering, manufacturing, and digital twin workflows.

Aug
17
2026

Jan Burian and Constanze Schmitz — Industry Trends

Industrial Information Layer for Software-Defined Automation

As industrial operations become increasingly connected, software-driven, and data-centric, cybersecurity has become a business-critical requirement.