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

Feb
24
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Stop Pitching Generic (and Gen) AI: Why Your Industrial Strategy Needs a Vertical Reality Check

ARC’s vertical survey analysis shows that Industrial AI success depends on industry-specific physics, regulatory constraints, and legacy environments, not generic or GenAI-first strategies.

Feb
24
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

Beyond the Hype: How Industrial AI Pacesetters Are Rewriting the Rules of Scale in 2026

ARC’s Industrial AI Pacesetters 2026 insights highlight a widening “Schism of Speed,” showing that organizations with strong data fabrics and scalable AI strategies are compounding gains while others remain stuck in pilot-stage deployments.

Feb
20
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Technology Trends

IO-Link Performance Increases

Advancements in IO-Link performance, security guidelines, and certified IO-Link Safety specifications are enhancing intelligent sensor integration and secure industrial automation.

Feb
20
2026

Craig Resnick — Podcasts/Videos

Software-Defined Automation: Foxboro SDA and the Shift Toward Open Control Architectures

Schneider Electric’s Foxboro Software-Defined Automation builds on EcoStruxure Automation Expert to enable hardware abstraction, open interoperability, phased DCS modernization, and IT/OT convergence in process industries.

Feb
20
2026

Colin Masson — Technology Trends

The Jabil Playbook: How an Industrial AI Pacesetter Engineers Extreme Agility and the Rise of the Synapse Worker

Jabil’s ARC Forum keynote demonstrates how Industrial AI Pacesetters in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing are scaling agentic AI, data fabrics, and Synapse Worker models to escape pilot purgatory and operationalize intelligence at enterprise scale.

Feb
20
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Technology Trends

PI Publishes MTP Specification 2.0

PI released MTP Specification 2.0 to advance interoperability and modular automation across process and industrial systems.

Feb
20
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends

Securing the Chain: Data Integrity and Confidentiality in a Shared Ecosystem

Supply chain resilience increasingly depends on ensuring data integrity and confidentiality, as tampered, exposed, or unreliable data can cascade across interconnected partners, systems, and mission-critical logistics operations.

Feb
20
2026

Chantal Polsonetti — Technology Trends

WBA Publishes Guidance on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Intelligent Wi-Fi

WBA released a report outlining how AI/ML is becoming foundational to intelligent, self-optimizing Wi-Fi network operations.

Feb
20
2026

Marianne D’Aquila — Acquisition or Partnership

HD Hyundai Selects Siemens Xcelerator: Integrated Digital Platform for Future Shipyard Initiative

Siemens Xcelerator will serve as the digital backbone of HD Hyundai’s Future of Shipyard initiative, enabling a unified digital thread across ship design and production.

Feb
20
2026

Jim Frazer — Technology Trends

Building the Foundation: Data Harmonization and Infrastructure for AI-Driven Supply Chains—Part 6

AI-driven supply chains require harmonized and governed data foundations, as fragmented, inconsistent, and siloed datasets undermine the effectiveness of A2A agents, MCP memory layers, RAG systems, and graph-based reasoning across complex logistics networks.