ARC Europe Viewpoints
Sep
02
2026
02
2026
Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Trends
August Manufacturing PMI Remains in Expansion at 54.6 Percent but New Orders, Backlogs, and Imports Retract
US manufacturing remained in expansion in August, but weaker new orders, backlogs, imports, and employment indicated some loss of momentum.
Sep
02
2026
02
2026
Craig Resnick — Company and Product News
Weidmuller Introduces DURAmax DC UPS for Industrial Automation Applications
Weidmuller has introduced the DURAmax DC UPS, a compact 24 VDC backup power solution designed to maintain power to industrial automation devices during mains power interruptions.
Sep
02
2026
02
2026
Jim Frazer — Industry Trends
Autonomous Freight Is Moving From Experimentation Toward Commercial Logistics
Autonomous trucking is moving from technology demonstrations toward commercial middle-mile operations, shifting the industry’s focus from whether autonomy works to where it can operate reliably and economically.
Sep
02
2026
02
2026
Karthik Umachigi — Acquisition or Partnership
Hitachi Digital Services and adesso Strengthen Partnership for Industrial Digital Transformation
Hitachi Digital Services and adesso are expanding their partnership to combine cloud transformation, AI-enabled engineering, and application reliability services for asset-intensive industries.
Sep
02
2026
02
2026
Jim Frazer — Industry Trends
This Week in Logistics: Freight Tightens, AI Moves into Execution, and Networks Get More Strategic
Freight tightening, geopolitical disruption, AI-driven execution, logistics technology investment, automation, cargo security, and network restructuring are converging to make logistics more adaptive—and more complex.
Sep
01
2026
01
2026
Asha Suparna — Industry Best Practice
OPC UA Is Evolving Beyond a Protocol for Industrial Digitalization
OPC Foundation’s Stefan Hoppe explains how semantic interoperability, standardized information models, cloud integration, and AI are expanding OPC UA from industrial data exchange into a broader foundation for digitalization.
Sep
01
2026
01
2026
Jim Frazer — Technology Trends
Logistics Is Becoming an Operating System
Logistics is evolving from a collection of functional applications into a connected operating architecture that links physical assets, execution systems, visibility, intelligence, and orchestration.
Aug
31
2026
31
2026
Jim Frazer — Industry Best Practice
Why Logistics Needs Systems Engineering
Systems engineering can help logistics organizations move beyond isolated technology projects by designing operations, data, decisions, people, and technology as one interconnected system.
Aug
31
2026
31
2026
Asha Suparna — Industry Trends
How AI Is Reshaping SCADA for Renewable Energy Operations
COPA-DATA’s Kishor Mandavia and Infrared Power’s Varun Garg explore how scalable OT platforms, AI, and emerging connectivity approaches can help renewable energy operators manage increasingly complex assets and move toward more intelligent operations.
Aug
28
2026
28
2026
Colin Masson — Industry Best Practice
The COO Field Guide to Agentic AI: 10 Questions Operations Leaders Are Asking About Autonomous Factory and Supply Chain Execution
ARC outlines 10 critical questions COOs and operations leaders should ask as they scale agentic AI across factory, supply chain, and enterprise operations.