Digital Transformation Viewpoints

Featured here are original and timely articles from ARC analysts and guest writers on topics such as Digitization, New Business Models, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, and Smart Manufacturing. We dive into technologies such as additive manufacturing, machine learning, asset performance management, device connectivity, IIoT architecture, cybersecurity, augmented reality, and more related to digitization and transformation of industries, infrastructure, and cities. Our goal is to provide readers with clear and concise analyses, opinions, and discussion of these trends, technologies, and services.

Nov
17
2016
Peter Reynolds — Industry Trends

Cloud-Based Process Simulation Platforms: Agile Cost Effective Engineering

Oil price volatility tied to over capacities has squeezed margins across the oil & gas industry, significantly reducing capital spend on major expansion projects, increasing the need to optimize existing assets, debottleneck plants, and take out cost across the board.
Nov
16
2016
Alex Chatha — Industry Trends

LED Lighting Systems: IIoT for Smart Buildings and Smart Cities

LED lighting control networks are emerging as an alternative IIoT platform within the smart building and smart city environments.  The LED revolution is well under way, and as low-voltage semiconductor devices, LED’s are natural partners for microprocessor-based controllers with sophisticated s
Nov
10
2016
— Industry Trends

An Introduction to Building Information Modeling

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an evolving concept that will modernize the construction industry. In its earliest iterations, the acronym "BIM" was appropriately used to describe CAD tools used in building design.   For over two decades this definition held true.
Nov
07
2016
Greg Gorbach — Industry Trends

The Power of the Industrial Edge

What is the industrial edge, and why does it matter?  Is it network infrastructure? Can the edge be found in a sensor that feeds a controller in a plant?  Or is it in a smart machine that's in service halfway around the globe?
Nov
04
2016
— Industry Trends

The future of information management in clinical research

The luxury of pharmaceutical blockbusters is over. Development and clinical trials have become more lengthy, risky and expensive related to increasing regulatory pressures, reducing the profitability of drugs because the periods they can be effectively sold has become shorter and shorter.