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The 20th Annual ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida kicked off this week with over 700 participants. Attendees represented 300 different companies and came from more than 25 countries around the globe. The keynote presentations all reflected the Forum theme, Industry in Transition: Navigating the New Age of Innovation, and served as a call to action for the automation industry.
Several common messages resonated throughout the initial keynotes. These included the message that transformative innovation is no longer an option; companies that fail to innovate effectively to meet business challenges will simply cease to exist. This applies to technology end users and technology suppliers alike. As we learned, while automation technology has seen only incremental innovation in recent years, that's about to change; quickly and quite dramatically.
The presenters for this year's opening keynote presentations included Andy Chatha, ARC's founder and president; Sandy Vasser, Facilities I&E Manager at ExxonMobil Development; Don Bartusiak, Chief Engineer, Process Control from ExxonMobil Research & Engineering; and Michael Carroll, VP of Innovation & Operations Excellence at Georgia-Pacific. A lively roundtable discussion followed, with Peter Terwiesch, President, Process Automation Division at ABB; and Blake Moret, Senior VP, Control Products & Solutions at Rockwell Automation contributing their perspectives from the suppliers' side.
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Keywords: ARC Industry Forum, Disruptive Innovation, Digital Transformation, Process Automation, Industrial IoT, Open Standards, Interoperability, ARC Advisory Group.