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.

Jun
19
2018
— Industry Trends

Edge or Cloud Analytics?

Edge analytics are necessary based simply on the nature of industrial operations. A more thorough explanation of edge or cloud analytics includes a mix of technology and business reasons.
Jun
15
2018
— Industry Trends

NGTC (Next Generation Train Control Systems) converges ETCS and CBTC

Despite the implementation of advanced rail control systems, railway accidents, collisions, and derailments are still occurring. The existing architecture of the control systems is largely dependent on the human intervention, which results in the error.

Jun
15
2018
— Industry Trends

ACHEMA 2018: MTP Facilitates Modular Production

Automation vendors continue to support standardisation efforts initiated by NAMUR, with demonstrators and reports on pilot implementations of Module Type Package (MTP) that facilitates modular production.  The impressive list*) of users, vendors, integrators and associations that participated in the common booth on MTP testifies on the perceived importance of modular production, and predicts significant rates of adoption of the standard.
Jun
13
2018
Bob Gill — Industry Trends

Legal Issues in Smart Manufacturing

Lawyers are primarily concerned with liability of your organization and can advise on key issues such as: What are you liable for to your customers? What liability needs to be borne by your vendors? What are your liable for to the regulators? What are the different jurisdictions (and their implications) of all the countries in which you are operating?
Jun
13
2018
— Industry Trends

Video Analytics Strengthens Traffic Management Systems

Rapid growth in the Internet of Things (IoT), digitization, analytics, and big data has dramatically changed the operations and strategies in the development of the future of transportation.

Jun
10
2018
Chantal Polsonetti — Industry Trends

Could 5G NR + TSN Mean the End of Industrial Ethernet As We Know It?

Industrial manufacturers gearing up for IIoT installations, as well as their suppliers and solutions/service providers, need to recognize that industrial ethernet infrastructures, currently the backbone of IIoT architectures, could be radically disrupted by the combination of the pending 5G NR (N

Jun
07
2018
— Industry Trends

AWS Hanover debut reveals understanding of IoT in manufacturing

AWS Hanover debut reveals understanding of IoT in manufacturing. Amazon Web Services (AWS) made its first full-blown appearance at the Hanover Fair this year with a large booth that demonstrated the company’s understanding of modern, digital manufacturing processes, and highlighted the its partnerships with key industry players
Jun
06
2018
— Industry Trends

Two Views of the Industrial Edge

Many industrial companies struggle to identify precisely where (or even what) the industrial edge is. This makes it difficult to deploy an effective operational analytics strategy. When considering an industrial edge environment, it is helpful to think about it from both operating and network infrastructure perspectives.
Jun
05
2018
— Industry Trends

Two Recalls from Two Opposite Mistakes

This past week Fiat Chrysler Auto (FCA) announced the recall of 4.8 million US cars to install revised software in their Engine Control Modules (ECMs). A few years ago the same manufacturer had to recall over 1 million vehicles when cybersecurity researchers showed that they could penetrate the car’s control systems remotely using the vehicle’s connected infotainment system.