ARC has been blogging for a few years now about its strong belief in the real business value that IIoT-enabled solutions can provide companies in all industries, but most especially in the oil & gas segments of upstream, midstream and downstream.

Tuesday night I spoke to a lively group from the ISA Boston Section on the topic of Open Process Automation. I had fun, and hope everyone else did, too.

Part One, which was published in Industrial IoT/Industrie 4.0 Viewpoints on Thursday, October 12th, addressed considering the whole enterprise and using open standards.  Part Two will address “Why Open Architectures”, “Technology

Clearly, to enable IIoT in the manufacturing environment and to facilitate the building of digital thread and digital twin, we need some systematic solution: a consistent framework to collect, manage and analyze data from the products, machines and processes and distribute the insights from the a

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) recently released a presentation detailing their work on a virtual reality (VR) system for robot tele-operation.  The team, funded in part by Boeing, used an Oculus Rift headset to monitor and control a Ba

The concept of an open enterprise architecture that links plant floor operations with business operations across an entire corporate entity has been around for a while in many industrial sectors.  But making this concept a reality remains challenging.  This is particularly true for thos

The worlds of IT and manufacturing have been converging for several years now, and nowhere was this trend more evident than at the IoT Solutions World Congress, held last week in Barcelona, Spain, and attended by ARC analysts.