A best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark. ARC has conducted numerous best practice surveys over the past thirty years and has developed best practices for a large number of topics of interest to industry executives.

Dec
15
2023
David Humphrey

SPS Fair 2023: Technology Trends

While Germany’s SPS fair hasn’t yet returned to its pre-pandemic size in terms of visitors and exhibitors, it still maintains its place as the number one discrete automation show in Europe.
Nov
10
2023
Larry O'Brien

Saudi Arabia Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC) Explained

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s National Cybersecurity Authority (NCA) released its Operational Technology Cybersecurity Controls (OTCC) in 2022 as a comprehensive cybersecurity mandate to address the country’s own challenges in protecting its national critical infrastructure
Oct
27
2023

AI, Energy Transition, and Industrial Sustainability

Industrial AI is a subset of the broader field of artificial intelligence (AI) and refers to the application of AI technologies in industrial settings to augment the workforce in pursuit of growth, profitability, more sustainable products and production processes, and operational excellence. Industrial AI leverages machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and fosters Industrial Sustainability.
Oct
19
2023

Digital Technology to Decarbonize Industry

Nearly every company has created sustainability goals, and the EPA greenhouse gas reporting requirements will soon be the source of data to create the benchmarks to measure the success of those sustainability goals and to create company specific decarbonization strategies to Decarbonize Industry
Oct
13
2023
Naresh Kumar Surepelly

Automation Technologies Play a Key Role in Achieving Sustainability Goals

ARC’s recent European Industry Forum (EIF) offered a wide variety of presentations and workshops on strategies and case studies in line with this year’s theme of Managing Industry Evolution in Times of Global Disruption. The session on Sustainability covered a variety of topics ranging from energy optimization using data analytics to sustainable automation.