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.

Oct
14
2022
David Humphrey and Constanze Schmitz

ACHEMA 2022: A Smaller Show as Trade Fairs Return to Normal

In Germany, the Hanover Fair was moved to June, and the triennial ACHEMA 2022 show in Frankfurt, already postponed from the previous year, shifted to an unconventional slot in the middle of August, prime vacation time for many countries.
Oct
07
2022

IMTS 2022: Trends in Additive Manufacturing

The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) has come and gone in McCormack Place in Chicago, where I covered part of the additive manufacturing section
Oct
07
2022

Smart Asset Management Strategy and Use Cases

Smart Asset Management involves collaborating and synchronizing across the asset management functions using common asset information management and business process automation
Sep
30
2022
Naresh Kumar Surepelly, Stefan Miksch, and Florian Güldner

ARC Advisory Group​ Market Update ​- September 2022

To provide our Advisory Service clients with holistic Industrial Market Update with coverage of the various industrial and automation markets we cover, ARC Advisory Group publishes every quarter indices on automation, machinery and user CapEx markets
Sep
22
2022

Rapidly Evolving Digital Twins for Plants

The recent ARC Forum session titled “Digital Twins for Plants” provided insights to the current state of the industry transition from linear workflows based on 2D data to a more immersive 3D environment
Sep
08
2022
Eric Cosman

Supply Chain Cybersecurity Risks for OT Systems

Securing automation and related OT systems and their components has been a major area of focus for many years, but Supply Chain Cybersecurity Risks must also be addressed.