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.

Apr
28
2022
Craig Resnick

Smart Safety Convergence Increases Productivity and Operational Resilience

Issues ranging from the COVID-19 pandemic to supply chain disruptions to global geopolitical crises have challenged and changed industry more abruptly than at any other time in modern history. This has drastically impacted the need for manufacturers and processors to accelerate their digital transformation journey from years to weeks and think about Smart Safety Convergence
Apr
22
2022
Peter Reynolds

Moving Toward Sustainable Asset Digital Twins

Recently, several global oil and chemical leaders created a groundswell of support around the need for sustainable and open digital twins. Sustainable asset digital twins are needed after handover for the long operate and maintain portion of a plant’s lifecycle.
Mar
31
2022
Naresh Kumar Surepelly, Stefan Miksch, and Florian Güldner

ARC Advisory Group Market Update March 2022

ARC Advisory Group publishes the latest Automation Index as a Special Report in PowerPoint format. This concise report focuses on the quantitative rather than qualitative aspects.
Mar
25
2022

Time for Utilities to Expand Time of Use Rate Structures

The 1988 article on "Spot Pricing of Electricity” illustrated the cost of power varies by location, time of day, and season. With more intermittent generators on the grid, utilities are using the capability of Smart Grid technology to take Time of Use rate structures to the next level.
Mar
11
2022
David Humphrey

Metris: An All-in-One Solution for Software-defined Process Automation

Andritz AG, a manufacturer of industrial machinery and equipment, began offering its own automation software years ago and has developed the Solution for Software-defined Process Automation to cover more and more functions previously handled by commercial software.
Mar
04
2022
Eric Cosman

Operations Continuity Planning Practices

It is a common practice for companies to have a plan that describes the measures required to continue doing business in the face of adverse events. It is also very important for the scope to include continuity planning of operations or production facilities used to produce their products.
Mar
04
2022

Industry 5.0 Vision for The Future of Industry

In 2021, the European Commission published the Report “Industry 5.0” to make sure that innovation development and application in industry contributes significantly to key priorities of sustainability and climate neutrality, resilience and well-being of individuals and society as a whole, and resilience of value networks.