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
31
2020
Anju Ajaykumar, Rajkumar Paira, and G. Ganapathiraman

India Capital Expenditure Survey 2019-2020

In this periodic report, ARC Advisory Group looks at a number of different manufacturing industries to identify the current India Capital Expenditures
Dec
29
2020

Preventing ICS Incidents with Waterfall BlackBox

Incident management has become a top priority for industrial cybersecurity professionals, and the primary objective in protecting ICS environments is in preventing ICS incidents, i.e., make sure they “never happen.”
Dec
29
2020
Mark Sen Gupta

What Is the Future for Automation Engineers ?

The press is awash with articles about the lack of students graduating with STEM degrees.  What Is the Future for Automation Engineers ?  So, what can industry do?
Dec
28
2020
Eric Cosman

How to Describe Automation by Functionality

That Insight also included observations on how to Describe Automation by Functionality and how the competencies are evolving in the face of changing technology and how competency descriptions are necessary due to different perceptions and the lack of common definitions and expectations.
Dec
26
2020
Janice Abel

What Is the MES Technology Doing for the Next Generation?

Manufacturing execution systems (MES) can help manufacturers and other industrial organizations reduce costs while improving operations, collaboration, asset management, workflow, and safety, but the question remains: What Is the MES Technology Doing for the Next Generation?
Dec
23
2020
Janice Abel

Business Intelligence Rescues Waste Coal-Fired Power Plant

Huge piles of abandoned waste coal from historical mining operations in Pennsylvania pose a threat to the state’s water quality and public safety, but Business Intelligence rescued a waste coal-fired power plant
Dec
23
2020

APC and RTO Experiencing Increased Use in China

Sinopec, a leading integrated oil and chemical company in China, introduced advanced process control (APC) and real-time (online) optimization (RTO) applications in the country in the early 1990s, and the pilot project helped Sinopec begin to understand the potential value that APC and RTO solutions could provide
Dec
22
2020
Eric Cosman

Automation Suppliers’ Requirements Defined by Standards

In industrial automation, as with other technical disciplines, it is generally accepted that the development and adoption of standards are important to advance the technology, and Automation Suppliers’ Requirements Defined by Standards
Dec
22
2020
Bob Gill

Seven Strategies for Success Defined by Singapore’s CFE

In February 2017, the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE) released a set of recommendations for how Singapore should structure its economy and sustain its success over the next several years, and the result is the Seven Strategies for Success