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
02
2020
Frank Thomas

OPC UA and TSN – Expert Presentations on SPS Connect

MESAGO, the organizer and host of the annual SPS-fair in Nuremberg, Germany, conducted the “fair” as a virtual event over 3 days, and the platform MESAGO created for the SPS Connect made a professional and excellent impression
Dec
02
2020
Thomas Menze

Germany’s IT Security Act Update

Germany’s IT Security Act, in force since 2015, aims to increase the security of information technology systems and make Germany's IT systems and digital infrastructures the most secure in the world.
Dec
01
2020

India’s Economic Survey to Transform India

India’s Economic Survey 2016–17, a flagship annual document of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, reflects the trends in the country's economy, facilitating a better understanding of the resource mobilization and their allocation in the Budget.
Nov
27
2020
David Humphrey and Constanze Schmitz

What Is OPC UA TSN for Industrial Networking?

As in the fieldbus wars of the previous decade, end users were again lured into choosing an architecture favorable to a particular supplier, but OPC UA TSN has the potential to redefine and unify industrial networking as we know it.
Nov
27
2020
Leena Kanickaraj

India’s IT Industry Slows Down in Q1 2020-21

India’s information technology (IT) services industry slowed down in Q1 FY 2020-21 as most of the IT services companies covered in the report exhibited below-average growth.
Nov
26
2020
Leena Kanickaraj

Why Enterprise Software Market Declined in Q3

Worldwide enterprise software market continued its year-over-year decline in the third quarter of 2016, with the Euro nearly stable with respect to the US dollar
Nov
24
2020

What Is Strategic Asset Management for Arkema?

Arkema, a global chemical company headquartered in France, has decided to adopt a corporate approach to electronic document management for plant maintenance.  The process and associated software must support strategic asset management of the company with a high degree of innovation.
Nov
23
2020
Naresh Kumar Surepelly

3PL Market Shrinking

The third-party logistics (3PL) market experienced a year-over-year growth of 1.8 percent in revenues in the third quarter of 2016; we have the 3PL market shrinking