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
29
2020
Craig Resnick

IT/OT Convergence at Trinks

Externally, Ms. Treankler explained how Trinks leveraged IT/OT convergence (including more standardized, modular programs) to help one if its customers upgrade its older presses to modern digital controls. 
Oct
29
2020
Peter Reynolds

The Sustainability Future for Energy and Chemicals

During the first half of 2020, ARC Advisory Group conducted research to gain a better understanding of the current state of sustainability and “green initiatives” in the energy and chemical industries. 
Oct
28
2020

China’s Oil & Gas Reforms to Improve Operational Efficiencies

China's 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) targets reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and corruption across manufacturing sectors, including oil & gas. Unlike previous management-level anti-corruption activities, this quiet reform is taking place at all levels of China’s oil & gas sector.
Oct
28
2020

Outage Management’s Complex Data Brings Implications

Utility executives are spending considerable time and money to improve outage planning, gain more value from infrastructure spend, reduce response times to events, and improve communications with customers, and they are concerned about Outage Management’s Complex Data
Oct
27
2020

Upstream Oil & Gas Dealing with Challenges and Opportunities

ARC Advisory Group often attends the OTC held annually in early May, and this year, we found the mood and activity levels relative to Upstream Oil & Gas both surprisingly upbeat in light of the precipitous decline in oil prices over last ten months.
Oct
27
2020
Eric Cosman

Automation Alerts and Events Have Expanding Responsibility

Detecting, reporting, and responding to abnormal situations or automation alerts and events are all important functional elements of a complete process automation strategy. Traditional control systems present this information in the form of alarms directed to the operations staff on the control system console.
Oct
24
2020
Florian Güldner

How Does Brexit Affect Automation Markets?

This ARC Advisory Group Insight addresses the potential impacts on how this will Affect Automation Markets in the UK, the EU, Switzerland, and elsewhere.  in the UK, the EU, Switzerland, and elsewhere. 
Oct
23
2020

Open Field Message Bus - Enabling Distributed Intelligence

Stuart Laval from Duke Energy discusses the benefits of the emerging Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB) standard that is Enabling Distributed Intelligence to help power utilities meet the data and information challenges associated with the increasing fraction of distributed energy resources
Oct
22
2020

Chinese Automation Suppliers Looking at Global Market

China's automation market has grown to become the second largest in the world, just behind the US. Previously, many Chinese automation suppliers took advantage of this opportunity to increase their respective market shares in the country, often at the expense of their much larger multinational competitors.