Industry standards mandate safety lifecycle management and most industrial organizations are aware of and comply with those standards.

Looking at the future of process automation ExxonMobil’s recent initiative is noteworthy for several reasons

According to ARC Advisory Group’s recent study on Supplier-Provided Automation Services, although currently a small segment of the overall market, remote automation monitoring is one of the faster growing segments in this space, indicating increasing user acceptance and need.

What do plant safety and asset performance management (APM) have in common?  Asset performance management minimizes risks on safety. 

Currently, tens of thousands of control systems that are well past their expected lifespans are still installed and operating in industrial plants around the world, but it must be understood that DCS Migrations Justified by Business Case

FDA is working with pharmaceutical manufacturers to help them identify and implement new, scientifically sound technologies, and the FDA guidance buoys pharma manufacturers. 

A session at the recent ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida focused on leveraging smart field systems to create value in process industries.

The number, size, and frequency of major automation projects may have decreased recently due to such factors as the low price of oil; but, if anything, the importance of executing these projects correctly has increased.

At the recent ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, the sessions on smart connected product design and manufacturing attracted a significant number of attendees and generated considerable discussion.

With the process field devices in the process industries, network technology remains essentially the same as it was in the 1990s or even the 1980s.

The declining oil prices are sending shockwaves throughout the oil & gas industry as companies struggle to realign their operations in the face of the precipitous decline in West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent crude oil prices. 

​Although operations and maintenance activities typically generate vast quantities of data, but most operational data from systems are stored within a process historian archive, or not at all, and prescriptive maintenance can help users who need the data to predict and respond to operating conditions or poorly performing assets. ​

In its purest form, the discipline and role of process control applies control theory to design systems that produce desired behaviors. 

A common theme that emerged at ARC Advisory Group’s recent Industry Forum in Orlando is that capital projects today frequently take too long to execute, cost too much, and involve too much risk, and the question is how to reduce project capital costs

Owners and operators of industrial control systems (ICS) face increasing challenges to improve the security of these systems to ensure their safe and reliable operation in the face of evolving threats, and they need to understand the ICS Cybersecurity position.