Industrial innovation is accelerating as companies focus on energy transition and sustainability, digital transformation, and Industrial AI. Resilience has been prioritized in the supply chain and throughout production operations. Industrial companies need to transform their business, but the reality is a myriad of shifting priorities, goals, and objectives. Complicating this, available technologies are evolving at an ever-increasing pace.
ARC's Advisory Services deliver a comprehensive portfolio of knowledge- and data-based products and services to keep you ahead of the latest industry dynamics and technological changes. Our analysts sift through the clamor of market hype to deliver clear, concise, information about key trends and technologies. We'll keep you up to speed on the latest operational trends and technologies, help you improve performance and decision making, and reduce investment risk.
ARC Advisory Group understands that each company has different visions and goals. By providing a set of flexible, client-specific services, we put our globally respected market leadership and expertise to work for you. We offer:
- Industrial AI Readiness Assessment
- AI-Powered Digital Transformation Service
- Executive Insights Service
- ARC MarketMap for Technology Products & Services
- Technology and Supplier Selection Guides
- Industrial Consulting Services
- Open Digital Ecosystem (ODE) Working Group
- ARC Industry Leadership Forums
- ARC Research
Industrial AI Readiness Assessment
This comprehensive online assessment tool is designed to provide industrial organizations with a clear, evidence-based framework to benchmark their current AI maturity, identify specific strengths and weaknesses, and chart an actionable path toward greater sophistication and value realization. The methodology is rigorously grounded in the empirical data of the 2025 ARC Pacesetter Survey and the conceptual leadership of ARC Advisory Group's established frameworks, including the Industrial-grade Data Fabric (IDF) and the archetype of the future industrial professional. This assessment is designed not as a simple scorecard, but as a strategic guide for every leader tasked with navigating the transformative journey of Industrial AI.
AI-Powered Digital Transformation Service
Industrial organizations today are navigating a world reshaped by AI, autonomous operations, robotics, digital twins, and advanced automation. To stay competitive, leaders must not only adopt new technologies—they must turn them into measurable business value. ARC’s AI-Powered Digital Transformation Service (DTS) gives technology users the strategic intelligence, expert guidance, market data, and best‑practice frameworks needed to lead and win in this new era. Our service delivers a comprehensive portfolio of knowledge‑ and data‑based deliverables, keeping you ahead of rapid industry change. Supported by ARC’s decades of industrial expertise across AI, digitalization, sustainability, cybersecurity, and operational excellence, DTS helps you accelerate innovation while reducing risk.
Executive Insights Service
Address your critical business performance and technology investment challenges with the ARC Executive Insight Service. This executive-level service enables industrial companies to improve decision-making related to digital transformation, energy transition and sustainability, cybersecurity, and other dynamic market conditions. Via cadenced meetings and collaborative workshops, we’ll provide you with tailored, strategic advice and data specific to your company and interests, relevant peer introductions and executive gatherings, and agnostic vendor assessments. Additionally, you’ll gain exclusive access to our Pacesetter and Technology Archetype reports, with best practices data of peer leaders and in-depth technology solution-type comparisons.
The Executive Insights Service is designed to provide strategic and practical support to a senior-level team within your organization. Dynamic by design, the service supports your priorities throughout the year as they evolve to support your business objectives and goals.
ARC MarketMap for Technology Products & Services
ARC Advisory Group has developed a structured framework for evaluating suppliers across global operational and engineering technologies for industrial markets. It provides an objective, visual representation of how suppliers perform today and how well they are positioned for the future, we call it ARC MarketMap. Each MarketMap integrates ARC’s deep domain expertise, rigorous research methods, capability analysis, and industry insights to support technology buyers, operational leaders, and strategic decision‑makers.
Technology and Supplier Selection Guides
ARC Technology Supplier Evaluation and Selection Guides can help a technology selection team find common ground, with lower risk and in far less time. What technologies should you adopt and what suppliers should you work with to help position your company to take advantage of the latest round of technology changes while prioritizing your investments wisely?
- Who are the leading suppliers for various operational and engineering technologies?
- How should I go about selecting a technology or a supplier for a specific application?
- What type of partnership contract should I sign with a supplier or solution provider?
Industrial Consulting Services
On a project basis, ARC designs solutions to your key business challenges. Leverage a range of services, including workshops, maturity assessments, technology planning, benchmarking, and supplier selection, ensuring a best practices approach to problem solving. Examples of industrial consulting engagements we typically are called upon to provide include:
- Supplier evaluation and selection
- Plant performance assessment
- Technology and architecture planning
- Project planning and cost justification
- Digital transformation workshops
- Cybersecurity workshops
ARC's Open Digital Ecosystem (ODE) Working Group
The Open Digital Ecosystem Working Group (WG) provides a forum for asset owners whose purpose is to collaborate, articulate users' needs, and speak in a focused voice to help vendors overcome the limitations of digital twins. Together, the WG will align on key industry needs and challenges and share consistent messaging with vendors on that topic so that they can support users more effectively. The WG will help vendors see opportunities to play and be profitable in an "open" approach to the digital twin ecosystem and address gaps in the data and workflows across the asset lifecycle, which causes losses in productivity, quality, and sustainability.
ARC Industry Leadership Forums & Summits
ARC hosts annual Industry Leadership Forums around the world in the US, Europe, and Asia. The North America Industry Leadership Forum, held in Orlando in early February, is the industry’s premier networking and information gathering event. This is the place to discover the latest trends and technologies, see new products key suppliers have developed, compare notes with other industrial companies, and catch up with old friends. These Forums are designed to provide a strategic vision to help industry executives follow the direction of the industry, as well as provide a latest update for IT, supply chain, engineering, maintenance, and operational executives.
ARC's Industry Leadership Summits bring together senior managers and executives to network with each other, showcase solutions, and share best practices and lessons learned on their digital transformation journeys. Covering topics relevant to the industrial sector, each Summit is for senior managers striving to realize business value from technology investments
ARC Research Reports
ARC Research Reports are easy to read yet packed with valuable information. The reports are praised by Advisory Service clients as being worth the price of the service in themselves. Published weekly and monthly, these reports alert you to important events and trends, with analysis of its impact and recommendations for success.
Client Success Stories
Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning Workshop Guides Vendor Selection
Guiding a Major End User Through a Large-Scale Migration and Modernization Project
Identifying Techniques to Improve Operator Effectiveness Across a Fleet of Process Plants
System Architecture and Strategy
We've found that a lot of the concepts that have been developed by ARC over the years have become foundation concepts for a lot of our planning.
