Industry Best Practices & Definitions

The goal of a control room is to help ensure safe, efficient, and environmentally compliant operation and production control, and it is time the Operations Center Goes Next-Generation

This Insight provides one example of how a leading company implemented appropriate technologies to gain strategic business value through real-time manufacturing intelligence.

India’s pharmaceutical sector demonstrated remarkable growth via both organic and inorganic routes. 

ARC Advisory Group often hears questions about how operator effectiveness helps the manufacturing enterprise, and the answer is very basic: operator effectiveness depends on training simulators

One of the biggest challenges facing companies today is being able to integrate, contextualize, and use data from disparate sources. EMI helps subsea data collection by including components that integrate, contextualize, analyze, and visualize the data.

 We are entering an era in which companies can detect supply chain risks much more quickly than in the past, but why supply chain risk management

The automation of industrial processes is a well-established practice, drawing from multiple engineering and technical disciplines, but process safety and cybersecurity convergence presents automation challenges. 

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Industrial facilities collect lots and lots of data, both from the sensors connected to the control system and other sources, including edge devices in the plant and remote devices in the

Today’s equipment manufacturers also often incorporate advanced science into their R&D efforts to optimize the performance of their equipment, and IIoT with PDM can address this complexity

Simulation and/or virtual reality have proven to be highly effective approaches for training our workforce to operate complex, high-value systems, but Virtual Reality -Based Trainers benefit from Haptics

The term “model” may be one of the most overused words in technical (and other) documents. However, ambiguity does not always detract from the usefulness that models can play to convey important concepts, especially Reference Models

ARC Advisory Group participated in NTPC’s third edition of Global Energy Technology Summit (GETS), titled “Redefining Power Generation Landscape - The 5R Way.” The theme of this three-day Summit was a Sustainable Future

Partly in response to overall automation market conditions, but largely in response to evolving user challenges and requirements, major suppliers are expanding their automation-related service capabilities to focus on Operational Excellence and IIoT

When first introduced back in the 1970s, truck fleet operators used basic GPS-based telematics solutions to remotely monitor the location and speed of their truck tractors and trailers in real time.  Many still do, but now they are Leveraging Big Data to Generate New Insights:

Small and mid-size manufacturing companies are showing an increasing interest in digital transformation, but How Is the Road to Digital Transformation ?

Asset performance management (APM) for operational excellence was discussed in-depth at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando.   Bruce Taylor, Director Digital Transformation, Sinclair Oil, looked at APM from a totally different perspective.

In today's competitive industrial environment, asset-intensive organizations are constantly facing pressure to increase availability, throughput, and product quality. This makes improved and better asset management and maintenance a key objective.

While SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) technology has been around for quite a while, the question remains, Where Is SCADA Heading?

Future demand for both electric vehicles (EVs) and the associated electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) will, of course, be driven by the increased adoption of electric vehicles by individuals and commercial fleets, and the demand for the EV charging infrastructure.

A wave of digital transformation is sweeping through the industrial sector, and ARC Discusses, What Are the Strategies for Transforming Production Operations With 21st Century Software

Automation suppliers continue to see robust revenue growth, posting overall year-to-year gains of nearly 6 percent versus the third quarter of 2017.  While the market is well along on its recovery from the oil price collapse of a few years ago, Supplier Revenue Growth Moderates in Q3 2018

The worldwide enterprise software market continued to grow in the second quarter of 2018.  This market expanded on the back of relentless innovation and available capital.

It’s become somewhat of a year-end tradition for ARC Advisory Group to predict the five or six top technology trends that are likely to play out in the coming year for our Advisory Service clients.

Several improvements and innovations are driving the adoption of Industrial IoT (IIoT), helping create a solid value proposition for end users and GPS Asset Tracking Is A Smart Approach for Better Asset Management

A variety of factors are influencing the growing awareness and interest in analytics by maintenance groups.  Today’s industrial organizations see the value that effective data management, KPIs, and Analytics in EAM can bring.

Many industrial process plants are designed to run steady state for very long periods of time, thus providing a business with sustainable economic advantage.  Typically, in these instances, the on-line equipment utilization will be in the high 80 to low 90 percent range.  The remaining 5 to 15 percent of the available time is allocated to planned maintenance and grade changes.

Plant operations in the process industries have evolved over time toward Autonomous Operations by using generally well-integrated and well-applied digital automation technologies, such as distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC), safety integrated systems (SIS), and manufacturing execution systems (MES).  These plant-level technologies all fall under the domain of operations technology or “OT,” as distinguished from more enterprise-level information technology, or “IT”.   In general, OT focuses on safe, deterministic, and high availa

Blockchain technology has found industrial applications with clear business benefits.  Independent entities with common interests and pain points have improved their operational performance by sharing trusted, immutable data with rapid visibility.  Applying Blockchain in industry provides the infrastructure for applications to manage owner-ship, which includes: