In this periodic report, ARC Advisory Group looks at several different manufacturing industries to identify the current CapEx trends in India. While ARC also publishes a separate global Capital Expenditures report, this report focuses exclusively on India’s capital expenditures for leading industries in the country, including automotive, cement, chemical & petrochemical, electric power, metals, oil & gas and refining, food & beverage, and pharmaceutical.

A new open source specification is available that looks to securely automate, scale, and simplify IoT device onboarding. Technology end users such as ExxonMobil, as well as several top-tier IoT suppliers, are looking to leverage the new specification in their installations.

Software solution and platform service providers who serve utilities and critical infrastructure asset owners have a mix of solutions, and are seeing increasing value in the rise of cross-industry use cases that help improve the risk profiles of a much wider general customer base across asset-intensive industries and manufacturers.

While cybersecurity programs protecting traditional information technology (IT) systems have been well-established for decades, operational technology (OT) systems must also be protected by a comprehensive cybersecurity program. The nature and constraints associated with OT mean that some details, areas of emphasis, and selection and approval processes may differ. Product and service suppliers must adjust their response when proposing solutions in this environment.

Plastic circularity is becoming a key step towards a more sustainable future. This report explores the current and future value of this industry, the processes, challenges and the technologies enabling companies to move forward.

As Wi-Fi functionality increases with each successive standard, its capabilities are starting to overlap with private cellular networks, whose adoption has slowed. Availability of the 6 GHz band will significantly increase the use of Wi-Fi in industry.

In this Insight, ARC Advisory Group includes the most recent quarterly results for major Indian IT suppliers that publicly report their results. The IT sector faced a challenging quarter with sluggish revenue growth, however there was some improvement in operating margins. This mixed performance could be due to various factors, such as market conditions, client spending patterns, or internal efficiencies.

To provide our Advisory Service clients with holistic coverage of the various industrial and automation markets we cover, ARC Advisory Group publishes indices of revenues from automation, and machinery companies as well as indices of revenues and CapEx from end user industries on a quarterly basis.

The maintenance of intelligent P&IDs is challenging due to the lack of interoperability between different engineering design software, often leading to data loss and reduced functionality when converting formats.

In this Special Economic Report, ARC Advisory Group includes the most recent quarterly results for major automation suppliers that publicly report their results. With this latest automation supply side-market update, ARC has increased the number and breadth of automation suppliers covered, based on a combination of publicly reported data and ARC’s own extensive research database. We have also added selected business intelligence visualizations.