The world response to the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to be the most significant compelling event affecting all aspects of life.  For manufacturers, the failure to evaluate their own responses and the subsequent effects will lead to missed opportunities for themselves and their customers.

In this Insight, ARC analysts Fabian Wanke, Florian Güldner, and David Humphrey consider questions about the cloud vs. edge and discuss their impact on automation architectures.

At the recent OSIsoft PI World conference in Gothenburg, Sweden,  Lonza’s Global Operational Technology Manager, Dr. Tobias Merz gave an excellent presentation describing the Lonza Specialty Ingredients segment’s journey to Digital Manufacturing.

Many end users do not fully realize the benefits of deploying a true smart city platform to tie together the many sources of disparate data in operating domains.  Smart city platforms offer the potential to reduce maintenance costs and installed cost of systems.

Today’s challenging cyber landscape demands an active defense that can respond rapidly to anomalies.  Sharing cyber information is an essential part of these efforts.  

A global upswing started in 2017, and the momentum continued in 2018.  However, 2019 marked a turning point in the business cycle for many discrete manufacturing industries.

A global upswing in the process and hybrid industries began in 2017, and the momentum continued till 2019. However, growth in the process industries is now flattening with the hybrid industries only increasing by low single digits.

Augmented reality (AR) uses displays, cameras, various types of sensors, and software to augment the user’s real-world environment with artificial perceptual experience.

In their joint keynote presentation at the 2020 ARC Industry Forum, numerous executives discussed their Thoughts on Digital Transformation and the close collaboration between their respective manufacturing operations and corporate IT groups.