Nearly every software vendor whose products are used to create, transport, store, or analyze industrial data now uses “digital twin” to describe its solutions, and this ARC Strategy Report has the digital twin demystified.

To support economic growth and stability, we need to ensure that our transportation networks remain reliable and secure.  Digitalization will help, as will IoT in transportation.

Industrial 5G, the next-generation cellular technology, is getting a lot of attention these days and justifiably so, and this ARC Insight explores the technology behind industrial 5G and potential applications.

Private and permissioned blockchain configurations have been deployed for all 36 industrial blockchain consortia examined by ARC Advisory Group. 

The 50th World Economic Forum, themed  Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World, was held from 21-24 January in Davos, Switzerland. 

As we learned this week at the 24th annual ARC Industry Forum, despite some initial false starts, questionable implementations, and organizational barriers to digital transformation, digital transformation is now beginning to deliver tangible business benefits in plants, factories, infrastructure, and municipalities around the world.

Smart cities can be viewed as a system of systems. These include smart lighting systems, building automation systems, emergency management systems, security and access control systems, intelligent grids, renewable power, water treatment and supply, transportation, and more.  The smart city concept is not new, but what is new is new, is the concept of smart city platform strategies to unify these systems for users.

The term industrial transformation is sometimes used to describe digital transformation in plants, factories, mills, and other industrial environments. Although the basic concept is the same, the implications can be quite different.

The recent AVEVA World Conference in Orlando, Florida focused on the accelerated digital transformation that is shaping today's dynamic industrial businesses. 

Against a background of negative reports for Germany’s economy in 2019 and 2020, the SPS trade fair opened its gates in late November to welcome visitors from around the world.