On September 16, 2019, the ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering) Boston Chapter held its annual ISPE Boston Pharma/Biotech Product Show at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

Effective patch management is an important element of a comprehensive security program for industrial control systems (ICS). The complexity and criticality of this environment present specific challenges for asset owners.

In this ARC Advisory Service report, we’ll look at all terms and concepts and examine how they fit within the context of the digital transformation taking place across industry and business, especially for the intelligent edge.

ARC Advisory Group is following several ongoing trends in DCS.  These range from highly mature ones, such as remote I/O enclosures to newly emerging trends such as the virtualization of control functionality.

Shell Projects & Technology talked about an approach they are exploring to integrate cybersecurity risk assessment into traditional process hazard analysis (PHA) methods.

Most industrial/commercial asset management systems focus on maintaining manufacturing or process assets.  This applies whether the asset is a machine, pump, compressor, wind turbine, building, or a steam power system. 

Finding the right information, at the right time, and making it accessible to the right people are critical to keeping these functions operating at optimum levels, and thus enters the need for extending analytics to EAM.

The Industry of Things World Asia event, organized by Berlin-based we.CONECT, returned to Singapore this July.  As indicated by its title, the event focuses on the industrial strand of IoT.

Machinery markets are at a turning point in the business cycle, and our Machinery Index is contracting for the first time since Q4 2016 on a Y-o-Y basis.

ARC Advisory Group’s recent survey-based research captures the profile of today’s fulfillment environment and provides insights into the pressures on, and priorities of, practitioners and how they are adjusting processes and investing in technology to align their operations with changing requirements. This is warehousing’s competitive evolution.