India’s IT industry continues its moderate growth trajectory as two-thirds of the IT services companies covered in the report exhibited above average growth. 

The Asset Administration Shell (AAS), a key concept of Industry 4.0 (or “Industrie 4.0” in German), is used to describe an asset electronically in a standardized manner.  Its purpose is to exchange asset-related data among industrial assets and between assets and production orchestration systems or engineering tools. 

As digital transformation adoption progresses, businesses have become increasingly dependent on technology and software for planning, managing, and operating their enterprises.  Global service providers (GSP), in turn, often have broad and deep talent pools to provide companies with the resources for execution.

Autonomous cars, trucks, and aircraft are creating new ways to move people and deliver packages. The widespread adoption of vehicle autonomy will profoundly change transportation.

In February the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) marked the fifth anniversary of its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). ARC Advisory Group strongly encourages anyone responsible for defining, implementing or operating a program to address cybersecurity risk to learn more about the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

The second day of ARC’s India Forum for the process and discrete industries Driving Digital Transformation in Industry and Cities, continued with the same momentum and keenness to understand new technologies generated on the first day.

Like never before, technology is helping the transportation industry become more sustainable and reduce overhead costs. This Insight reviews several innovative tech startup companies that have developed suitable next-generation solutions for the rail industry.

It’s reasonable for companies to be concerned about the security of IoT device deployments in industrial environments. ARC Advisory Group held a workshop on this critical issue at the 2019 ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida.  Experts in various aspects of industrial IoT cybersecurity shared their insights and addressed attendee questions. 

Addressing the crucial issue of cybersecurity in today’s smart buildings is a challenge.  Increasingly, end users are moving away from the older proprietary systems of the past and adopting edge-to-cloud computing architectures, thus raising the need for cybersecurity for smart buildings. 

In a recent survey, ARC Advisory Group polled 53 transportation executives to gain insights into measures of truckload effectiveness in North America.  Forty-five percent of the respondents had vice president or director titles; the rest were managers or had other titles.