Automation’s success can be attributed to the value it delivers.  As technology has progressed, manufacturing automation has proliferated from basic control on the plant or factory floor to today’s advanced applications, thus opening the door to automation's vulnerability.  

Emerging blockchain technology enables members of a consortium to share data in a secure and trusted environment to enable improvements in operational performance. To maximize the effectiveness of a blockchain-enabled supply chain track and trace solution and help ensure that the goals of the consortium members are met, the processing nodes of the supply chain must be included.

A major technology disruption is approaching in the world of industrial automation.  This disruption (software container technology) has the potential to render long-held supplier business models obsolete.  It will also require suppliers of all types to adopt emerging software technologies and practices from the cloud computing domain. 

A wave of digital transformation is sweeping through the industrial sector.  Driven by innovative and potentially disruptive technologies, and by an emerging understanding of possible new ways of serving customers and competing in the marketplace, industrial companies are modernizing their IT and OT software.

Future demand for both electric vehicles (EVs) and the associated electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) will, of course, be driven by the increased adoption of electric vehicles by individuals and commercial fleets.

A variety of factors are influencing the growing awareness and interest in analytics in EAM by maintenance groups.  Today’s industrial organizations see the value that effective data management, KPIs, and both predictive and prescriptive analytics can bring. 

Several improvements and innovations are driving the adoption of Industrial IoT (IIoT), helping create a solid value proposition for end users. Various industries are now adopting advanced IIoT technologies to bring improvement in a range of different areas.  One such area is GPS asset tracking. 

The worldwide enterprise software market continued to grow in the second quarter of 2018.  This market expanded on the back of relentless innovation and available capital.  Once again, exchange rates played a role, with the strengthening of the euro relative to the US dollar. 

It’s become somewhat of a year-end tradition for ARC Advisory Group to predict the top five or six technology trends that are likely to play out in the coming year for our Advisory Service clients.

While SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) technology has been around for quite a while, today's SCADA systems are easier to integrate and provide improved capabilities and functionalities.