With more than 200 attendees, the cybersecurity workshops at the ARC Industry Forum in Orlando earlier this year provided a strong kickoff for the entire event.  The lively workshop discussions covered a wide range of important cybersecurity topics.  These included the current state of cybersecurity in industry, trends and developments in standards, IT-OT convergence, securing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and ensuring the security of smart cities initiatives.    

Overall, automation suppliers saw continued robust growth during the fourth quarter of 2017, increasing by nearly 5 percent compared to the same quarter the previous year.

The increasing convergence of operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) across industry and infrastructure was a recurring theme at the recent ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida.  ARC Advisory Group Vice President Craig Resnick led a well-attended session that focused on the ramifications of OT-IT convergence in today’s industrial plants.

The forecasts in our Summer 2017 Automation Index report played out largely as anticipated. 

BASF created a collaborative “Bulk Trucking Symposium” and implemented technology to improve the situation for BASF, its customers, and its carriers. BASF wanted supply chain excellence.

Strange perhaps to discuss management of change (MOC) at a technology conference, but ARC Advisory Group did just that recently at its 22nd Annual Industry Forum in the “Digitization of Asset Performance Management” workshop. 

At the recent ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, the session on Building the Smart City of the Future highlighted technologies and trends that both define and drive the building of smart cities.

The worldwide enterprise software market continued to show significant growth in the fourth quarter of 2017. 

The worlds of process safety and cybersecurity are closely intertwined.