We have many opportunities to capture energy savings in our industrial, commercial, and residential buildings. Some are as basic as installing programmable thermostats or automated lighting systems to improve the way we operate the HVAC and lighting systems.

Blockchain technology, a relatively new approach, differs in fundamental ways from traditional tools used to build collaborative business applications.

As discussed in several recent ARC Advisory Group Insights and blog-posts, Open Process Automation was once again a hot topic at the 2018 ARC Industry Forum last month in Orlando, Florida.

Tank farm automation for oil movement and storage in refinery off-sites spans multiple technologies.

The Economic Survey 2017–18 in India, the government’s report card on economic performance in the past year, was a precursor to the annual Union Budget; i.e., the India Budget 2018.

Often, Kaizen teams for Lean Six Sigma lack the data and corresponding analysis needed to drive consensus and convince others to adopt the project recommendations. Industrial IoT (IIoT) facilitates fact-based decisions, a fundamental theme of both Six Sigma DMAIC and Lean Manufacturing.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is hot. Billions in venture capital have been invested in AI firms, some of them focused on solving supply chain problems.

A company incurs capital expenditure (CapEx) – the capital utilized to buy fixed assets or to add to the value of existing fixed assets – to acquire or upgrade physical assets on plant and machinery, land and buildings, property, and such others. In this periodic report, ARC Advisory Group look at a number of different manufacturing industries to identify trends in CapEx.

The respective investment activities of companies in different industries varies strongly. In this intermediate update to our periodic report, ARC Advisory Group looks at different discrete manufacturing industries to identify trends in capital expenditures (CapEx) and their drivers.

For more than a decade, experts in the automation and information technology disciplines have given considerable attention and effort to protecting industrial control and related information systems from cybersecurity risks sand cyber-attacks.