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Industrial cybersecurity has always been and remains a moving target, and this ARC Strategy Report, a compendium of selected ARC cybersecurity-related reports published since 2013, shares many of our key industrial and other cybersecurity-related learnings.

Artificial intelligence, connected systems, and smart city initiative—along with its promise to spark a creative revolution in fire alarm systems— are leading to more out-of-the-box technological innovation. 

Infor announced it is partnering with Snowflake, the cloud data platform, to help enterprises build automated data warehouses using the Birst full-stack analytics and BI platform.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) will acquire two Swiss engineering plastics recyclers, Minger Kunststofftechnik AG and Minger Plastic AG as a part of the company’s efforts to promote the circular economy.

A summary of our session on the business value of smart city platforms at the ARC Industry Forum.

ABB is launching the ABB Ability Condition Monitoring, a digital solution for measurement devices that will keep continuous gas analyzers under control to ensure clean air operations.

Sekisui Chemical and Sumitomo Chemical have agreed to form a strategic alliance to deploy technology for manufacturing polyolefin using waste as a raw material.

Nearly every software vendor whose products are used to create, transport, store, or analyze industrial data now uses “digital twin” to describe its solutions, and this ARC Strategy Report has the digital twin demystified.

Verizon has teamed up with Honeywell to help utilities speed up and simplify the deployment of new communication-enabled, intelligent sensors, controls and LTE smart meters for the smart electric grid.

Cisco unveiled a radical simplification in the way customers experience Cisco Security's portfolio and address complexity. Cisco is now offering customers an integrated cloud-native security platform, Cisco SecureX.

The Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP) has expanded, with new steering committee members and new working groups established.  OMP is an alliance founded in 2019 to help manufacturing companies accelerate innovation at scale through cross-industry collaboration, knowledge and data sharing as well as access to new technologies.

The Smart City challenges faced by San Diego are common to all Smart City designers and implementers worldwide. This is exactly why the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) has embarked on building a "Smart City Planning and Technology" standard.

Thanks to digital transformation, mid-market manufacturing firms now have more choices when considering ERP solutions  

To support economic growth and stability, we need to ensure that our transportation networks remain reliable and secure.  Digitalization will help, as will IoT in transportation.

Cisco announced advancements to its IoT portfolio that enable service provider partners to offer optimized management of cellular IoT connectivity environments and new 5G use-cases.