Industry Best Practices & Definitions

Overview

Transportation management systems (TMS) are designed to help companies move freight from origin to destination efficiently, reliably, and cost effectively.  ARC Advisory Group recently co

How important is digital transformation for industry in the EU and worldwide and what role can politics play?  What are the EU digital transformation challenges?

At the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), the attendance and overall vendor presence was more muted, with much of the talk about Oil & Gas Operational Technology

India pharmaceutical adopting automation technologies despite its pharmaceutical sector having been traditionally based largely on manual operations.

In most plants today, contracting with the equipment manufacturer for maintenance usually results in unacceptably long periods of downtime for critical equipment, but OEM Service performance is improving with IIoT-enabled remote monitoring

In this video from the 2020 ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Dan Stauft of SugarCreek provides a down-to-earth presentation of how this large, privately held food processing company approached an automation upgrade with Legacy Devices on the Edge

Many countries around the world are embracing Industrial IoT/Industrie 4.0 and smart manufacturing initiatives.  China is no exception, and it wants to Standardize Smart Manufacturing 

COVID-19 has left the oil and gas industry short on demand, capital spending, and resources.  The industry was already experiencing the “great crew change” well before 2020, with large numbers of baby boomer workers retiring and nobody in line to take their place. 

The India pharmaceutical industry has demonstrated remarkable growth via both organic and inorganic routes.  The issues encountered at each step have proved to be turning points that have changed the mechanisms and prevalent trends of the sector.  

Industry standards mandate safety lifecycle management and most industrial organizations are aware of and comply with those standards.

The industry must develop strategies to prepare and develop the future manufacturing workforce with the younger workforce to fill the impending vacuum in the workforce.

Looking at the future of process automation ExxonMobil’s recent initiative is noteworthy for several reasons

According to ARC Advisory Group’s recent study on Supplier-Provided Automation Services, although currently a small segment of the overall market, remote automation monitoring is one of the faster growing segments in this space, indicating increasing user acceptance and need.

Currently, tens of thousands of control systems that are well past their expected lifespans are still installed and operating in industrial plants around the world, but it must be understood that DCS Migrations Justified by Business Case

What do plant safety and asset performance management (APM) have in common?  Asset performance management minimizes risks on safety. 

FDA is working with pharmaceutical manufacturers to help them identify and implement new, scientifically sound technologies, and the FDA guidance buoys pharma manufacturers. 

The number, size, and frequency of major automation projects may have decreased recently due to such factors as the low price of oil; but, if anything, the importance of executing these projects correctly has increased.

A session at the recent ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida focused on leveraging smart field systems to create value in process industries.

With the process field devices in the process industries, network technology remains essentially the same as it was in the 1990s or even the 1980s.

At the recent ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, the sessions on smart connected product design and manufacturing attracted a significant number of attendees and generated considerable discussion.

The declining oil prices are sending shockwaves throughout the oil & gas industry as companies struggle to realign their operations in the face of the precipitous decline in West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Brent crude oil prices. 

In its purest form, the discipline and role of process control applies control theory to design systems that produce desired behaviors. 

​Although operations and maintenance activities typically generate vast quantities of data, but most operational data from systems are stored within a process historian archive, or not at all, and prescriptive maintenance can help users who need the data to predict and respond to operating conditions or poorly performing assets. ​

A common theme that emerged at ARC Advisory Group’s recent Industry Forum in Orlando is that capital projects today frequently take too long to execute, cost too much, and involve too much risk, and the question is how to reduce project capital costs

Owners and operators of industrial control systems (ICS) face increasing challenges to improve the security of these systems to ensure their safe and reliable operation in the face of evolving threats, and they need to understand the ICS Cybersecurity position.