Digital Transformation Viewpoints

Welcome back to another cybersecurity-focused episode of the ARC Digital Transformation Podcast. In this episode, we speak to Randy Armstrong, director of IT operations at the OPC Foundation .  OPC has a very solid cybersecurity foundation and Randy has been at the center of this for some time, giving us an excellent summary of the many different layers of cybersecurity within OPC UA.  Security is...

In the latest cybersecurity podcast, Sid Snitkin, leader of the cybersecurity practice at ARC, interviews Radiflow Chief Information Security Officer Rani Kehat and ServiceNow head of product James Destro.  This was a wide-ranging discussion covering the convergence of IT and OT cybersecurity, the skills gap, incident response, and more. It's also a good introduction to Radiflow and ServiceNo...

In this podcast, Tony Catterson, Manager, Pilz New Zealand, tells ARC’s Bob Gill why he is so excited about the digitalization opportunities in the world of machine safety. And from his several decades of experience in the sector, Tony gives his take on the current level of machine safety awareness across different industries and offers three key lessons for manufacturers looking to ensure a safe...

In this podcast hosted by Bob Gill, ARC’s General Manager for Southeast Asia & Friedhelm Best, Vice President of Asia Pacific Region for HIMA discuss the link between digitalization and process safety. Friedhelm explains why, in the era of Industry 4.0, safety systems need to be just as smart as production processes.  In this 30 minute podcast a wide variety of other aspects & insightful t...

ARC Advisory Group’s, Peter Reynolds discusses Workforce Competency with Honeywell’s Jennifer Prgesa, Product Line Leader and Carlos Pazos, Solutions Marketing Manager. Learn about how companies are accelerating their digital transformation journey’s through Workforce Competency tools. Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast? Do you have an intriguing or thought provoking topic you&apo...

Many people are familiar with CESMII, the US-based nonprofit smart manufacturing institute. But there are a number of details that many people are less familiar with regarding how CESMII is funded, how does CESMII work with industrial organizations outside of the US, and what other organizations does CESMII partner with. Join Craig Resnick, Vice President, ARC Advisory Group as he interviews John...

Janice Abel, Principal, ARC Advisory Group and Morgan Bowling, Sr. Analytics Engineer, Seeq discuss advanced analytics and machine learning (ML) innovations for process manufacturing data. Ms. Bowling explains how Seeq, an advanced analytics software application, is transforming the ability of process engineers and subject matter experts to quickly find and share insights from data in process hist...

ARC Senior Analyst, Inderpreet Shoker interviews Vincent Higgins, Global Director for Honeywell’s Workforce Excellence portfolio to discuss trends associated with worker productivity and competency, and related offerings from Honeywell. Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast? Do you have an intriguing or thought provoking topic you'd like to discuss on our podcast? Please contact...

In Singapore, Jonas Berge, Senior Director, Applied Technology, Emerson Automation Solutions, tells ARC’s Bob Gill about how technology developments in areas including wireless process instruments, networks and protocols, advanced analytics apps, augmented and virtual reality, are enabling industrial plants to more easily implement new and powerful digital ways of working and facilitating transfor...

Partnerships are an essential part of the industrial ecosystem that accelerate the development and introduction of solutions that are required to help manufacturers and processors advance with their digital transformation journey. But what are some examples of success stories that result from these partnerships for digital transformation solutions, is there differentiated value that is derived as...

In this podcast, ARC Vice President Craig Resnick talks with Baker Hughes’ Michelle Rosinski, Senior Product Manager of Services, Nexus Controls, to discuss the role of data analytics in industrial control applications.   The podcast will cover an explanation of the different kinds of data analytics being used in conjunction with industrial control applications today, examples of how each type of...

From Singapore, Bob Gill talks to Raimund Klein, Executive Vice President and Head of Digital Industries ASEAN, Siemens, about how initiatives such as the Advance Manufacturing Transformation Center (AMTC) and the ZerOne. Design digital factory consultancy are accelerating the digitalization of industries across Southeast Asia.  Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast? Do you have an i...

The ability for APC software to reduce process variability, product give away and optimize against process constraints is well understood. Often this optimization has also been accomplished in silos from other production stakeholders. Today and especially in the volatile energy future, in the downstream refining and chemicals industry, the benefits of steady operation will be managed in real-time...

ARC Sr. Analyst, Paula Hollywood, interviews newly launched Itus Digital Co-founder and CEO, Joe Nichols, to discuss the motivation for launching an APM company at this stage of market maturity, the importance of creating asset strategies, the development process and how the Itus  asset strategies drives APM value.  Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast? Do you have an intriguing or...

ARC Sr. Analyst, Paula Hollywood, discussed the concept of Design for Reliability with Bentley Systems, Sandra DiMatteo, Digital Twin Solution Marketing Director, and Marie Getsug, Asset Management Consultant and Program Manager at Jacobs. Design for Reliability (DFR) blends engineering principles and subject matter expertise (SME) to eliminate defects and verify robust design. Would you like to b...

ARC Senior Analyst, Inderpreet Shoker interviews Zameer Patel, Director of Product Management and Carlos Pazos, Product Marketing Manager at Honeywell Connected Industrials, to discuss asset performance management systems, related trends and offerings from Honeywell. Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast? Do you have an intriguing or thought provoking topic you'd like to discuss...

There is no question that the digital transformation journey requires end users and OEMs to obtain much more production and machine information, which means that more industrial components need to have the ability to collect production operations or machine data, process that data into meaningful information, and send that information to the edge, to a control system, to a cloud, or some combinati...

Even before COVID 19, process manufacturers were facing challenges, such as market and commodity uncertainty, rapid fluctuations in demand, supply chain disruptions, and becoming more efficient and sustainable. During COVID 19, those challenges were all greatly magnified, leading process manufacturers to strongly focus on Operational Resilience. So how do process manufacturers look for ways to red...

Explore the business dynamics in the oil and gas industry - particularly considering the current pandemic - in this podcast.  Ralph Rio, ARC Advisory Group interviews Manish Sharma, Business Head Americas for Energy & Resources, at Tata Consultancy Services.   Oil and Gas companies have evolved in our new digital era and now with the global pandemic are acting as a catalyst for digital transfo...

ARC Senior Analyst, Inderpreet Shoker interviews Aneesa Muthana, President and CEO at Pioneer Service, to discuss diversity, misconception about diversity, related challenges, as well as strategies to promote diversity and inclusion in the manufacturing world.  Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast? Do you have an intriguing or thought provoking topic you'd like to discuss on ou...

ARC Senior Analyst, Inderpreet Shoker interviews David Griffin, Solution Sales Leader for Connected Worker at Honeywell and Unnikrishnan Poduval, Product Manager at Honeywell, to discuss connected worker benefits and related solutions from Honeywell.  Would you like to be a guest on our growing podcast? Do you have an intriguing or thought provoking topic you'd like to discuss on our podcast?...

'Neural' concepts are starting to be used in various areas of manufacturing to model complex processes. In this interview with Sreenivasa Chakravarti, VP, Manufacturing Business Practice at Tata Consultancy Services by Ralph Rio, you will gain a better understanding of how embracing the biological neural behaviors can help manufacturing firms. Today, manufacturing enterprises are anchors...

Industrial and infrastructure operations are facing enormous challenges globally, all of which are being greatly accelerated by COVID-19.   Consumer demand shifts, digital workforce deployment, secure remote operations enablement, and real-time supply chain management are just some of the challenges companies face.  So what actions must industrial and infrastructure operations take to instill conf...

Tim gives an update on state of upstream market where the price of crude oil had unprecedented drop down to $zero per barrel. Rick asks Cindy about tools available to home workers with the needed speed and security, tracking location of people and vehicles, saving electric costs for lift pumps, compressors, and Vapor Recovery systems, efficiently operating drill rigs, Cindy described a case histor...

In this non-technical ARC podcast, Larry O'Brien, Vice President at ARC and Eric Cosman, President of ISA and co-chair of the ISA 99 committee, discuss that while standards (and cybersecurity standards in particular) tend to be complex, arcane, and "not designed for civilians," the IEC/ISA 62443 cybersecurity series of standards was designed to be easily understood and thus readily...