Digital Transformation Viewpoints

How does digital transformation and digital twins help oil and gas companies achieve the agility needed for today’s rapid business dynamics including the COVID-19 pandemic?  This podcast is an interview with Jan Johansson, Oil & Gas Industry Advisor, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) who explores how to successfully emerge from the current chaos using digital twins and TCS’ Business 4.0 for impr...

The Oil & Gas industry witnessed an immediate drop in demand and prices along with an oversupply of product as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the industry has begun to recover, this “New Normal” economy will require Oil & Gas companies to reinvent themselves, leveraging Digital Transformation to achieve their productivity and profitability goals. In this podcast, ARC Vice Pres...

International Maintenance Conference (IMC) is a leading conference for reliability & maintenance professionals organized by Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine. The most recent conference was held in Florida in December 2019. ARC analysts Paula Hollywood and Inderpreet Shoker attended the 34th IMC conference. While Paula has been a long time member of the IMC community, it was the first tim...

Because of COVID-19 and the constant threat of natural disasters, there is increasing awareness of the importance of remote monitoring and management and mobility to reduce business disruption.  In this podcast, ARC Advisory Group’s Ed O’Brien delves more deeply into these topics with Kevin Price and Navin Kulkarni from Infor.  Kevin Price: Technical Product Evangelist & Product Strategist at...

ARC’s Research Director, Mark Sen Gupta, recently interviewed Matilda Steiner-Arvidsson, Global Product Manager for Manufacturing Operations Management Solutions, with ABB.  They discussed the challenges of operator procedures, customer expectations, keeping pace with trends, and how ABB’s recently released Ability Augmented Field Procedures solution addresses all of these. Would you like to be a...

Industrial manufacturers of all sizes have been forced to change their future priorities significantly. With the increased volatility and uncertainty with staffing and resources due to Covid-19,  the need to maintain an intelligent approach to Operations Management is critical. Operations Management Systems provide the foundation for a company’s standard for operations, enhanced compliance assuran...

When you hear about X-rays and CT scans, most of us think about healthcare.  But did you know that these technologies are also used in industry for inspection as well?  In this podcast, ARC Vice President Craig Resnick interviews two leaders from Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes Business: Dr. Oliver Brunke, Product Management Team Leader; and  Dr. Holger Roth, Senior Training Manager, to discu...

Podcast Interview with Janice Abel, Principal Consultant, ARC Advisory Group and Francisco Almada Lobo, CEO and Founder, Critical Manufacturing on the Digital Transformation, Industrie 4.0 and MES in Manufacturing. 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 the Host, Colin Masso...

Listen to GE Digital’s CEO Pat Byrne provide his thoughts on digital transformation during a pandemic with ARC Advisory Group’s Craig Resnick.  Pat covers what he is hearing from GE Digital’s customers, and how they are responding to the unpredictability and disruption caused by the pandemic.  Pat will address ideas how its software can help companies keep their employees safe and operations runni...

Digital Transformation Podcast Interview with Janice Abel, ARC Advisory Group and Antonia Hansen, Operations Coordinator, HanAra Software. Industrial Data and Operations Innovation are an important part of the Digital Transformation.  Listen to the this podcast with Janice Abel and Antonia Hansen, Operations Coordinator, HanAra Software as they describe how modern industrial data platforms are pro...

Today, COVID-19 has proved to be a major disruption to global supply chains, and perhaps the human supply chain is most vulnerable. Engineering, Production and many other functional roles typically required to support plant operations now find themselves working from home and desperate to find ways to access advanced applications and other systems and continue to provide their expertise and guidan...

We live in a world dependent on Lithium Ion batteries for the operation of products ranging from mobile phones, laptops, and electric vehicles. The quality of these batteries is essential for the functional reliability of these products, so it is critical that these batteries face the most vigorous inspection process possible.  Computed tomography is a leading technology to do Lithium Ion battery...

In this ARC Digital Transformation podcast, we  we talk with Al Gresch and Michael Garel from Accruent to review how important #EAM and #CMMS can be to the success of Healthcare Technology Management (#HTM).  In this podcast, we also discuss Accruent’s new app that offers information on ventilator predictive maintenance data for free to hospitals, to help them manage the impact of COVID-19.   Woul...

The heart of the digital transformation is the digital twin.  In this podcast with Janice Abel, Principal Analyst, ARC Advisory Group and Eugene Spiropoulos, Digital Transformation Consulting Leader from Yokogawa, discusses digital twins and the digital transformation from a technology, people and processes point of view. Yokogawa is involved in solving some of the industrial challenges using thei...

The worlds of safety and cybersecurity have always been closely related.  The emergence of TRISIS/TRITON malware that was specifically directed at process safety systems cast a spotlight on this topic two years ago, but the areas of convergence go way beyond the world of specialized process safety systems to include many other areas of operations technology in the world of industry and critical in...

The ramifications of the spread of the COVID-19 (virus Coronavirus) can be felt around the globe. The effects are far-reaching and can be felt in both human and economic terms. And with the latter, effective asset management is more important than ever. 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 podcas...

Especially now, manufacturing is rapidly changing, and needs to adapt quickly with innovative technologies that scale quickly and improve outcomes.  This podcast is an interview with Janice Abel, Principal Analyst, ARC Advisory Group and Jon Sobel, CEO and Co-Founder, Sight Machine discussing Digital Twins for optimizing manufacturing and how the Sight Machine technology is helping manufacturers w...

This Podcast with Janice Abel, Principal Analyst from ARC Advisory group interviews, Michael Risse, VP and Founding partner at Seeq about the Digital Transformation in Manufacturing. Seeq is an advanced analytic application that enables engineers and SMEs the ability to solve challenges when working with industrial process data across all verticals with time series data. The company has grown subs...

Mahendra Sundarraj, IT architect at SunPower, a manufacturer of high efficiency solar panels, discusses the strategies used to handle huge volumes of data with Janice Abel, Principal analyst from ARC Advisory Group. The podcast covers the entire data architecture is based on a hybrid cloud architecture that uses multiple terabytes of data to handle the huge volume of data and their data growth fro...

At the recent 2020 ARC Advisory Group Orlando Forum, ARC Vice President Craig Resnick interviewed Inductive Automation’s Chief Strategy Officer Don Pearson and its Co-Director of Sales Engineering Travis Cox.  Inductive Automation is an industrial software company with a focus on both information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT).  Inductive Automation’s flagship line is its Ignition...

ARC Advisory Group conducted an industry survey back in 2019. We learned that out of 365 industry practitioners 2/3 believe reliability-centered maintenance is not doing enough to improve reliability. We also learned the operations department has almost as much impact on plant asset performance as the maintenance organization does. When we spoke with leaders in the process industries they believe...

Organizations in the process industries in refining, chemicals, petrochemicals face clear and relentless pressure to improve profitability while managing operational risk, maximizing asset integrity, and enabling operational discipline.  What is not so clear is how industrial organizations can take advantage of new technologies and an intelligent approach to gain more value from their data, assets...

In recent years, thanks to further advances in digitalization, the ongoing convergence of OT and IT, and the overall digital transformation of industry and infrastructure, the process industries are gradually moving from “automated” to “autonomous” operations in selected areas.  This may also be referred to as "Autonomation". This move presents the opportunity to further advance safe ope...