WW Automation Strategies

Digital twins lack KPIs to manage their effectiveness. A confusion matrix provides a specific table layout for visualization of the performance of a digital twin algorithm.

In digital economies, the strategic, timely and proper use of technology and data makes a company competitive

New, advanced functions that converge the previously separate worlds of operational technology and information technology are changing how people work in industry.

The entire site operates autonomously monitored from a remote location by just two human operators.

Procedural automation techniques are well established and the benefits well documented, but industry has been slow in adopting these best practices.

Dow’s digital strategy is to move from simply being a chemical company that “does digital” to become a digital developer of new materials.

Some concepts may be foreign to old-school professionals but that’s not the case for the incoming generation of engineers.

Industrial IoT-enabled tools can help improve collaboration between the two groups in pursuit of common organizational goals.

Four initiatives at its vaccine-manufacturing facilities aim to save money.

Process industries have unique challenges. BASF and Dow explain how they address these challenges and waltz forward.

End users should consider forming a cross-functional team to address physical-, cyber- and safety-related risks. At the very minimum you need to make sure that existing discipline...

With fines and even criminal convictions at risk, industrial organizations should make serious efforts to ensure that their safety systems are current.

It is important for users to start small with a proof-of-concept project and not try to “end world hunger” overnight.

Humans are good at ad hoc intervention and non-linear reasoning. Machines and automation are good at repetitive functions, steady-state functions and transition management.

Continuous production could reduce persistent quality problems and help eliminate drug shortages.

A cyber attack on a safety controller at an oil and gas installation in the Middle East proves that concerns about the possibility of attacks on industrial systems are escalating...

Companies often don’t understand where and how solutions can be applied to optimal effect, nor how to best integrate legacy technology investments.

How a specialty-polymers company took a “don’t panic” approach and improved safety, cost, uptime and quality.

Clearly, we've already started to see effective use of emerging technologies such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) enabled remote condition monitoring and Big Data analytics...

Basic migration approaches and the costs of change associated with them.

Determining when to migrate to a new system and developing a process for the upgrade projects.

ARC Advisory Group Insight provides general guidelines.

ARC reviews takeaways on information-driven asset performance.