Integrating Leak Detection and Custody Transfer for Pipeline Monitoring Can...
ARC’s recently published Leak Detection Systems study confirmed that the importance of pipeline integrity is growing in the oil and gas industry as the number of incidents involving leaks, ruptures and...
View ArticleHouston Event by The Open Group and ExxonMobil Set for June 27
Below is an announcement ARC received from The Open Group concerning the Industry Day Event at ExxonMobil’s Houston Campus on June 27, 2016 (emphasis is mine). Please note that it is a live meeting...
View ArticleImproving Regulations in Developing Economies Will Drive Emission Monitoring...
Manufacturers are increasingly faced with environmental regulations aimed at monitoring and managing emissions. Environmental regulatory authorities around the world require manufacturing industries to...
View ArticleHow (and by Whom) are Automation Standards Created and Used?
It is generally accepted that standards are an important element of the practice of automation. Developed and issued by associations of professionals in various fields of experience, standards provide...
View ArticleProduct Innovations in Hydrostatic Level Devices Market Continue to Benefit...
Pressure based hydrostatic level devices have been widely used in numerous liquid level measuring applications. They still retain the largest market share, in terms of both volumes and revenues, in...
View ArticleReport from ExxonMobil Industry Day
On Monday June 27 ExxonMobil (XOM) and the Open Group conducted an “Industry Day” meeting for end users of process automation systems at the ExxonMobil RD&E Campus near Houston. ExxonMobil...
View ArticleSoftware’s Where It’s At
Honeywell recently announced that Dave Cote is retiring after 14 years at the helm and will be succeeded by Darius Adamczyk. In the announcement Mr. Cote states, “Scanning & Mobility and Honeywell...
View ArticleExperion Solution Suites Combine HPS and UOP Knowledge to Reduce Cost and Risk
The convergence of production processes and plants with the automation solutions that control them is one of the natural outgrowths of new modular approaches to plant engineering combined with...
View ArticleWhen is the best time to select your next operational technologies?
Many times, the operational technology (OT) selection process happens at or near a crisis situation. The crisis may be as the result of a supplier removing a product from the market, forcing the end...
View ArticleBatch Management Software: Features Required
The ARC Advisory Group Batch Management Software research identifies the importance of the value gained from using the technology from having better batch-to-batch consistency, better adherence to...
View ArticleIs IIoT the Death of the Monolithic DCS?
Automation suppliers are already driving IIoT functionality into their process automation offerings. The DCS, however, exists primarily in the realm of real-time controls for critical process...
View ArticleJuly 26 Webinar on ExxonMobil-Lockheed Martin-Open Group Program
A note to those who are following the ExxonMobil-Lockheed Martin automation development program; The Open Group is sponsoring a webinar on this program tomorrow, Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:00 am Eastern...
View ArticleRAPID: The $16 Billion Downstream Project in Southeast Asia
You could not have missed the doom and gloom in the oil & gas industry over the last two years as oil prices descended from their 2011-13 $100-and-above highs. The most visible signs: cancelled or...
View ArticleEast Coast ExxonMobil Industry Day – August 23
ExxonMobil and the Open Group are sponsoring a second “Industry Day” event, this time on the East Coast, in Paulsboro, New Jersey (near Philadelphia airport). The first Industry Day took place last...
View ArticleCapital Expenditures: Is it already the end of the downturn?
From ARC Director of Research Florian Gueldner, who recently completed our annual report on capital expenditures, which can be accessed by ARC clients. ARC has monitored global capital expenditures for...
View ArticleARC’s 14th India Forum Discusses the Innovation Imperative
The winds of change are sweeping across the industrial landscape, uprooting old ways of doing business and creating a connected and collaborated world. Market volatility and increased competition make...
View ArticleKuwait Oil Company Leverages Wireless to Improve Production, Owner-Operators...
ARC has been a strong proponent for deploying wireless technologies to reduce costs, improve operational scalability, and help address a growing number of applications for which a wired solution is not...
View ArticleThe End of the Automation Supplier Annuity?
If process plants adopt the open process automation systems envisioned by ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco, what will happen to the business of process automation? In most process plants today the incumbent...
View ArticleBecause It’s Cool – Bedrock Automation Tesla Coil Video
I’m posting it because it’s cool, but it’s also pretty impressive and because quite a few automation end users in industrial plants are rightfully concerned about the potential impact of lightning...
View ArticleHardware in an Open Systems World
During the 20th Annual ARC Industry Forum in Orlando, Florida, representatives from ExxonMobil put forth a vision of a more open process control architecture. ExxonMobil depicted this vision as a...
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