Before the current COVID-19 pandemic struck, ARC Advisory Group launched an ongoing survey in conjunction with CONTROL magazine to help ascertain the current status of autonomous operations among ...

Digitalization, Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality are some examples of rapidly developing areas of technology that will have a big impact on how ...

Technology progression within advanced process control (APC) continues to evolve; however, it is the relationship among core APC developments, enabling technologies, and management practices that is ...

If you think your process automation system has run its course, you’re not alone. It was recently forecast that $65 billion worth of process automation systems are nearing the end of their useful life ...

Plant operations in the process industries have evolved over time toward Autonomous Operations by using generally well-integrated and well-applied digital automation technologies, such as distributed ...

The process of operational goal-setting is a critical step when it comes to business planning. It's the step that transforms strategic plans into actionable items. I previously wrote about operational ...

Logistics units are the square peg to the Army’s round hole, repeatedly hammered into an operations process developed for maneuver and fires units. Logistics units have several organizational ...

Business and IT leaders can't improve what they don't understand. That's why many organizations look to process mining. It helps uncover a range of problems across an organization -- from bottlenecks ...

Both operational guidance and operational planning help businesses achieve operational success. Operational guidance establishes codes of conduct and ethics for the organization. Operational planning, ...

As businesses grow and evolve, so do their business processes. Depending on the company's size, there are dozens, if not hundreds, of business processes that stakeholders inside and outside an ...