Industry forum!

Transforming Industry through New Processes and Technologies

This is the theme for ARC’s Sixteenth Annual World Industry Forum (February 6-9, 2012) in Orlando (FL US) just one month away (see our report on Last Years Forum!)

This annual forum, an industry-leading networking and learning event, attracts executive attendees from both the automation supplier and end user communities.  Forum programs cover a wide range of timely manufacturing and industrial automation and IT-related issues, including:

• Analytics for Industry
• Asset Information and Lifecycle Management
• Asset Performance Management
• Cloud Computing
• Collaboration and Social Media Solutions
• Innovations in Virtual Production
• Operational Excellence for Power Generation
• Security Solutions for Plants and Infrastructure
• Supply Chain Integrity and Brand Protection
• Sustainable Operational Excellence Solutions
• Enterprise Mobility

The automation technologies represented and discussed include sensors, PLCs, and DCS control systems.  Software technologies include HMI/SCADA, historian, simulation, MES, ERP, and asset management.  The ARC forum addresses both process and discrete marketplaces.
Forum participants typically include senior industry executives plus directors and managers from across the global engineering, IT, operations, maintenance, and supply chain/logistics communities; plus representatives from government, academia, and the media.