The fifth edition of C3 AI's annual conference, C3 Transform, was held in Boca Raton, Florida earlier this March. Over 500 attendees gathered at the city's namesake hotel, representing a variety of companies, ranging from long-time C3 flag bearers Shell, Baker Hughes, and Koch Industries to relatively new customers, such as General Mills, Dow Chemicals, and Johnson Controls. The attendees included C3 customers among local, state, and federal agencies, prospects in the company's sales pipeline, industry partners, and analyst firms ..read more

Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) software is no longer a nice to have for manufacturers to achieve long-term success in a dynamic and competitive global landscape. The dramatic increase in risk and demands for more sustainable operations has only raised the bar for solution providers to deliver more robust, integrated, and connected solutions to manage risk, ensure compliance, and retain talent proactively. The sixty-four percent of industrial organizations that have already adopted or are piloting enterprise EHS Management and Sustainability software is a strong indicator of the value t ..read more

An Updated Definition of the Technology Category, IX Reference Architecture, and the AIA Solution Selection Matrix In my seven years at LNS Research, I've noticed that the research and advisory business has become increasingly dynamic and fast-moving. Most of the duties of an industry analyst, such as conducting primary research, defining technology categories, and evaluating vendor landscapes, have become more nuanced, requiring frequent updates to keep up with this increasing pace of change ..read more

Asset Performance Management (APM) emerged in the early 2000s to deliver three core business outcomes for asset-intensive companies: reduce maintenance costs, improve production availability, and increase asset reliability. APM was, is, and will always anchor on understanding risk, cost, and performance. There are a number of important connected objectives/outcomes, such as reduced downtime and improved safety, but these essential pillars of the APM vision remain at the core of what solutions providers in the APM space are developing software to deliver today ..read more

Transformation is challenging for industrial organizations. Manufacturers face genuine barriers to deploying new digital technologies specifically and realizing benefits from Industrial Transformation (IX). Software vendors face equally daunting obstacles in trying to help manufacturers achieve IX success. Software vendors face a myriad of hurdles in marketing, selling, and deploying software. IX is hard enough, but software marketing and procurement realities are getting in the way by creating additional, largely artificial barriers. Let's look at how software categorization and manufacturin ..read more

The workforce shortage has been the burning platform for many manufacturing CEOs. The latest data shows that if every unemployed worker accepted an open role, three million jobs would still remain unfilled. Manufacturing quit rates prove the competition for talent will be a critical factor in sustaining operations.   ..read more

In a previous blog post, we introduced Advanced Industrial Analytics (AIA) as a technology category and defined what it takes to provide competing software in this space. As part of that definition, we provided five must-have criteria for Advanced Industrial Analytics software ..read more

In a previous blog post, we introduced Advanced Industrial Analytics (AIA) as a technology category and defined what it takes to provide a competing solution in this space. As part of that definition, we provided five must-have criteria for an Advanced Industrial Analytics solution ..read more

Veeva Systems recently hosted an in-person summit for the second time since the pandemic. As Veeva Systems usually does, this event was a joint R&D and Quality Summit in Boston on September 13 and 14. LNS Research was privileged to be able to attend this conference. The conference was well attended, with over 2,500 industry executives filling the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center ..read more

Connected Frontline Workforce (CFW) Applications continue to animate the manufacturing workforce worldwide. Our global 2023 State of Industrial Transformation (IX) technology survey shows that more than three-quarters of companies are executing, piloting, or planning on executing a CFW initiative in the next 12 months. CFW Applications have become a core transformation program component for the majority of IX Leaders. They are nearly three times more likely to be currently engaged in CFW initiatives when compared to Followers ..read more