Cosman, E. C.
ARC Advisory Group,
Eric C. Cosman has over 35 years of experience in developing, delivering, managing and supporting operations information technology solutions in the process industries. During his career, his assignments and responsibilities have included process automation systems development, communications network design, functional and technical architecture design, and technology lifecycle management. He recently retired as an operations IT consulting engineer with Dow Chemical Co.
The term “industrial transformation” is sometimes used to describe digital transformation in plants, factories, mills and other industrial environments.
Cybersecurity standards and related practices contain valuable information for both asset owners and solution suppliers.
Detecting, reporting and responding to abnormal situations or events are important functional elements of a complete process automation strategy.
Industry standards mandate safety lifecycle management (SLM). Most industrial organizations are aware of and comply with those standards.
The need for more automated and efficient operations has led end users to accumulate large and increasingly complex collections of operations-related information technology (IT) solutions.
Process safety and cyber security are distinctly different disciplines, but there is now a growing realization within the downstream automation sector that they are related.