A Framework to Speed Manufacturing’s Digital Business Transformation

whitePaper | May 20, 2022

In today’s Industry 4.0-driven market, companies strive to meet customers’ needs and offer the most competitive and valuable solutions while being efficient and reducing costs. To face this challenge, manufacturers need to leverage the advantages of digital transformation.

whitePaper | March 23, 2023

The fourth industrial revolution is transforming the manufacturing industry as we speak. Industry 4.0 is digitally driven, and like all other revolutions, the transformation did not happen overnight. Since the first personal computer on a factory floor in 1970s, computer-aided design has developed and matured exponentially. Strategically eective evolutionary steps has resulted in productivity and eciency gains in manufacturing. We live in the Industry 4.0 era, characterized by the digitization of manufacturing processes. Inevitably, today, information plays a significant role for an enterprise transformation. Data on how the product’s design and manufacturing information is authored, exchanged, and processed is critical to competitiveness. Information ‘silos’ for various life cycle processes are gradually connected to form a digital thread of information, envisioned to integrate and drive modern product design, manufacturing, and product support service processes.

whitePaper | January 11, 2022

While the technological maturity of AM has been demonstrated in specific industries, individual firms still struggle with its adoption and implementation at industrial scale. Companies underestimate the extent to which the adoption of AM is first and foremost a learning process that involves the entire value chain and requires specific AM expertise that needs to be acquired. Throughout this learning process, a wide range of challenges may hinder the progress and success of implementation.

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

Manufacturers are performing in a highly volatile environment Today’s manufacturers face a number of urgent challenges that they need to overcome in order to keep their business on track and gain competitive advantage. These challenges include customer demands for faster deliveries, greater product innovation and more Product as a Service offerings (servitization). Additionally, customers, investors and regulators are pressuring manufacturers to reduce their carbon footprint and improve transparency along their supply chains.

whitePaper | March 14, 2022

It is unusual to see positive economic indicators paired with historic labor and supply chain challenges. But this is the trajectory for US manufacturing in 2022 emerging from the pandemic. The recovery gained momentum in 2021 on the heels of vaccine rollout and rising demand. As industrial production and capacity utilization surpassed pre-pandemic levels midyear, strong increases in new orders for all major subsectors signal growth continuing in 2022.

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

Industry 4.0—also referred to as smart manufacturing, connected manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and other monikers—has revolutionized the way companies manufacture, enhance, and distribute products through the use of new technologies. However, not all sectors and markets are evolving at the same pace. To help both manufacturing providers and industry leaders understand the landscape, ABI Research’s Industrial & Manufacturing Markets Research provides insights, perspectives, and data related to digital maturity within individual markets and across the industry landscape. Our research illuminates drivers and inhibitors that are shaping adoption of digital technologies across market maturity, practitioners’ investment priorities, and best practices for deploying the technologies. We keep abreast of key trends, including increasing demand for electric vehicles and semiconductor chips, the adoption of machine learning and automation, and a reliance on digital twins.