Understand the key challenges that manufacturers are currently experiencing in 2024 and where improving productivity fits in.
Identify the investment timelines for a wide range of technologies, including private wireless networks, robotics, machine vision tools, and digital twins.
Appreciate the issues that currently prevent manufacturers from scaling digital technologies across their facilities that can support initiatives to improve productivity.
Critical Questions Answered
What’s top of mind for manufacturers with regard to technology investments to improve productivity levels?
What are respondents’ perceptions of the potential benefits that Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and the industrial metaverse can support?
What holds back manufacturers from deploying digital technologies at scale that can improve productivity levels?
Research Highlights
Insights into the key external, operational, and technical challenges that manufacturers currently face.
Time frame for the adoption of individual digital technologies.
Respondents’ concerns with regard to cybersecurity.
Use cases that Gen AI can support.
Who Should Read This?
Vendors looking to understand the needs, investment plans, and selection criteria of manufacturers with regard to digital transformation and improving productivity levels.
System integrators looking to understand issues concerning the identification and deployment of technologies.
Manufacturing firms to understand how their digitalization plans compare with others and how respondents’ perceptions of emerging technologies compare with theirs.
Table of Contents
Executive Summary and Key Findings
Technology Investments for Improving Productivity
Key Challenges That Productivity Programs Need to Support
Technology Deployments That Improve Productivity
Improving Productivity with Digital Transformation
Transforming Operations to Improve Productivity
Adoption Barriers to Improving Productivity
What Vendors Need to Appreciate to Help Improve Customers’ Productivity