Identify what manufacturers look for from a new solution or vendor.
Understand the context to their vendor selection criteria with regard to the key challenges that manufacturers are currently experiencing in 2024.
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.
Critical Questions Answered
What’s top of mind for manufacturers with regard to what they are looking for from vendors?
What are respondents’ perceptions of the potential benefits that Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) can deliver?
What holds back manufacturers from deploying digital technologies at scale that can improve their operations?
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 selecting a new vendor.
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.
System integrators looking to understand issues concerning the identification and deployment of technologies.
Manufacturing firms looking to understand how their digitalization plans compare with others and how respondents’ perceptions of emerging technologies compare with theirs.
Table of Contents
Key Findings
What Are Manufacturers Looking for from Vendors?
Key Challenges: Internal and External
Adoption Barriers
Key Challenges: Operational and Business Challenges
Transforming Operations: Collecting and Utilizing Data