Ryan Martin
Senior Research Director
Research Focus
Ryan Martin is a Senior Research Director at ABI Research covering new and emerging transformative technologies, including Industry 4.0, digital transformation, and the Internet of Things (IoT). He leads the firm's manufacturing, industrial, and enterprise IoT research efforts.
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Topics Covered
Industrial & Manufacturing Markets
Extended Reality (XR) Technologies
Insights
Data Analytics Insights from ABI Research’s 2024 Survey of Manufacturers
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7506
Hannover Messe 2024 Key Themes & What to Expect
Insight | 2Q 2024 | IN-7301
QSR 4.0: Improving Operations in the Fast-Food Industry Using Simulation Software
Insight | 4Q 2023 | IN-7151
What the US$1.8 Billion Stratasys and Desktop Metal Merger Means for Customers, Partners, and the Competition
Insight | 3Q 2023 | IN-7009
Modern Industrial Data Architecture Strategies & Best Practices for Life Sciences 4.0
Insight | 3Q 2023 | IN-6995
Dassault Systèmes’ 2023 Analyst Days: The Strategy Is to Focus on Experiences, Outcomes, and Health
Insight | 2Q 2023 | IN-6976
Automate 2023 Returns as Catalyst for Change from Fixed to Flexible Automation
Insight | 2Q 2023 | IN-6964
PTC LiveWorx 2023 Key Takeaway: PTC Is Going All in on Closed-Loop Product Lifecycle Innovation
Insight | 2Q 2023 | IN-6961
Hannover Messe 2023 Key Themes, What to Expect, and How to Optimize Your Time
Insight | 1Q 2023 | IN-6885
Siemens Xcelerator Digital Business Platform 2023 Strategy Update: Openness and Everything-as-a-Service
Insight | 1Q 2023 | IN-6871
The Automotive Factory of the Future: Mercedes, Microsoft Cloud, and the MO360 Production Platform
Insight | 4Q 2022 | IN-6724
Hits and Misses at the 33rd International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS)
Insight | 3Q 2022 | IN-6680
Keep or Kill: A Strategic Framework for Digital Transformation Project Prioritization and Development
Insight | 3Q 2022 | IN-6659
The International Manufacturing Technology Show Returns! What to Expect?
Insight | 3Q 2022 | IN-6656
Siemens Launches Xcelerator Open Digital Business Platform and Marketplace, Partner Opportunities Abound
Insight | 3Q 2022 | IN-6611
Hannover Messe 2022: Summary and Key Takeaways
Insight | 2Q 2022 | IN-6584
Siemens’ Media and Analyst Conference Highlights and Key Takeaways: Digital Twin, SaaS, and Sustainability
Insight | 2Q 2022 | IN-6525
Zebra Advances Machine Vision Posture with Matrox Imaging Acquisition
Insight | 1Q 2022 | IN-6495
Instrumental Closes $50 Million Series C to Accelerate Manufacturing Optimization Innovation
Insight | 1Q 2022 | IN-6470
2022 Digital Factory Update
Insight | 1Q 2022 | IN-6416
Industrial Digital Transformation Is Here, It Just Isn’t Evenly Distributed
Insight | 4Q 2021 | IN-6379
Stratasys Introduces Open Software Platform for Production Additive Manufacturing
Insight | 4Q 2021 | IN-6331
The Impact of PTC’s Acquisitions and Partner Strategy on Product Development
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6258
Desktop Metal Acquires Largest Additive Manufacturing Rival ExOne in $575M MBJ Power Play
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6260
Industrial Software: Why SaaS
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6257
Manufacturing Platforms Underpinning Digital Twin Introductions
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6256
SAP and Siemens Release Joint Roadmap for Digital Thread Across the Product Lifecycle
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6230
PTC’s Annual LiveWorx Keynote
Insight | 3Q 2021 | IN-6212
Stratasys Jockeys for Leadership Position in AM 2.0 Polymers Market with The Launch of Three New Systems
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6167
Bright Machines SPAC Merger Bolsters Shift to Software Defined Manufacturing
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6166
The Four Types of Digital Twins
Insight | 2Q 2021 | IN-6163
A New Frontier for 5G, Edge Computing, Machine Vision, and AI: Autonomous Ships
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6077
Key Selection Criteria for Metal Binder Jetting Additive Manufacturing
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6075
Desktop Metal Nabs EnvisionTEC for $300 Million to Take on Carbon, Stratasys, 3D Systems, HP, and More
Insight | 1Q 2021 | IN-6057
PTC and Rockwell Expand and Extend Strategic Alliance to Create Comprehensive Digital Thread
Insight | 4Q 2020 | IN-5989
Fujitsu Warms to the Cloud with FANUC and NTT Joint Venture and New DX Offerings
Insight | 4Q 2020 | IN-5976
The Slow Encroach of Amazon and Microsoft on IIoT Platforms
Insight | 3Q 2020 | IN-5919
Siemens and SAP Partner to Co-Develop and Co-Deliver Integrated Solutions for Digital Industries
Insight | 3Q 2020 | IN-5879
PTC, Rockwell, and Microsoft Create Factory Insights as a Service Joint Offering
Insight | 2Q 2020 | IN-5850
Accenture’s Industry X.0 Acquisition Spree Continues with PLM Systems, Callisto Integration, and Silveo
Insight | 2Q 2020 | IN-5830
The Impact of COVID-19 on Manufacturing Technology Adoption
Insight | 2Q 2020 | IN-5813
Manufacturing Optimization Systems for the Postmodern COVID-19 Era
Insight | 2Q 2020 | IN-5789
AT&T’s Advance on Manufacturing: Starts with IT, Ends with OT
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5742
The Tough Task for Connected Tools
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5761
Verizon and AWS Team up on Industrial 5G
Insight | 1Q 2020 | IN-5710
Research
Digital Factory Data
Market Data | 4Q 2024 | MD-DFD-24
Digital Factory Market Data Overview: 4Q 2024
Presentation | 4Q 2024 | PT-3639
Industrial and Manufacturing Survey 1H 2024: Industrial Metaverse
Presentation | 4Q 2024 | PT-3341
Industrial and Manufacturing Technologies Update: 1H 2024
Presentation | 3Q 2024 | PT-2671
Industrial Metaverse: Use Cases, Deployments and Case Studies
Presentation | 1Q 2024 | PT-2694
Industrial & Manufacturing Technologies: Semiannual Update 2H 2023
Presentation | 3Q 2023 | PT-2668
Digital Factory Data
Market Data | 4Q 2022 | MD-IICT-108
Industrial and Manufacturing Semiannual Update: 2H 2022
Presentation | 4Q 2022 | PT-2590
4 Key Industries Embracing Industry 4.0
Whitepaper | 4Q 2022 | WP-1009
Industrial and Manufacturing Semiannual Update: 1H 2022
Presentation | 3Q 2022 | PT-2547
Digital Factory Data
Market Data | 1Q 2022 | MD-IICT-107
Manufacturing Market Data
Market Data | 4Q 2021 | MD-MMD-101
Industrial and Manufacturing Semiannual Update
Presentation | 4Q 2021 | PT-2441
2022 Technology Summit: Sustainability and The Cost of Inaction for Manufacturers
Presentation | 4Q 2021 | PT-2552
Smart Manufacturing Platforms Competitive Ranking
Competitive Ranking | 3Q 2021 | CA-1308
Industrial Digital Twins: What’s New and What’s Next
Report | 2Q 2021 | AN-5478
Transformational Technology Summit: 5G and the Future of Industrial
Presentation | 1Q 2021 | PT-2509
Industrial and Manufacturing Semiannual Update
Presentation | 1Q 2021 | PT-2374
Manufacturing and Supply Chain Summit: Industry 4.0 and Digital Supply Chain
Presentation | 4Q 2020 | PT-2426
Digital Factory Data
Market Data | 3Q 2020 | MD-IICT-106
Industrial and Manufacturing Semiannual Update
Presentation | 2Q 2020 | PT-2373
Next Generation Metrology and Inspection for Industrial Applications
Report | 2Q 2020 | AN-5111
Ryan Martin In The News
Nokia adds multi-modal AI sensor fusion to industrial 5G portfolio
RCR Wireless News (2025-02-26)
It also supplied a quote from Ryan Martin, research director at ABI Research, which said: “Sensor fusion and AI are key capabilities for core industrial automation applications [like] robotics, autonomous work cells, and collaborative scenarios involving humans and machines. Nokia, with its private...
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STRATASYS EXPANDS ITS SOFTWARE PORTFOLIO WITH TWO NEW OFFERINGS
3D Printing Industry (2024-03-10)
“Many manufacturers have struggled with integrating additive manufacturing into their manufacturing ecosystem,” said Ryan Martin, Director, Research, ABI Research. “For greater adoption, they need to add enhanced software solutions that will provide them with the necessary quality controls,...
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Industrial Metaverse Spend to Reach US$6.3 Billion by 2030 As Immersive Engineering Use Cases Take Hold
Control Engineering (2024-02-12)
“Top IMV use cases for 2024 will be in training, collaboration, and production planning, with a strong emphasis on solutions that drive positive business outcomes in a short timeframe,” explains Ryan Martin, Senior Research Director, Industrial & Manufacturing at ABI Research. “Large deployments...
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Industrial metaverse spend to reach US$6.3 billion by 2030: report
Process Technology (2024-02-12)
“Top IMV use cases for 2024 will be in training, collaboration and production planning, with a strong emphasis on solutions that drive positive business outcomes in a short timeframe,” said Ryan Martin, Senior Research Director, Industrial & Manufacturing at ABI Research. “Large deployments that are...
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Manufacturing lags in digital maturity
Future CIO (2023-02-8)
Digital transformation innovation and adoption significantly accelerated in 2022, but there is still a long way to go. According to ABI Research’s Digital Transformation Index, on a scale of 0 to 5, the manufacturing sector scored an average of 2.4 for digital maturity Automotive took the lead with...
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Auto Industry Leads In Digital- Transformation Investments
Forbes (2022-11-30)
The auto industry is leading major sectors of manufacturing that are embracing digital transformation for their own reasons and at different paces. The global automotive sector has become the biggest spender on digital transformation, ABI Research’s latest study found, forecasting that the industry...
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How To Do Digital Transformation The Right Way
Strategic CIO (2022-11-21)
“There’s a shift in the way the market is thinking about [digital] solutions, and it really is a solutions-first approach,” Ryan Martin, industrial and manufacturing markets research director at ABI Research, told StrategicCIO360. “You figure out the problem and the solution first, and then the...
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PTC Doubles Down on Manufacturing with ServiceNow Acquisition
Design News (2022-11-17)
ServiceNow brings aftermarket and field data into the design and manufacturing loop. “PTC’s acquisition of ServiceMax underscores the growing interest in full-cycle lifecycle analytics solutions that close the loop on optimizations across domains, said Ryan Martin, research director for industrial...
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Auto sector leads industrial digital transformation
Future IoT (2022-11-8)
The automotive sector is the biggest spender on digital transformation. In its whitepaper, 4 Key Industries Embracing Industry 4.0, ABI Research forecasts that this sector’s spending on Industry 4.0 technologies will approach US$100 billion in 2022 and grow to over US$238 billion in 2030. The main...
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Automotive Sector Leads Industrial Digital Transformation Charge
Communications Today (2022-11-2)
The automotive sector is the biggest spender on digital transformation. In its latest whitepaper, 4 Key Industries Embracing Industry 4.0, global technology intelligence firm ABI Research forecasts that this sector’s spend on Industry 4.0 technologies will approach US$100 billion in 2022 and grow to...
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Automotive Sector Leads Industrial Digital Transformation Charge With US$238 Billion Investment, Followed By Electronics, Oil & Gas, And FMCG
EMS Now (2022-11-2)
ABI Research’s new whitepaper explores the four key markets being transformed by Industry 4.0 The automotive sector is the biggest spender on digital transformation. In its latest whitepaper, 4 Key Industries Embracing Industry 4.0, global technology intelligence firm ABI Research forecasts that...
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Digital transformation led by auto sector, says ABI Research
Canadian Auto Dealer (2022-11-1)
The automotive sector is the biggest spender on digital transformation of its products and production, says the latest whitepaper, 4 Key Industries Embracing Industry 4.0, produced by global technology intelligence firm ABI Research. The paper forecasts that “this sector’s spend on Industry 4.0...
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AI’s growing role in industrial manufacturing
Electronic Products Magazine (2022-05-25)
There is great interest in AI and machine learning (ML), but there is a lot of fragmentation in the industrial manufacturing market, said Ryan Martin, industrial and manufacturing research director at ABI Research. “It is difficult to speak broadly about those technologies given the diversity of...
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Man vs. Machine
Assembly Magazine (2022-03-23)
“People are still much better at high-level thinking and cross-functional coordination,” says Ryan Martin, industrial and manufacturing research director at ABI Research. “Machines are better at handling tasks that require fast cycle times and continuous flow processing.”
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Assembly Magazine: The Big Data Dilemma
Assembly Magazine (2021-08-24)
“Future factories are expected to have flexible and adaptable manufacturing lines that operate with greater autonomy, integrated closed-loop quality control, and connected workers to improve effective response to changes in supply and demand as they occur,” says Ryan Martin, research director at ABI...
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Enterprise IoT Insights: The State of Things in Smart Manufacturing
Enterprise IoT Insights (2021-05-10)
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RT Insights: Post-Covid Industrial IoT Spending Set to Quadruple
RT Insights (2021-03-25)
“The reality is that most manufacturers did not have these capabilities going into the pandemic,” says Ryan Martin, research director at ABI Research. “Yet today technologies like cloud, simulation, and SaaS are viewed as table stakes.”
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Trade Arabia: Industrial firms to spend $19bn on IIoT, says report
Trade Arabia (2021-03-17)
According to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research, manufacturers need to ensure the success of current and future programmes amid continued challenges including restricted travel and distributed teams trying to collaborate remotely in real-time.
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Smart Industry: Report: Industrial firms will spend $19 billion on IIoT data analytics by 2026
Smart Industry (2021-03-16)
Per findings from ABI Research’s Industrial and Manufacturing Semiannual Update report, select digital-transformation initiatives have gained considerable momentum in terms of their adoption and potential. These include cloud for collaboration and synchronization across teams and departments,...
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Control Design: Manufacturers, industrial firms to spend $19 billion on IIoT data analytics by 2026
Control Design (2021-03-16)
Market advisory firm ABI Research says that because manufacturers need to ensure the success of programs while dealing with restricted travel and distributed teams that select digital transformation initiatives have gained momentum in terms of their adoption and potential. These include cloud for...
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The Enterprisers Project: How to explain edge computing in plain English
The Enterprisers Project (2020-11-30)
It’s “everything not in the cloud,” says Ryan Martin, principal analyst with ABI Research, “If we think about a hub-and-spoke model, the cloud is the hub and everything on the outside of the spokes is the edge.” This decentralized approach enables organizations to move processes like analytics and...
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CNBC: How 3-D printing is helping the US fight medical equipment shortages and the coronavirus pandemic
CNBC (2020-04-17)
“Additive manufacturing — 3-D printing — is well suited for rapid prototyping,” said Ryan Martin, principal analyst at ABI Research. “COVID-19 pulls forward that capability from a nice-to-have to a need-to-have
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Industry Week: Tale of COVID-19: Crisis Inspiring Innovations
Industry Week (2020-04-1)
While it's difficult to predict what this current situation will mean long term, it will undoubtedly force most manufacturers to seriously rethink their operations. According to ABI Research, this includes radically embracing technological investments. In its new white paper, Taking Stock of...
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Telecoms Tech: Digital factory revenue will surpass $1 trillion by 2030 – driven by many emerging technologies
Telecoms Tech (2020-01-16)
Technology investments in the industrial and manufacturing sector are set to grow significantly, going from $59 billion in 2019 to $375 billion in 2030. Including hardware revenues, that figure will climb to over $1 trillion, according to the latest worldwide market study by ABI Research....
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Enterprise IoT Insights: ‘IT/OT convergence is a problem statement’ – ‘co-creation’ in industrial IoT (12-inch remix)
Enterprise IoT Insights (2019-12-18)
Martin at ABI says the joining of IT and OT in IoT should be redefined. “This idea of IT/OT convergence is a problem statement. The challenge is around integration and collaboration, and not convergence. Because that’s the goal. That’s what the market is trying to achieve, ultimately.”
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The Economist: Leading transformation in manufacturing: Case studies in technology-driven innovation
The Economist (2019-11-5)
One roadblock is the convergence of OT, which controls the machines on the factory floor, with IT, which collects and analyses the data needed for decision-making. Ryan Martin, principal analyst at ABI Research, explains how, until recently, OT and IT co-existed as distinct areas of responsibility....
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How to Embrace Best Practices in Additive Manufacturing
ASME Essentials: How to Embrace Best Practices in Additive Manufacturing (2019-10-8)
If your AM processes are not working, there may be questions you need to ask. “What is the intended application or use case? Is it functional prototypes? Is it maintenance and repair? Is this for production parts? Not every machine can produce the same effect in each of those worlds,” says Ryan...
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Smart Industry: Siemens & Dassault Systèmes top ABI's software assessment
Smart Industry (2019-09-5)
Ranked as the top manufacturing simulation software vendor, Siemens scored highest in implementation and topped four of the ten scoring criteria, states global tech market advisory firm, according to ABI Research's recent Manufacturing Simulation Software Competitive Assessment. Dassault Systèmes...
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ASMAG: Which global regions are seeing strong IIoT adoption?
ASMAG (2019-07-25)
Needless to say, Europe and North America are early adopters of IIoT which has become more mature in those regions. “In Europe, Germany is leading in the Industry 4.0 movement. But by size of market as a whole, the U.S. leads,” said Ryan Martin, Principal Analyst at ABI Research.
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The Enterprisers Project: How to explain edge computing in plain English
The Enterprisers Project (2019-07-22)
It’s “everything not in the cloud,” says Ryan Martin, principal analyst with ABI Research, “If we think about a hub-and-spoke model, the cloud is the hub and everything on the outside of the spokes is the edge.” This decentralized approach enables organizations to move processes like analytics and...
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Assembly Magazine: Additive Manufacturing: The Quest for Automation
Assembly Magazine (2019-07-9)
“There are many variables involved, depending upon the application,” says Ryan Martin, principal analyst for smart manufacturing at ABI Research. “For instance, a low-volume powder bed-based aerospace part may not require a lot of post-processing other than removing the supports. A high-volume...
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Torque:Warehouse study predicts more investment in tech like smart glasses & wearable scanners
Torque (2019-06-19)
Ryan Martin, Principal Analyst at tech market advisory firm, ABI Research, said: “The Zebra 2024 Warehousing Vision Study validates the explosive growth in warehousing automation technology. Warehousing and logistics are driven by the promise of just-in-time service delivery and the desire for...
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Modern Materials Handline:ABI Research: Additive manufacturing leaps from prototype to production
Modern Materials Handling (2019-02-27)
According to a new report published by ABI Research, a market-foresight advisory firm, these systems will produce more than $360 billion worth of parts and end products each year and nearly $2 trillion in sum by the end of the next decade. “Additive manufacturing is moving from the prototype to the...
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