Actionable Benefits
- Understand the key challenges that discrete manufacturers are currently experiencing in 2024.
- Identify 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 discrete manufacturers from scaling digital technologies across their facilities.
Research Highlights
- Insights into the key external, operational, and technical challenges that discrete 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.
Critical Questions Answered
- What’s top of mind for discrete manufacturers with regard to their operating environment?
- What are respondents’ perceptions of the potential benefits that private wireless networks, cloud solutions, data analytics, Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), and the industrial metaverse can support?
- What holds back discrete manufacturers from deploying digital technologies at scale?
Who Should Read This?
- Vendors looking to understand the needs, investment plans, and selection criteria of discrete 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.
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