Actionable Benefits
- 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.
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.
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?
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.
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