Actionable Benefits
- Identify the investment plans for a wide range of technologies, including private wireless networks, robotics, machine vision tools, and digital twins.
- Understand the extent that discrete manufacturers plan to support their operations with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI agents.
- 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 discrete manufacturers currently face.
- Key differences in perceptions regarding whether AI can be utilized to support individual use cases.
- Respondents’ concerns regarding their use of AI.
- Use cases that AI agents can support.
Critical Questions Answered
- What is top of mind for discrete manufacturers with regard to their operating environment?
- What use cases do discrete manufacturers believe AI is best suited to support?
- Do respondents believe they have what it takes to take full advantage of AI?
- What holds discrete manufacturers back from deploying digital technologies at scale?
Who Should Read This?
- Vendors looking to understand the needs, investment plans, and selection criteria of process manufacturers with regard to digital transformation.
- System integrators looking to understand issues concerning the identification and deployment of AI by manufacturers.
- Manufacturing firms wanting to understand how their digitalization plans compare with others and how respondents’ perceptions of emerging technologies compare with theirs.