State of Smart Manufacturing Report

WHAT IS SMART MANUFACTURING?

Smart Manufacturing is the intelligent, real-time orchestration and optimization of business, physical, and digital processes within factories and across the entire value chain. Resources and processes are automated, integrated, monitored, and continuously evaluated based on all available information as close to real time as possible.

The 8th annual edition of the State of Smart Manufacturing report surveys the broadest audience yet, probing deeply into global manufacturing. This report has expanded in scope from previous years, with quadruple the number of respondents, across 13 of the top manufacturing countries; 25% of whom work for firms with over $1B in revenue. Participants, who hold positions from management up to the C-suite, responded to questions that reveal the current state of technology in manufacturing, the biggest challenges, and the future of the industry.

This report from Rockwell Automation, in association with Sapio Research, includes a technology adoption plan alongside the research findings to help you turn insights into action.