Mar-23
IDC Market Glance: Smart Manufacturing, 1Q23
IDC Market Glance: Smart Manufacturing, 1Q23
Mar-23 DOC # EUR149928222 Presentation
This IDC Market Presentation provides a glance at the current makeup of the smart manufacturing market landscape for manufacturing industries.
Jan-23
NVIDIA's Launch of Omniverse Cloud Services: Opportunities for Industrial Metaverse Concept Development
NVIDIA's Launch of Omniverse Cloud Services: Opportunities for Industrial Metaverse Concept Development
Jan-23 DOC # EUR250011423 Insight
This IDC Market Note covers NVIDIA's recent plans to launch Omniverse Cloud services for building and operating industrial metaverse applications. NVIDIA will provide developers and enterprise teams with a comprehensive suite of cloud services to design, publish, operate, and experience metaverse applications from anywhere.
"When dealing with industrial metaverse projects, most companies may feel overwhelmed by technological complexities. The availability of one-stop solutions such as NVIDIA's Omniverse Cloud, combined with the support of companies such as AWS and Siemens, can make this journey easier and faster for companies willing to take the leap." — Jan Burian, associate vice president, IDC Manufacturing Insights
Dec-22
IDC's European Manufacturing Summit 2022: Analyst Snapshot
IDC's European Manufacturing Summit 2022: Analyst Snapshot
Dec-22 DOC # EUR149914621 Insight
This IDC Perspective summarizes key takeaways from IDC's European Manufacturing Digital Summit 2022, which took place on November 15, 2022. The key theme of this year's summit was "Thriving in the Manufacturing Industry with PRIME." An impressive panel of speakers from our partners and manufacturing CXO community, complemented by insights from our European IDC Manufacturing Insights team, contributed to this event.
"The IDC European Manufacturing Digital Summit 2022 was very well-received by our manufacturing CXO community and our partners as it provided an opportunity to get the latest insights from IDC and its partners, discuss industry challenges, share lessons learned, and network with peer groups. The theme for our summit was 'Thriving in the manufacturing industry with PRIME' — a framework designed by the IDC Insights team to guide CEOs and C-suites on how manufacturers can master the current storms of disruption and thrive in the future by focusing on the five key elements: Purpose, Resilience, Imagination, Mastery, and Ecosystems. We have already started prep work for our next year's executive exchange scheduled on May 22 and 23 in Cascais, Portugal. We look forward to continuing the dialogue with our 2023 theme 'The Purpose-Led Manufacturer: Thriving with Impact, Scale, and Trust'," said Gunjan Bassi, research manager, IDC Manufacturing Insights, Europe.
Oct-22
State of Manufacturing: Europe Q4 2022
State of Manufacturing: Europe Q4 2022
Oct-22 DOC # EUR249766822 Presentation
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation examines the implications of the prevailing macroeconomic situation on manufacturing organizations in the eurozone (the European Union and U.K.). With the euro area suffering from high energy prices, supply chain chaos, labor shortages, and rising inflation, manufacturing organizations must fight many battles to remain profitable and competitive at the global level.
This presentation provides technology suppliers with information about how manufacturing companies are changing their priorities to address the accelerating pace of disruption. It highlights the technological areas in which end-user organizations expect inflation to have the greatest impact. It also recommends actions that should be taken to tackle the changing business conditions affecting manufacturing organizations in Europe.
Oct-22
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Industry Ecosystems 2023 Predictions
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Future of Industry Ecosystems 2023 Predictions
Oct-22 DOC # US49372022 IDC DecisionScape
This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for the future of industry ecosystems for the next six years.
"Extending and opening innovation, collaboration, and operation with partners across an ecosystem inside and outside any given industry has become a critical strategy for executives and their organizations. The world and each industry landscape are too complex, dynamic, and disruptive for any one organization to address on its own. The pace of innovation makes it difficult for organizations to keep up. As such, every organization needs an external source of data, insights, applications, operations, and expertise to complement and grow their business. Expansion, collaboration, and innovation with industry ecosystems has become the next phase of digital transformation for every organization," said Jeffrey Hojlo, research vice president, Future of Industry Ecosystems.
Oct-22
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Manufacturing 2023 Predictions
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Manufacturing 2023 Predictions
Oct-22 DOC # US48630122 IDC DecisionScape
This IDC study provides manufacturers with the top 10 predictions and underlying drivers that we expect to impact manufacturers' IT investments in 2023 and beyond. Technology leaders and their counterparts in the line-of-business (LOB) operations can use this document to guide their IT strategic planning efforts.
"The manufacturing industry has maintained its rapid pace of change and disruption, making the ability to adapt a premium. Manufacturers have encountered many challenges in their efforts to become more resilient while maintaining efficiency, but one of the most cited issues are outdated/legacy systems. While the predictions highlighted touch upon many areas of the business, the main theme that can be tied back to is having the proper digital infrastructure in place to serve as the foundation for transformation," according to Reid Paquin, research director of IDC Manufacturing Insights' IT Priorities and Strategies program.
Oct-22
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Manufacturing Product and Service Innovation 2023 Predictions
IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Manufacturing Product and Service Innovation 2023 Predictions
Oct-22 DOC # US48627622 IDC DecisionScape
This IDC study provides IDC's top 10 predictions for manufacturing product and service innovation for 2023 and beyond.
"The threat of disruption has sped up many manufacturers in their prioritization of a shift to a digital business and resilient organization. Manufacturers across value chains that include engineering, asset, brand, and high-tech-oriented environments all understand at varying speeds a need to shift their value proposition to customers and stakeholders. The ability to leverage quality data sources to make real-time and better-informed decisions have become the foundation for digital transformation initiatives. Over the coming half decade, manufacturers must face both the challenges and opportunities of digitally driven business transformation, which can deliver better products, faster service, and quality customer outcomes," said Aly Pinder, program director, Service Innovation and Connected Products Strategies at IDC Manufacturing Insights.
Oct-22
IDC PlanScape: Digital Transformation Strategies to Support Sustainable Manufacturing
IDC PlanScape: Digital Transformation Strategies to Support Sustainable Manufacturing
Oct-22 DOC # AP48624522 IDC DecisionScape
This IDC PlanScape discusses the digital transformation (DX) strategies that support manufacturing sustainability goals that would impact future organizational, operational, and sustainability goals. Sustainable strategies are helping with improvements in the manufacturing landscape. The climate crisis in today's world urges us to rethink business practices. Businesses across Asia/Pacific (AP) are under pressure to meet the regulatory requirements that aid in mitigating the challenges of climate change and environmentally sustainable manufacturing practices. Ecologically sustainable manufacturing is where efficient production of goods occurs using processes that minimize the waste of energy, water, and other resources.
"Sustainability is now a compulsory element in organization strategy and operations to increase growth and competitiveness. Successful deployment of DX strategies for sustainable manufacturing requires a joint effort from multidisciplinary teams in the organization and stakeholders across their value chain. Prudent strategic DX planning and technology investment through use case selection are essential to grow companies' sustainability capabilities to a achieve short- and long-term organization goals," says Wai Yee Lee, research manager, IDC Manufacturing Insights.
Oct-22
IDC MaturityScape: Smart Manufacturing 2.0
IDC MaturityScape: Smart Manufacturing 2.0
Oct-22 DOC # EUR149722222 IDC DecisionScape
This IDC MaturityScape describes smart manufacturing. It also provides a framework for executive leadership, IT, and production managers to identify the stages, critical measures, outcomes, and actions required for organizations to evaluate and evolve their digital factory strategies. Organizations should use this study to identify where they stand in relation to modern digital capabilities and create a path toward achieving world-class manufacturing processes. In addition, organizations can use this IDC MaturityScape as a tool to promote cross-functional and interorganizational collaboration to drive performance improvement and bring end-to-end alignment between the network of manufacturing operations and other business functions such as product design and supply chain.
"Now more than ever, companies must look into digital transformation as an important ingredient for building long-term resilience in manufacturing. In this IDC MaturityScape, we offer a model to help companies know where they stand and take steps to drive their progress," said Lorenzo Veronesi, associate research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights.
Sep-22
IDC's Worldwide Digital Transformation Use Case Taxonomy, 2022: Asset-Oriented Value Chains in the Manufacturing Industry
IDC's Worldwide Digital Transformation Use Case Taxonomy, 2022: Asset-Oriented Value Chains in the Manufacturing Industry
Sep-22 DOC # US49323522 Study
This IDC study discusses how asset-oriented value chains (chemicals, metals, and pulp/paper) are on a mission to digitally transform to develop a model for collaborative innovation.
Reid Paquin, research director, IT Priorities and Strategies, IDC Manufacturing Insights, said, "Companies in AOVC value chains have to balance many initiatives in their digital journey. The first step every organization should take is to formulate a common definition of their mission, strategic priorities, and programs so that individual projects or use cases support overall objectives."
Aug-22
5G Trends and Applications in Asia/Pacific Manufacturing
5G Trends and Applications in Asia/Pacific Manufacturing
Aug-22 DOC # AP49341222 Presentation
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation presents 5G technology trends, adoption metrics, investments, and associated regulatory initiatives. It also provides a top-level view of the prominent vendors in this field, along with relevant examples that highlight possible use cases that can be implemented within the next 12 months.
As the need for improved reliability and latency increases, the need for advanced communication technologies that support large data transfer rates also rises. 5G technology, to a large extent, aids in addressing traditional networking challenges but has its own set of issues around policy readiness, standardization, costs, ecosystem maturity, and skill set availability. Although several implementation cases are still in the pilot phase, the benefits accrued justify the associated efforts.
Aug-22
Selling to Manufacturers Playbook, 2022
Selling to Manufacturers Playbook, 2022
Aug-22 DOC # EUR149553422 Presentation
This IDC Market Presentation provides technology vendors a better understanding of the roles of buyers in their targeted manufacturing organizations. It aims to answer the following questions:
"Identifying relevant key roles in targeted manufacturing accounts and understanding their pain points and KPIs is key to sell business value rather product features and functionality," said Stefanie Naujoks, research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights Europe.
Aug-22
EMEA Manufacturing IT Application Forecast, 2020-2025
EMEA Manufacturing IT Application Forecast, 2020-2025
Aug-22 DOC # EUR149494222 Presentation
This IDC Market Presentation highlights some of the investment drivers of IT applications in key domains of the manufacturing industry: ERM, SCM, operations and manufacturing, and engineering. The report also gives an overview of major investment inhibitors and shares advice for IT vendors.
"The manufacturing industry in EMEA offers significant business opportunities for IT providers. Given political and macroeconomic uncertainties as well as volatile markets, manufacturers are driving and partially accelerating the rollout of their digital transformation initiatives on a broader scale. Understanding industry-specific business challenges will be a key success factor for IT providers looking to sell their capabilities and solutions into manufacturing accounts," said Stefanie Naujoks, research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights Europe.
Aug-22
Siemens and NVIDIA Partnership to Develop and Scale the Industrial Metaverse
Siemens and NVIDIA Partnership to Develop and Scale the Industrial Metaverse
Aug-22 DOC # EUR249518222 Insight
This IDC Market Note examines the key elements and implications of the partnership between Siemens and NVIDIA that aims to enable the industrial metaverse and increase the use of AI-driven digital twin technology across the entire product life cycle, from design through operation.
With this partnership, Siemens is seeking to help customers build photorealistic, physics-based digital twins that simulate real-world systems.
"Companies need to look at this technology as an opportunity. The industrial metaverse can become a platform that enables improved resilience, enhanced efficiency, and innovation at scale. The extensive ecosystem of technology vendors, service providers, customers, and other participants means that the metaverse is continuously evolving. The partnership between Siemens and NVIDIA, two leading industrial innovators, sets a new standard for real-time visualization and provides far-reaching opportunities for future metaverse users." — Senior Research Director Jan Burian, Head of IDC Manufacturing Insights, EMEA
Aug-22
Asia/Pacific Manufacturing IT Application Forecast 2020–2025
Asia/Pacific Manufacturing IT Application Forecast 2020–2025
Aug-22 DOC # AP49438022 Presentation
This IDC Market Forecast includes key drivers and inhibitors that had and will affect the IT application investment appetite in the Asia/Pacific manufacturing sector. The document also highlights recent initiatives by countries and organizations in the region while providing top-level advice for technology suppliers in pursuing a strategy that spans across the complete value chain.
"The investments and initiatives in the region indicate a growing interest toward enterprise applications and microservices that aid in increasing value chain visibility and reliability while identifying new avenues for revenue," says Sampath Kumar Venkataswamy, senior research manager, IDC Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Insights.
Jul-22
How the C-Suite in Manufacturing can Thrive in a Volatile, Uncertain, and Complex Business Environment
How the C-Suite in Manufacturing can Thrive in a Volatile, Uncertain, and Complex Business Environment
Jul-22 DOC # EUR149375122 Event Proceeding
This IDC Web Conference discusses manufacturing companies' focus areas, investment drivers, and priorities in the context of IDC's PRIME framework.
Manufacturing organizations today and in the future will have to operate in an environment that will continue to be volatile, uncertain, and complex. At the same time, they will have to operate in a digital and sustainable economy.
IDC Insights designed the PRIME framework to guide CEOs and the entire C-suite of organizations in the manufacturing industry on how to thrive in the future by focusing on five key elements: purpose, resilience, imagination, mastery, and ecosystems.
In this webinar, the European IDC Manufacturing Insights team maps manufacturing organizations' priorities and focus within each key element of the PRIME framework:
Jul-22
An Overview of HANNOVER MESSE 2022: The Top 10 Must-Know Trends
An Overview of HANNOVER MESSE 2022: The Top 10 Must-Know Trends
Jul-22 DOC # EUR149304222 Presentation
This IDC Market Presentation distills our team's collective observations and learnings into 10 must-know trends detailed during the HANNOVER MESSE Fair 2022. After a virtual hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 75th edition of the fair took place in a physical format. During the four-day event (May 30 to June 2), around 2,500 exhibitors presented their products and innovations to 75,000 visitors and 15,000 online attendees. This document also contextualizes our observations and learnings with IDC research as well as with the IDC PRIME framework.
Jul-22
IDC Survey Spotlight: Where Is the Priority Being Placed for Connectivity Spending for Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Organizations in 2022?
IDC Survey Spotlight: Where Is the Priority Being Placed for Connectivity Spending for Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Organizations in 2022?
Jul-22 DOC # AP49355822 Presentation
This IDC Survey Spotlight examines the connectivity services spend by Asia/Pacific manufacturers. Data has been the core of manufacturing process evolution and the role of connectivity technologies is to aid in capturing these operational metrics and curating insights in real time. Interestingly, several manufacturing organizations have admitted to investing in technologies that can help track, source, and store their operational digital footprint but do nothing beyond that. The objective of these datasets is not only for identifying historical markers that affect asset productivity, but also for predicting future aberrations and outages. And that would be possible through computing architectures either on edge or cloud by partnering with managed network SPs that can bring in industry best practices and frameworks based on existing network infrastructure maturities.
Jun-22
IDC PlanScape: Distributed Computing Needs in Manufacturing
IDC PlanScape: Distributed Computing Needs in Manufacturing
Jun-22 DOC # AP48624122 IDC DecisionScape
This IDC PlanScape discusses the benefits of distributed computing in addressing the challenges faced by manufacturers. The elements of the distributed computing and adoption strategy are highlighted in this document, giving technology buyers an in-depth perspective on the advantages of the distributed computing system architecture in manufacturers' business operations. Production examples of use case applications in various functional areas within manufacturing organizations are discussed, providing decision makers an insight into possible business outcomes from digital infrastructure investments.
"The proliferation of connected devices and industrial automation generates a data-intensive environment in manufacturing organizations. Cross-production collaboration with multiple sites is necessary to serve the dynamic market and customer demand. Organizations need to transition and transform their digital infrastructure into a reliable, agile, and high-performance computing system to drive operational efficiency and increase customer satisfaction," says Wai Yee Lee, research manager, IDC Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Insights.
Jun-22
Manufacturing Execution Systems in the Context of New, Emerging Architectures — Part 1: Business and Technological Scenarios
Manufacturing Execution Systems in the Context of New, Emerging Architectures — Part 1: Business and Technological Scenarios
Jun-22 DOC # EUR149304122 Insight
This IDC Perspective is part of a two-report series highlighting the deployment setting of manufacturing execution systems in the context of new, emerging architectures. This part focuses on business and technological scenarios. It describes the main needs of end users, highlights the key elements of modern smart factory architectures, and reviews the role of two key technologies: edge and cloud.
"Transformation into the 'factory of the future' is information driven and, therefore, user centric. Every asset produces a wealth of information that must be accessible to, managed by, and reconciled with production processes and workers' activity management," said Lorenzo Veronesi, associate research director, IDC Manufacturing Insights EMEA. "Modern MES solutions enable adopters to collect and analyze data, and they provide derived insights immediately; this enables a revolution in support of organizational tasks."
May-22
Should We Dispel the Myth That Cloud is Not Suitable for Mission-Critical Shop Floor Workloads?
Should We Dispel the Myth That Cloud is Not Suitable for Mission-Critical Shop Floor Workloads?
May-22 DOC # EUR149056722 Presentation
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insight from IDC's CloudPath Survey, 2021. This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on outlining end users' degree of confidence in their cloud infrastructures by highlighting that the vast majority of cloud applications for the shop floor are considered mission critical.
Apr-22
Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Manufacturing IT Applications Forecast, 2022–2025
Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Manufacturing IT Applications Forecast, 2022–2025
Apr-22 DOC # AP47806122 Study
This IDC Market Forecast presents a five-year forecast for the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) (APEJ) manufacturing IT applications industry as of September 2020. It reviews and analyzes market context, including both drivers and inhibitors of IT applications growth. It also highlights significant market developments, provides the best estimates of IT spending and forecast by key segment, and offers advice to technology suppliers on how to drive opportunities.
"The spending projections and investments show improved market sentiment and appetite for infrastructure and application modernization that would be critical to enable value chain visibility and, subsequently, resilience," says Sampath Kumar Venkataswamy, senior research manager, IDC Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Insights.
Apr-22
What is the Impact of Lack of Workers on Shop Floors' Key Metrics?
What is the Impact of Lack of Workers on Shop Floors' Key Metrics?
Apr-22 DOC # EUR149044622 Presentation
This IDC Survey Spotlight provides insights from IDC's Talent Management Survey, 2022. This IDC Survey Spotlight focuses on factory areas that have been negatively impacted by a shortage of skilled workers, and consequently, the degree to which the shortage of skilled workers has affected business performance.
Apr-22
The Status of Operational Data Management in the Manufacturing Industry
The Status of Operational Data Management in the Manufacturing Industry
Apr-22 DOC # EUR148984022 Presentation
This IDC Survey leverages data from IDC's Future of Operations Survey, 2021, to gain insights into the status of operational data management in the manufacturing industry. The report presents the perspectives of survey respondents across two industries — discrete and process manufacturing — on the status of operational data and its impact on decision making, as well as the key support technologies.
Mar-22
IDC Perspective: Vision-Based Quality Management Systems
IDC Perspective: Vision-Based Quality Management Systems
Mar-22 DOC # AP48624422 Insight
This IDC Perspective covers an overview of the role of advanced vision technology solutions and their implications on manufacturing quality management system (QMS). The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) data models into vision systems unlocks a whole new level of applications, moving beyond quality inspections to business operations. The deployment of vision system over cloud, edge, or hybrid platforms will improve decision model accuracy while simultaneously enabling remote monitoring and tracking for faster decision making in business operations.
"AI-based vision technology will drive vision system beyond conventional manufacturing quality inspection, creating significant value to business processes and providing a fast, consistent, and accurate AI-powered decision support. Organizations that are looking into implementing vision technology into their business operations need to keep in mind that the accuracy of AI or DL decision models relies on a significant amount of data. This means that both hardware and software infrastructures need to be sufficient to support the processing demand to ensure seamless operation. Customizable data models and the versatile options of vision system are the keys in the successful deployment that leads to improvement in organizational efficiency," says Wai Yee Lee, research manager, IDC Asia/Pacific Manufacturing Insights.