Industry 4.0 Adoption Report 2022

217-page report on the state of Industry 4.0 adoption based on the input from 500 senior executives in manufacturing companies including:

• Implementation state of smart factory strategy and 7 more strategies related to industry 4.0 across different regions and industries

• Importance and planned improvement of respondents' KPIs across a list of 27 different KPIs

• The decision makers and alignment of companies with different frameworks/consortia

• Adoption and planned investment for 15 smart manufacturing and 16 connected products use cases across regions and industries

• Vendors involved in smart factory projects

• Biggest technical challenges faced by respondents

• And more

The “Industry 4.0 Adoption Report 2022” is part of IoT Analytics' ongoing coverage of industrial IoT. The information presented in this report is based on extensive research and an extensive survey of 500 senior executives in manufacturing companies.

The purpose of this document is to inform interested parties of the current state of adoption of Industry 4.0 use cases across manufacturers through the IoT Analytics research lens.

Questions answered in this report:

• What smart factory KPIs are most important to manufacturers?

• What are the most adopted Industry 4.0 use cases for operations and products?

• Who are the decision makers in Industry 4.0 projects?

• What are some of the skill gaps that inhibit manufacturers from moving from proof of concept (PoC) to commercial deployment?

• How do manufacturers procure software and where do they host it?

• How do manufacturers plan to purchase software in the next three years?

• Where do companies run key workloads?

• What kind of vendors are most often involved in Industry 4.0 projects?

• What are the most common techniques to secure the shop floor?

• How do manufacturers secure connected products?

At a glance:

Definition (as per IoT Analytics)

"The use of modern I4.0 tech stack elements (1) or specific supporting technologies (2) that enable manufacturers to integrate various data sources, achieve higher OEE, reduce costs, or improve other KPIs relevant to a production setup (manufacturing of goods, mining, and oil and gas), mostly in conjunction with rolling out new or improved use cases."

The Industry 4.0 Adoption Report 2022 looks at the adoption of smart factories technologies through seven lenses.

• 1. Strategy
• 2. KPIs
• 3. Decision makind and frameworks
• 4. Use case adoption
• 5. Deployment in the cloud and on the edge
• 6. Vendors
• 7. Challenges

This report includes statistics on the progress in the implementation of 8 different strategies across regions, industries, and company sizes.

The results show the importance each KPI has for the smart factory strategy across a list of 27 KPIs.

This publication includes a detailed breakdown of the final decision makers by decision type.

This report includes extended statistics for smart manufacturing and connected products use cases, including adoption rate and planned investments across regions and industries.

IoT Analytics includes detailed deep dives into the adoption and planned investment for each of the:

• 15 smart manufacturing use cases

• 16 smart product use cases

Selected companies mentioned in the report: