The Advanced Manufacturing Outlook is a survey that measures Industry 4.0 engagement among manufacturing business owners and senior executives in Canada. For a second consecutive year, research firm R.K. Insights in Toronto conducted the survey through June and July form Canadian Manufacturing and PLANT magazines, in partnership with Machines Italia (The Italian Trade Commission), Lapp Group North America and Alps Welding Ltd. 185 manufacturers participated in Advanced Manufacturing Outlook 2021 with the survey findings strongly representing the industry with a margin of error is +/- 6%, 19 times out of 20. The focus of the year’s research is Industry 4.0 in all its aspects and dimensions such as automation, interconnectivity, machine learning and the analysis of real time data that involves the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the Internet of Things (IoT), the cloud, advanced computing, and artificial intelligence.
Relevant Sectors:
Agriculture and Farm Machinery, Ceramics Machinery, Construction and earthmoving machinery, Equipment and components for hydraulic transmissions, Food technology, Footwear, leather goods and tanneries, Foundry and metallurgy machines, Glass, Marble and stone, Metalworking, Packaging, Plastic and rubber, Power transmission and motion systems, Printing, graphics and processing, Textile machinery, Wood
Italian Trade Agency & Society of Manufacturing 2016 Industry 4.0 Survey
This survey of Industry 4.0 was conducted by the Italian Trade Agency Chicago USA Office and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in November 2016 with over 325 companies based in the US taking part (2/3 of which currently use Italian machinery and technology in their production lines). The report provides insight and analysis to determine the latest trends in Smart Manufacturing to determine how manufacturers are reacting to Industry 4.0. Questions included plans to adopt the connected factory on the shop floor in regards to technology acquisitions, upgrades and migrations to benchmark current awareness/understanding and the perceive ‘role’ of digital solutions, identify current adoptions and areas of focus. Over the last decade, the evolution of the Internet of Things, Big Data and the desire for ever-increasing productivity has driven the smart manufacturing movement. Today, manufacturers can see and react to the performance of their machines and integrated systems with analytics in real time. They can enable machines to talk to one other, control operations remotely, predict challenges and even share live data with the supply chain. Advancements in cloud computing, as well as mobile and app technology, increasingly puts power into the users’ hands.
Relevant Sectors:
Agriculture and Farm Machinery, Ceramics Machinery, Construction and earthmoving machinery, Equipment and components for hydraulic transmissions, Food technology, Footwear, leather goods and tanneries, Foundry and metallurgy machines, Glass, Marble and stone, Metalworking, Packaging, Plastic and rubber, Power transmission and motion systems, Printing, graphics and processing, Textile machinery, Wood