Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing Market Report 2026–2030

Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing Market Report 2026-2030

1. Executive summary
   1. Executive summary (5 parts)
   2. 3 key action items from this report for…
2. Introduction
   1. Introduction—Chapter overview and key takeaways
   2. Historical context
   3. Smart manufacturing definition and application
   4. Interest in smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0
   5. Smart manufacturing vs. smart connected products
   6. Definitions by key organizations
   7. IoT Analytics’ definition of smart manufacturing
   8. Commonalities in definitions
   9. Vertical scope of the report
   10. Smart manufacturing technology maturity models (2 parts)
   11. Industry 4.0 benchmarks and productivity gains
   12. Manufacturing jobs and robot density
   13. Current state of Industry 4.0 maturity
   14. Technology priorities
   15. Vision for the coming years
   16. Industry survey (2 parts)
   17. Typical benefits of implementation
   18. Example—WEF Lighthouse factory (2 parts)
3. Market overview & competitive landscape
   1. Market size & outlook overview
   2. Global smart manufacturing market—Overall
   3. General drivers and inhibitors
   4. Data in perspective
   5. Global smart manufacturing market—By segments
   6. Global smart manufacturing market—By technology
   7. Global smart manufacturing market—Technology share shifts
   8. Industry 4.0 technologies—Growth vs. Maturity
   9. Overall—Top 20 smart manufacturing vendors
   10. Key company profile—ABB (2 parts)
   11. Key company profile—Siemens (6 parts)
   12. Key company profile—Emerson (2 parts)
   13. Key company profile—Schneider Electric (2 parts)
   14. Key company profile—Microsoft (2 parts)
4. Overarching trends and challenges
   1. Overarching trends and challenges—Chapter overview
   2. Trend 1 (2 parts)
   3. Trend 2 (4 parts)
   4. Trend 3
   5. Trend 4
   6. Trend 5 (2 parts)
   7. Trend 6
   8. Overarching challenges—Overview
   9. Challenge 1
   10. Challenge 2
   11. Challenge 3
   12. Challenge 4
   13. Challenge 5
5. Core tech stack
   1. Industry 4.0 tech stack—Chapter overview and key takeaways
   2. Smart manufacturing tech stack elements (2 parts)
   3. Global Smart manufacturing core tech stack market—By segments
   4. Edge—Definition and Market size
   5. Edge hardware—Competitive landscape
   6. Global smart manufacturing edge market—By region and industry
   7. Detailed edge market segments (3 parts)
   8. Edge—Field instruments (2 parts)
   9. Edge—Remote I/O (2 parts)
   10. Edge—PLC (2 parts)
   11. Edge—DCS (2 parts)
   12. Edge—HMI (2 parts)
   13. Edge—Gateways (2 parts)
   14. Edge—IPCs (2 parts)
   15. Edge—Trends: Overview
   16. Edge—Trend 1 (2 parts)
   17. Edge—Trend 2
   18. Edge—Trend 3
   19. Edge—Trend 4 (3 parts)
   20. Edge—Trend 5
   21. Edge—Trend 6
   22. Platforms/middleware—Definition and Market size
   23. Platforms/middleware—Competitive landscape
   24. Global smart manufacturing platforms/middleware market—By region and industry
   25. Detailed platforms/middleware market segments (3 parts)
   26. Platforms/middleware—Message brokers (3 parts)
   27. Platforms/middleware—Device management (2 parts)
   28. Platforms/middleware—Application management (2 parts)
   29. Platforms/middleware—Data management (4 parts)
   30. Platforms/middleware—Industrial DataOps (2 parts)
   31. Platforms/middleware—AI platforms (2 parts)
   32. Platforms/middleware—Protocol converters (2 parts)
   33. Platforms/middleware—Trends: Summary
   34. Platforms/middleware—Trend 1 (3 parts)
   35. Platforms/middleware—Trend 2 (2 parts)
   36. Platforms/middleware—Trend 3 (2 parts)
   37. Platforms/middleware—Trend 4
   38. Platforms/middleware—Trend 5
   39. Platforms/middleware—Trend 6
   40. Platforms/middleware—Trend 7 (3 parts)
   41. Platforms/middleware—Trend 8
   42. Smart manufacturing software applications—Definition and Market size
   43. Applications—Competitive landscape
   44. Global smart manufacturing applications market—By region and industry
   45. Detailed applications market segments (3 parts)
   46. Applications: Industrial automation software (2 parts)
   47. Applications: MOM/MES (2 parts)
   48. Applications: Asset performance and management (2 parts)
   49. Applications: Factory logistics (2 parts)
   50. Applications: Trends: Summary
   51. Applications—Trend 1 (2 parts)
   52. Applications—Trend 2
   53. Applications—Trend 3
   54. Applications—Trend 4
   55. Applications—Trend 5
   56. Applications—Trend 6
   57. Applications—Trend 7
   58. Applications—Trend 8 (2 parts)
   59. Applications—Trend 9 (2 parts)
   60. Security—Definition
   61. Security: Key software components (7 parts)
   62. Security—Market size & competitive landscape
   63. Global smart manufacturing security market—By region and industry
   64. Detailed security market segments (3 parts)
   65. Security: Trends: Summary
   66. Security—Trend 1
   67. Security—Trend 2 (2 parts)
   68. Security—Trend 3
   69. Security—Trend 4
   70. Security—Trend 5
6. Supporting technologies
   1. Smart manufacturing supporting technologies—Chapter overview
   2. Elements of smart manufacturing—Supporting technologies
   3. Global smart manufacturing supporting technologies market—By segments and region
   4. Supporting Tech—Competitive landscape
   5. Detailed supporting technologies market segments (3 parts)
   6. Additive manufacturing—Definition, use cases, market, and trends (6 parts)
   7. Stationary robots—Definition, use cases, market, and trends (11 parts)
   8. Autonomous mobile robots—Definition, use cases, market, and trends (7 parts)
   9. Machine vision—Definition, use cases, market, and trends (11 parts)
   10. Augmented reality—Definition, use cases, market, and trends (4 parts)
   11. Humanoid robots—Select vendors
7. Services
   1. Services—Chapter overview and key takeaways
   2. Professional services for smart manufacturing—Overview (3 parts)
   3. Adopter perspective—Buy or build? (2 parts)
   4. Professional services for smart manufacturing—Market size
   5. Example—How vendors provide smart manufacturing services
   6. Trends & challenges overview
   7. Trend 1 (3 parts)
   8. Trend 2
   9. Trend 3 (2 parts)
   10. End-user challenge 1 (4 parts)
   11. End-user challenge 2
   12. End-user challenge 3
8. Use cases
   1. Use case analysis—Chapter overview
   2. KPI optimization and OEE
   3. Use case adoption and definitions (2 parts)
   4. Use cases 1 through 14
9. Case studies
   1. Case studies—Overarching insights
   2. Case study 1: Gousto (10 parts)
   3. Case study 2: Michelin (10 parts)
   4. Case study 3: Georgia-Pacific (9 parts)
   5. Case study 4: Ford (16 parts)
   6. Case study 5: Roche (12 parts)
10. Adoption landscape
    1. Adoption landscape—Chapter overview
    2. End user adoption—Survey overviews (2 parts)
    3. State of smart factories—Scalability and security
    4. Smart factory paradigms and technologies
    5. Severity of challenges
    6. Cybersecurity breaches examples
    7. Leading smart factory adopters
    8. Analysis of leading adopters (3 parts)
    9. Tesla Giga Berlin example
    10. Challenges and adoption barriers
    11. Impact of AI on applications
    12. AI adoption, elements, and cost savings
11. Methodology & market definitions
    1. Research Methodology
12. About IoT Analytics
    1. About IoT Analytics and other publications
    2. Information and contact