Speak up, add your voice to our 2024 State of Initiative Report

Each year, we ask our audience to tell us specifics about their digital transformation journey—the hits and misses, their successes and failures or whether the jury is still out on their projects, both simple initiatives to mark quick successes and those that are taking months or even years and are comparatively much more complex.

We're asking you to please answer our eighth-annual State of Initiative survey. We want to hear it all.

We utilize the information from the 20-question survey (which will run until Nov. 1) to gauge your direction on transformation in this Industry 4.0 era and to tailor our coverage of technology in manufacturing, both OT and our increasing focus on IT, and produce our widely used State of Initiative Report, which debuts just after the first of every year.

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If you're a CEO, CIO, CISO, plant technology manager, a production floor engineer, a factory floor terminal maintainer—really any manufacturing job connected to your company's technology—this report is for you!

Based on your responses, the 2024 downloadable PDF (just like the 2023 report) will tell you how digital strategies in manufacturing are maturing; how plant priorities are shifting; what the business drivers of digital transformation were this year (increased productivity, reducing costs, optimizing utlization, enhancing the customer experience, creating new business, and improved sustainability, for example); and the most- and least-implemented technologies, among other trends.

The report also deals forthrightly with what you tell us are the largest obstacles to digital transformation (the workforce skills gap, lack of employee knowledge, security concerns, lack of senior management knowledge, and government regulations, for example).

So please take our survey! We at Smart Industry thank you!