Industrial IoT plays an important role in automation as it helps generate cooperative communications and interaction from the manufacturing field involving various Industrial IoT devices. For OEMs, with rapid maintenance, technology, operating conditions, environmental regulations, or innovation-triggered changes in the underlying infrastructure, it’s hard to keep adapting the products to the evolving infrastructure, leading to sub-optimal customer engagement. OEMs can implement Industrial IoT effectively by blending the use of off-the-shelf products with optimized IIoT devices to make the integration between new and existing infrastructure easier.

This whitepaper gives an overview of Industrial IoT devices solutions and will explore various Industrial IoT technologies, and their impact on Industrial markets. It’s intended to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and end customers understand the infrastructure available for implementing Industrial IoT solutions, as well as how these solutions can help tackle different challenges across various industries, such as manufacturing, utilities, transportation, and agriculture. Through this whitepaper, OEMs can capture and understand more about Industrial IoT solutions that will help their customers automate data capture from any number of connected machines or edge devices.

COVID-19 completely disrupted the global economic landscape, creating new, undefined opportunities and subsequently unforeseen challenges and threats. We’ve seen how companies respond and pivot when faced with this disruption, but to efficiently adapt and have a successful competitive strategy, we need to shift beyond the traditional competitive intelligence (CI) agenda to one that could benefit greatly from the role of a new-age Intelligence Strategist. The traditional role of an intelligence practitioner has to evolve to encompass multiple perspectives around new technologies, growth opportunities, and product and services while anticipating the consequences of highly disruptive industry environments.

This infographic tells you about the 5 key competencies for competitive and market intelligence that you need to stay ahead in 2021. 

For almost seven years, the blue services giant has exhibited a slump growth, with dropping top-line revenues and operating income. With just seven months at the helm of a CEO role — Arvind Krishna took a bold step of splitting the company into two interdependent public listed entities—IBM and NewCo. This shift shows a transformative approach, outlining a new wave of innovations in the organization.

The aerospace and defense industry includes a range of commercial, industrial, as well as military applications, and comprises departments that design, manufacture, operate, and maintain aircraft and spacecraft. Earlier, aircraft components were manufactured at high costs and took a longer time to develop. Aircraft manufacturers today have begun moving towards 3D printed components, resulting in a significant decline in maintenance and production cost of components along with a less harmful impact on the environment.

We assess and explore the key implications of various dynamics influencing 3D printing and its impact on the evolution of the aerospace and defense industry.

Until recently, unmanned defense machines were simply controlled by human personnel via a remote location. However, the advent of AI shall enable the use of intelligent unmanned robotics in various defense applications. Leading to robots and UAVs that are smart and can perform complex tasks without any human intervention. AI can allows drone to make their own decisions and adapt to changing environments.

We assess the key advances in AI and automation while offering a glimpse into the competitive landscape as well as the key trends shaping the aerospace and defense sector.

The rechargeable battery market is witnessing rapid technological change. The advancements in technologies have made smart technology and devices widely prevalent. These technologies have further evolved with the commercialization and advancements in rechargeable batteries.

While gadgets have become smaller and exponentially more powerful, the advancements in battery technology have been incremental at best. Organizations too on their part have tried by making chips and operating systems more efficient to ensure that the power consumption is minimal. We explore the key developments in battery technology and offer insight into the promising battery technologies of the future. 

High performance fluoropolymers depict an array of superior mechanical properties such as high chemical resistance and heat stability in comparison to other polymers such as commodity plastics and engineering plastics, which are used in high-end applications with extreme temperature requirements. These factors have made them the fluoropolymer of choice in various applications.

Despite these positives, the high performance fluoropolymers market faces several challenges and we explore the competitive landscape as well as offer a glimpse into the future of this market. We delve into the key intricacies of the market while shedding some light on the major developments for high performance fluoropolymers.

Cryogenics is the science of very low temperature produced by liquefaction of permanent gases such as oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and helium. These gases are cooled to absolute zero temperature by compression and expansion of gases. This process involves various stages with multiple compression and expansion to get distilled liquid gases. The gases are then stored, transported or used using cryogenic equipment.

We assess the key market drivers and major trends that are shaping this market while assessing its increasing importance in the energy and power industry.

The wire to board connector market has evolved as technological paradigms have changed. Especially since there is an increasing reliance on technology leading to a subsequent rise in the prospects for the wire to board connector market. There exist immense opportunities for the wire to board market with the growing demand for smartphones and other connecting devices apart from automation.

 Apart from the key market drivers we assess the technological advancements, market dynamics and competitive landscape of the wire to board connector market. 

Food automation has acquired increasing prominence as it helps overcome manual errors occurring due to various steps involved in a process as well to save substantial time in the production.

Furthermore, with large globalized food chains, automation helps streamline the process of foodmanufacturing and ensures brand integrity and quality to end consumers. It helps manufacturers adopt a granular and cohesive approach to food manufacturing while lowering lead times. We explore the key trends and technologies that are expected to shape the future of the food automation market while also offering a glimpse into the competitive landscape.

Advanced composites are prevalently being used in a large degree of applications right from construction to aircraft material owing to their light weight and high tensile strength. This has made them the preferred material of choice in various new applications through improvements in structural, functional or cosmetic properties. Industrial applications for advanced composites has also made the overall market an extremely competitive one.

This has also led to various innovations and novel areas of use. We assess the key areas of opportunity, competitive landscape and overall market outlook for advanced composites.

The advent of AI based technologies holds the potential to revolutionize the world and bring in a possible utopia of science and technology. This is largely possible due to AI espousing greater than human levels of intelligence. AI is being used in nearly all fields today from marketing, analytics to self-driven cars.

We explore the potential implications of various developments in AI and provide insight into the enormous opportunities that are present in the AI solutions market. We examine the steady consonance of disparate technologies as they come together to usher in an age of singularity.

The approach towards computing is undergoing a sea change from brute force computing to one that mimics the human brain. This change shall herald the age of neuromorphic chips where learning is possible at the hardware level. The advent of neuromorphic chips shall have profound implications for AI and Deep Learning algorithms. The emerging architecture tries to imitate how the brain processes information effectively from various visual and auditory stimuli.

We look at the opportunities for the Neuromorphic Chips Market while offering insight into its future

Conventionally, electronics were considered as being rigid structures. This perspective is fast changing as elastomers are aggressively replacing conventional rigid materials in the electronics industry. As electronics find new applications, flexibility has become a much sought after feature. That is why Silicone elastomers have attracted interest of several electronic component manufacturers who are keen on developing their share in the elastomer market. The primary reason behind the increased demand for silicone elastomers is their conductive and insulative nature.

We assess the key technological advancements with elastomers and offer a prognosis of its use in commercial applications for electronics.

AI Is a boon to organizations that engage in extensive marketing efforts.  It can help organizations design effective marketing campaigns and target their clients better. AI has evolved to the degree where it goes far beyond predictive analytics and significantly enrich end user interactions. Ergo, AI enabled data can help a brand acquire real time data to act appropriately in various situations.

We assess the various where AI can enhance marketing endeavors leading to a more result oriented business for organizations and end users both in real time.

Safety and security has become pivotal in modern railways as various intelligent techniques and solutions are becoming increasingly deployed to consolidate these very goals.  Today, rail transportation systems have become smart with the aid of technological advancements such as smart meters, sensors and grids that offer increased connectivity to enable a robust railway transportation system. Here track geometry helps assess tracks and its inherent irregularities significantly enhancing security while considerably bringing down the threat of a rail mishap.

We analyze the key factors shaping the track geometry measurement systems and delve into its intricacies.

3D printing is revolutionizing manufacturing and has the potential to de-centralize the process of product innovation. Its software driven nature can lead to a new era where there exist no hardwired capital costs of building a sophisticated assembly line.  Everyone from automobile manufacturers to shoemakers is exploring 3D printing as a viable option to conventional manufacturing.

Various advancements in 3D printing are leading to new applications across sectors and when done correctly this method of manufacturing can lead to enormous cost savings across the supply chain. MarketsandMarkets explores the key trends and market drivers for 3D Printing becoming a critical tool for manufacturing as well as the supply chain.

Sensors have come a long way from being basic devices that detect and respond to an input in a physical environment to being a vital building block in the Internet of Things (IoT) world. They come in all shapes and sizes these days and fulfill all sorts of uses. From pressure and humidity sensors gradually appearing in smartphones, to night vision and infrared, sensors are everywhere and in every form. They're making palpable progress in integrating more electronics content in a bid to better serve the battery-powered IoT devices.

Use of sensors across a complete mass of products and businesses is exploding. As these sensors become more robust and exhibit greater fidelity, we’re beginning to see really interesting ways companies are using them to collect data and interpret that in a digital format. Here’s a look at top 10 sensors.

Various advancements and ground breaking innovations have helped enhance the overall efficiency of solar power.  The nature of these advancements has helped make solar power a highly compelling proposition vis-à-vis conventional power sources. The case for the utilization is also strong in developing nations that have an abundance of sunlight. Harnessing power from a limitless source like solar power could help trade, industry and the overall economy of these countries.

MarketsandMarkets examines the key trends and factors that are impacting the future of solar power and highlight how it is becoming a force to be reckoned with.