Get comprehensive insight and data related to digital maturity within and across industries. Explore best practices, investment priorities, drivers, and inhibitors that are shaping the use of digital technologies.
Industrial & Manufacturing Markets Coverage Areas
ABI Research's Industrial & Manufacturing Markets Research Service provides comprehensive insight into how best-of-breed technologies are being positioned, deployed, and utilized in different industrial markets. Our deep qualitative research and expansive market data provide critical vertical knowledge. We also conduct benchmarking to highlight leaders, track progress in digital transformation, surface industry-germane use cases, assess how innovations are being operationalized, and identify the vendors that manufacturers rely on.
- Discrete Manufacturing Markets
- Aerospace & defense
- Automotive
- Consumer electronics
- Consumer goods
- Industrial machinery
- Process Manufacturing Markets
- Chemicals
- Food & beverage
- Mining
- Oil & gas
- Pharmaceuticals
Industrial & Manufacturing Markets Research Powers Technology Innovation & Implementation
For Innovators
We help technology providers uncover what truly differentiates each vertical—so they can tailor solutions, accelerate adoption, and win where one-size-fits-all strategies fail.
For Implementers
We empower implementers with real-world insight into how leading organizations tackle talent gaps, demographic shifts, and large-scale innovation—driving smarter investment and execution decisions.
Our Industrial & Manufacturing Markets Research Helps Solve Real Business Challenges For Key Stakeholders
Communications Providers
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Clarify the use cases that connectivity solutions can support
- Track progress made by competitors across different verticals
- Assess potential appetite for solutions within vertical markets
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- What use cases resonate most in a vertical market?
- What are competitors doing in this vertical?
- How do we position ourselves to support client challenges?
Hardware Suppliers
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Understand the extent to which AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI are being utilized in vertical markets
- Identify which verticals are embracing data utilization
- Spot smaller firms that should be on the competitive radar
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- Which vertical markets are making the most progress digitizing their operations?
- What are the preferred form factors in a vertical market?
- What features are critical for success in a vertical, such as screen size or camera capabilities?
Industrial Software Providers
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Define investment priorities for individual verticals
- Select use cases to include in vertical market messaging
- Identify potential software partners
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- Which vertical or verticals should be targeted for a solution?
- What types of devices and software are being deployed to solve challenges?
- What opportunities exist for joint Go-to-Market (GTM) strategies?
System Integrators
- What challenges can we help you solve?
- Understand how clients compare with competitors in their digital transformation journeys
- Identify partners to deliver projects
- Identify innovative suppliers that could make a difference at client sites
- What key questions can we help you answer?
- What are the unique challenges faced by companies in individual verticals?
- What are companies’ investment priorities regarding digital technologies?
- Which vendors are well placed to meet those challenges?