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Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy

Download the Gartner® Hype CycleTM for Manufacturing Operations Strategy, 2024 for a view of innovative concepts and emerging technologies, including Industrial Data Management and Machine Learning.

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HYPE CYCLE

Gartner Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy, 2024

Authors: Simon Jacobson, Chris Campbell, Jake Cunningham

Manufacturing operations are under relentless pressure. Scaling digital and operational capabilities while navigating risky environments are driving manufacturing operations to readjust their priorities.  

This Hype Cycle helps heads of manufacturing strategy make informed decisions that balance digital transformation, risk mitigation, cost pressures, capability building, and continuous improvement. The report is designed to help industrial businesses make informed decisions about emerging technologies to reduce the risk of technology investment decisions.  

Leverage the model in this report to learn about the maturity, business impact, obstacles, and user recommendations for emerging technologies like Industrial Data Management and Machine Learning.

Emerging Technologies

Industrial Data Management

In this report, Gartner defines Industrial Data Management as the process of contextualizing, normalizing, modeling and transforming data generated in industrial settings. These activities are fundamental to an organization’s ability to collect, store, and use industrial data for initiatives like process performance improvement, scaling IoT use cases, AI implementation, smart manufacturing, and more.  

Gartner views Industrial Data Management as an “Emerging” market with a “Transformational” benefit rating and names HighByte as a Sample Vendor.  

Machine Learning

Gartner defines Machine Learning (ML) as an AI discipline that uses statistical models to identify predicted insights and logical patterns based on the analysis of large sets of data. Despite a rising market penetration of 20-50% of the target audience, ML adoption faces obstacles, including data complexity, lack of an industrial data management framework, and heterogenous systems and data sources. The report recommends users ensure the availability, readiness, and context of the data that will be used by ML algorithms to overcome these obstacles.  

Gartner views ML as an “Emerging” market with a “High” benefit rating and names HighByte as a Sample Vendor.  

What is a Hype Cycle?

Hype Cycle reports are published by Gartner each year across various domains to help companies make informed decisions about investing in emerging technologies and reduce the risk of technology investment decisions.  

A Hype Cycle report includes a graphical representation of the five phases that a new technology typically goes through:  

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Innovation Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven. 

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Peak of Inflated Expectations: Early publicity produces a number of success stories — often accompanied by scores of failures. Some companies take action; many do not. 

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Trough of Disillusionment: Interest wanes as experiments and implementations fail to deliver. Producers of the technology shake out or fail. Investments continue only if the surviving providers improve their products to the satisfaction of early adopters. 

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Slope of Enlightenment: More instances of how the technology can benefit the enterprise start to crystallize and become more widely understood. Second- and third-generation products appear from technology providers. More enterprises fund pilots; conservative companies remain cautious. 

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Plateau of Productivity: Mainstream adoption starts to take off. Criteria for assessing provider viability are more clearly defined. The technology's broad market applicability and relevance are clearly paying off. 

Disclaimer: Gartner, Hype Cycle for Manufacturing Operations Strategy, Simon Jacobson, Chris Campbell, Jake Cunningham, 17 July 2024  

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