Industrial AI & efficiency — data reports
In-depth "state of" reports on the technologies reshaping heavy industry — predictive maintenance, energy efficiency, automation and more. Each pulls together the public numbers with charts, original analysis and cited sources.
State of Predictive Maintenance 2026
Predictive maintenance has moved from pilot projects to budgeted, scaled deployment. The market is growing near 30% a year, AI ado…
State of Industrial Energy Efficiency 2026
Energy efficiency is the cheapest, fastest tonne of carbon a plant can save — and the numbers show it scaling. Global efficiency i…
State of Manufacturing Decarbonisation 2026
Industry is roughly a quarter of global energy-related emissions, and most of that comes from a handful of hard-to-abate processes…
State of Computer Vision Quality Control 2026
Automated visual inspection has quietly become one of the most reliable returns in the factory. Cameras paired with deep-learning …
State of Industrial Energy Management 2026
Managing energy actively — metering it, controlling it, and shifting it in time — is becoming standard practice rather than a sust…
State of AI in Food & Beverage Manufacturing 2026
Artificial intelligence in food and beverage manufacturing has shifted from novelty to operating tool — used for quality inspectio…
State of AI in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing 2026
In pharmaceutical manufacturing, AI's clearest near-term value is not drug discovery but quality and operations — where deviations…
State of AI in the Chemical Industry 2026
The chemical industry is the largest industrial energy consumer on the planet, which makes process optimisation the natural home f…
State of Industrial Automation & Robotics 2026
Factory automation has stopped being a story about a handful of car plants. Annual robot installations have topped half a million …
State of Industrial IoT & Connectivity 2026
The connected factory is no longer aspirational — the number of connected devices crossed 21 billion in 2025, the industrial slice…
State of Digital Twins in Manufacturing 2026
Digital twins have crossed from concept demos into mainstream advanced-industry practice. Adoption among advanced-industry firms i…
State of Industrial Heat Recovery & Reuse 2026
Industry throws away a startling share of the energy it buys — between a fifth and a half of every fuel input leaves the plant as …
State of Compressed Air Efficiency 2026
Compressed air is often called the fourth utility, and it is also one of the most wasteful. It consumes around a tenth of all indu…
State of Industrial Electrification 2026
Swapping fuel for electricity is the central decarbonisation move for the part of industry that does not need extreme heat — and t…
State of Steel Decarbonisation 2026
Steel is the single largest industrial source of carbon dioxide, responsible for somewhere between 7% and 9% of global emissions. …
State of Cement & Concrete Decarbonisation 2026
Concrete is the most-used material on the planet after water, and the cement that binds it accounts for roughly 7–8% of global CO2…
State of ESG & Sustainability Reporting in Industry 2026
Sustainability reporting has become standard practice for the world's largest companies, even as the regulation behind it is being…
State of Green Hydrogen in Industry 2026
Green hydrogen has been promised as the clean fuel for the parts of industry that electricity cannot reach — high-temperature heat…
State of Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Storage 2026
Carbon capture is the lever the hard-to-abate sectors lean on for the emissions that efficiency and electrification cannot remove …
State of the Circular Economy in Manufacturing 2026
The circular economy promises to break the link between making things and consuming new raw material — designing out waste, keepin…
State of Industrial Water & Wastewater Management 2026
Industry takes about a fifth of the world's freshwater and returns much of it dirtier than it found it — yet most wastewater globa…
State of AI in Mining 2026
Mining is one of the most physically demanding, capital-heavy and safety-critical of all industries, which makes it fertile ground…
State of Industrial Supply Chain & Logistics AI 2026
Supply chains learned the hard way over recent years that visibility and resilience are worth paying for, and AI is now the main t…
State of AI Adoption in European Manufacturing 2026
Artificial-intelligence use across European businesses is no longer marginal: official Eurostat surveys show enterprise adoption r…
State of European Industrial Energy & Decarbonization 2026
European industry runs increasingly on electricity, and the electricity feeding it is getting cleaner. Eurostat data show industry…
State of EU Manufacturing: Enterprises & Resilience 2026
Behind the EU's industrial output sits a vast population of firms. Eurostat business-demography data show more than 33 million ent…