The evolution of manufacturing in line with Industry 4.0 trends is poised to disrupt business rules and dynamics across existing supplier landscapes. This will bring about a fundamental change in the way suppliers offer solutions and services. The emphasis on a heterogeneous value proposition is gaining traction, leading to fresh synergies and partnerships among vendors in industrial automation, measurement and instrumentation, ICT and banking an...

As the disastrous implications of global warming become clearer, the worldwide community has begun corrective actions in earnest to create a low carbon economy. A major part of these efforts involve the propagation of low carbon manufacturing technologies and techniques, which not only reduce the effects of global warming but also offer tremendous cost benefits in the long term.

The widespread adoption of M2M communications, the shift from reactive to predictive analytics for the IoT and continuing virtualisation of network functions are compelling service providers to seek advanced testing solutions for big data and cloud analytics. Testing methodologies that can check the conformance of higher level infrastructure will prove critical in a digital environment that is characterised by LTE, HetNets and cloud computing.

The future of manufacturing is defined by the Industry 4.0 paradigm, which will be singularly determined by the design, development and implementation of the IoT. This in turn will give rise to a new market called the Internet of Industrial Things (IoIT), which includes a combination of disparate market participants, starting from the segments of traditional industrial automation to commercial vendors from the ICT space, who hold a strong leverag...

The dawn of the Internet of Industrial Things (IoIT), fuelled by the adoption of wireless technologies and intelligent devices to improve asset connectivity, has further attributed to a proportional increase in the inflow of data. In addition to traditional data management systems, large volumes of structured and unstructured data require a scalable framework to store, integrate and process big data. Furthermore, as end users look to derive ...

ICT investment across vertical markets will outpace Europe’s average GDP growth in the forthcoming years. Compared to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s nominal GDP forecast of 2.2% for the 2014-2016 period, total ICT spending by industries in the region is expected to increase at a much faster average year-on-year growth rate of 3.3% between 2014 and 2019.

In an intensely competitive business environment, the need to track and locate assets, personnel and items for operational efficiency and security is driving the global RTLS market. Sophisticated RTLS that provides real-time data to facilitate decision making will gain traction in organisations around the world. Moreover, the convergence of RTLS with sensor technologies will enable remote condition monitoring of assets and personnel, spurring ado...

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, The Safety-Security Argument: Expanding Needs in a Connected Enterprise, finds that the global cybersecurity market for control systems is expected to grow at 20-25% every year till 2021. North America and Europe will remain at the forefront of creating awareness and initiating technology advancements that address attacks from advanced persistent threats.

According to the Future of Customer Experience with User Interface Technologies analysis from Frost & Sullivan, the future of UIs will largely rely on touchless, hands-free operation. Technologies like gesture recognition, image recognition and Natural Language Processing (NLP) will be increasingly used to design accessible UIs that enable secure, reliable and touchless interactions.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Services 2.0: The New Business Frontier for Profitability, finds that the paradigm of service strategies will shift from corrective to preventive and predictive maintenance services over the next five years. Effective utilisation of predictive analytics can optimise costs and eliminate unplanned downtime, which are highly attractive benefits for manufacturers.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Growth Opportunities in the Global Wearable Devices Market, finds that wearable devices will play a large role in the healthcare industry delivering improved healthcare services through real-time, remote patient monitoring and post-surgery rehabilitation. Smart watches and fitness bands are the most popular wearable devices.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Investing in the Currency of the Future: Big Data for the Manufacturing Domain, finds that discrete industries such as life sciences, automotive, aerospace, food and beverage, hi-tech and general manufacturing account for 14% of global stored data and hold tremendous promise for big data and analytic solutions.

Recent analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Analysis of the Global Biosensors Market, finds that the market generated revenues of $11.53bn in 2014 which is estimated to more than double to $28.78bn in 2021. Though innovation has facilitated biosensor penetration into a number of diverse markets, healthcare and food pathogen detection are currently the largest application segments.

The Aerospace and Defence (A&D) industry policy of getting things right on the first attempt has created a greater need for testing and measurement/inspection. With a number of complex systems in place, the emphasis is particularly on electronic test and dimensional metrology solutions.

The subject of IoT is currently in a nascent phase in the manufacturing sector. With the push toward modernisation and cyber-physical production, the influence of IoT is expected to fuel change across every segment of the manufacturing value chain. Frost & Sullivan's upcoming complimentary live webniar will discover the business impact to the evolution of IoT within the manufacturing sector.

In the evolution towards the Smart Manufacturing paradigm, end-user requirements are set to evolve and become more complex than ever before. Global suppliers find it increasingly difficult to meet the growing needs of the end-users that are further augmented with a very high degree of complexity. However, the current scenario will also provide the biggest opportunity to realign one’s existing business approach and forge alliances and partne...

As the trend towards connected living and the IoT continues to permeate home, work and city solutions, the need to keep tabs on a myriad of connected devices will thrust the global IoT testing and monitoring equipment market into the spotlight. The incorporation of M2M communication, central to IoT deployment, as well as modules that require less power and bandwidth will bring with it several challenges that turn into a boon for testing and monit...

Escalating energy demand and improving wind turbine technologies are fuelling the wind energy market and encouraging wind turbine installations. In turn, this is boosting the consumption of high-performance and lightweight blade materials, such as fibre, resins and core foam materials that can be used to increase blade length while keeping blade weight low.

Analysis from Frost & Sullivan, titled Market Opportunity for RFID Smart Cabinet Systems in Healthcare, finds that the uptake of RFID smart cabinets is likely to gather momentum over the next three to five years. The United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy and Spain are leading markets.

Carbon nanotubes and graphene have been competing head-to-head for many of the same applications in recent years. For most applications, the development of carbon nanotubes has been gradually rising but graphene has been making drastic progress. In the form of oxides or nanoplatelets, graphene is in a better position to fulfil market needs, as it is durable, stretchable and lightweight.