The Voice of Digital Leaders in Manufacturing 2026 report

Preregistration open: Get real perspectives from manufacturing leaders on customer centricity, navigating change, AI risk and what truly separates progress from inertia in digital transformation.

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Digital leadership in manufacturing has entered a new phase.

Across industrial sectors, leaders are no longer debating whether to invest in digital. They are working through how to make it stick in organizations shaped by complexity, long cycles and constant external pressure. 

 

In general, digital is all about the customer and understanding how you can improve your customer experience and best serve your customers. Serve your customers in the way that they want to be served. That is really what it's all about. Everything else is either secondary or noise.

Maurice Bernards, Global Product Portfolio Manager, ABB Motion 


The Voice of Digital Leaders in Manufacturing 2026 report is built from in-depth conversations with senior digital, commercial and transformation leaders inside global manufacturing companies. It captures how they describe their reality today: what’s working, where friction persists and what is quietly differentiating organizations that are making progress. 

What's really helped us to scale up quickly is to have one global ERP, one global CRM system worldwide. That way, we're able to implement processes across all of these applications quite quickly.

Tanja Tschech, Digital Transformation Manager, Röhm 

What you will learn

  • How manufacturing leaders are responding to permanent volatility 
  • Where digital experience is actually creating business value 
  • Why adoption, not technology, is the biggest constraint 
  • How organizations are aligning people, processes and data in practice 
  • What defines the emerging connected manufacturer 


Who is this report for? 

CDOs, CIOs and digital leaders who are past ambition and into execution. However, anyone with an interest in digital transformation in a manufacturing environment will get great value from it.

Register now to be notified when the full report is released and get early access to Voice of Digital Leaders in Manufacturing 2026. 

 

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