Prnewswire news, the global industrial digitization is still overcoming many obstacles, steady progress. In response to the state of the global Industry, MHP Consulting, in collaboration with the University of Munich, has published the Industry 4.0 Barometer 2024. The study surveyed 856 representatives of different industrial companies from China (248), the United States (204), Germany, Austria, Switzerland (DACH) region (203) and the United Kingdom (201).

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The results of the study found significant regional differences when comparing companies. In China, 66 percent of respondents said they use tracking technology completely or partially in their processes, compared to 64 percent in the United States, 47 percent in the United Kingdom, and only 36 percent in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). Regional differences are even more pronounced when it comes to Digital Twins. In China, 72% of companies surveyed use digital mapping technology fully or partially throughout their logistics operations to map process and status data. The equivalent figure is 43% in the US, 29% in the UK and 25% in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). Forty-one percent of respondents in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) said they had not used autonomous machines or robots in industry, compared with 28 percent in the United States and only 2 percent in China.

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Christina Reich, Professor and MHP Manager at the Applied Technical University of Economics and Management (FOM) in Essen, Germany, said: “In essence, China is leading the world by a considerable margin, in all aspects of Industry 4.0 – at the same time, even the United States is far behind in almost all areas of Industry 4.0. The UK is usually third on the list, but it’s mainly Germany, GXT3-3000RT230 Austria and Switzerland (DACH) that have the most catching up to do.”

The same is true of industrial artificial intelligence, which is the focus of the survey. 94% of the Chinese companies interviewed are already using AI solutions in their manufacturing processes; This figure is more than double that of American companies (which are close behind at 46%). The figure in the UK is 29 per cent, while in the Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) region it is only 20 per cent. The differences in industrial AI are particularly notable because when asked about the impact of AI on manufacturing processes in the coming years, about 6 percent of respondents said it would have a “very important impact,” 22 percent said it would have a “great impact,” 32 percent said it would have a “certain impact,” and 27 percent said it would have a “slight impact.”