The ARC Advisory Group's Industry Leadership Forum 2025 highlighted significant advancements in Industrial AI, showcasing end user success stories and emphasizing the importance of diverse data types and specialized AI tools.

Escalating connectivity requirements, including rising use of mobile, remote, and autonomous assets, is fueling the need for reliable wireless connectivity. Industrial WLAN capabilities continue to increase with each successive standard, making the technology increasingly suitable for an expanded range of industrial applications.

ARC Advisory Group’s Global Forums serve as vital gatherings for leaders, technologists, and industry experts to meet, collaborate, and discuss the cutting-edge developments shaping the future of manufacturing, supply chain, automation, and more.

The 2025 ARC Industry Forum remained focused on the end user community, with close to 60 end user speakers and presenters sharing how they are applying enabling technologies like Industrial AI, digital twins, and industrial data fabrics to solve key business challenges such as sustainability, cyber resilience, supply chain resilience, and reduced risk.

To provide our Advisory Service clients with holistic coverage of the various industrial and automation markets we cover, ARC Advisory Group publishes indices of revenues from automation and machinery companies as well as indices of revenues and CapEx from end user industries on a quarterly basis. This Special Report is concise and focuses more on the quantitative than the qualitative aspects of the automation, end user, and machinery industrial markets. 

The rise of plastic circularity, driven by more stringent policies, is boosting demand for advanced solutions, opening new opportunities for automation companies to innovate in product design, plant optimization and green value chain.

AI affects many aspects of industrial cybersecurity, from AI embedded in supplier offerings to the need to keep AI models secure that are implemented by end users.

This Insight highlights the energy transition and the close relationship between AC and DC power. There is a need for efficient conversion to and from AC and DC and several factors are fueling this conversion.

Manufacturers and processors are all making progress on their digital transformation journeys, deploying smart manufacturing technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Edge, Cloud, Digital Twin, IT/OT/ET convergence, etc. In spite of that, operational challenges caused by geopolitics, tariffs, and increasing weather events, such as hurricanes, floods, tornados, etc. due to climate change, drive manufacturers and processors to leverage tools to ensure the resilience of their operations, especially the integrity of their supply chains.

The 75th NAMUR General Meeting brought together industry leaders and experts. The topics, presentations, and discussions reinforced the organization’s role as a driving force in shaping global automation standards for the process industries.