Modernize Your Manufacturing Operations Using Connected Technologies

Lack of familiarity with the operational environment makes it harder to assess readiness, select pilot sites or understand where data and connectivity gaps exist.
Platform, protocol, and vendor choices are often made to address singular problems without considering strategic impact, future-proofing, interoperability, and cybersecurity. This results in significant challenges when IT needs to get involved in support functions.
Technology deployments happen in isolation without a step-by-step roadmap, or a cross-functional team aligned around a shared vision and execution plan. IT has to perform frequent 鈥淏and-Aid鈥� fixes when something goes wrong.

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Critical Insight

CIOs are uniquely positioned to translate operational needs into scalable, secure, and interoperable digital solutions. Without CIO leadership, connected tech initiatives risk becoming disconnected tech experiments.

Impact and Result

A detailed methodology to select the right use cases fit for current capabilities of the organization.

List of use cases, case studies, and a primer on connected technology architecture and components.

Modernize Your Manufacturing Operations Using Connected Technologies 91制片厂 & Tools

1. Modernize your manufacturing operations using connected technologies storyboard.

Manufacturers today face rising policy pressures, escalating costs, and a growing talent shortage. Business is demanding the convergence of physical and digital systems at a rapid pace, and CIOs are uniquely positioned to lead the charge in turning connected technologies into a competitive advantage. Info-Tech understands the critical role of CIOs and the need to rapidly identify and implement the right use cases for the organization. This research intends to provide a robust decision-making framework and a means to develop a practical and implementable roadmap.

2. Manufacturing modernization financial analysis tool

A comprehensive template for calculating ROI, NPV, IRR, and payback period for IT and OT modernization initiatives.

3. Manufacturing modernization use case selection tool

A tool that assesses your current state and recommends a list of relevant and prioritized use cases for implementation.

Take the right actions to advance the smart factory agenda.

About Info-Tech

91制片厂 is the world鈥檚 fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

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Guided Implementation 1: The case for connected technologies鈥�

Call 1: Understand prerequisite concepts 鈥� IT/OT convergence.鈥�
Call 2: Understand prerequisite concepts 鈥� OT visibility and cybersecurity.

Guided Implementation 2: Connected technology strategy鈥�

Call 1: Assess current capabilities.鈥�
Call 2: Understand the potential of connected technologies

Guided Implementation 3: Connected technology components鈥�

Call 1: Discuss organizational objectives.鈥婦iscuss organizational objectives.鈥�
Call 2: Conduct technology/ use case selection exercise.

Guided Implementation 4: Connected technology use cases鈥�

Call 1: Debrief session; gather program feedback.鈥�

Author

Shreyas Shukla

Contributors

Chas Hartwig, CEO, Hartwig Advisory Services LLC
James Slaby, Director, Acronis
Joshua Beil, Director, Acronis
Gary Reitz, Executive Counselor, 91制片厂
Donn Griffin, Executive Counselor, 91制片厂
Steve Schmidt, Senior Managing Partner, 91制片厂
2 Anonymous contributors

Search Code: 108316
Last Revised: August 27, 2025

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