Industry X changes how companies make things and the very things they make

Industry X is about creating new products that are cloud-connected and delivering new services through platforms that customers love. 

Companies embracing the Industry X concept use intelligence to make more informed manufacturing and operating decisions that empower them to do more with less, drive savings and keep people safe.

Intelligence is the X

With intelligence embedded across the value chain, the opportunities are endless. Take the ability to deliver customer experiences tailored to individual customers that scale globally. Renault Group accelerated its path to digital by delivering deeply connected customer interactions. The company’s mobile app offers customized customer experiences that enable them to contact auto dealers, pinpoint where they parked their cars and more. The tool also helped Renault extend its social media reach and customer base while amplifying its industry impact.  

Another example of the power of Industry X is digital twins, which are digital representations of objects, systems or processes. Using twins for testing can do more than just test one piece of a larger process. When done right, they help boost efficiencies, speed up development, deliver better product design options and generate new revenue streams. 

Intelligence also is transforming the future of product design, engineering, production, operations and servicing—and it’s even helping to address global warming.

For instance, Climeworks is charging ahead with digital plant solutions to improve and expand its global carbon dioxide air capture operations. Leveraging Industry X engineering knowledge, the Swiss eco-tech firm recently rolled out data-driven digital innovations to massively scale and optimize the world’s first commercial carbon removal technology. The company can now better control its plants in the field, refine operations and maintenance—and, ultimately, remove even more emissions faster.

Here’s more on these digital innovations that can be used on the production floor:

• Embedded intelligence: Pairing with artificial intelligence, embedded intelligence works with analytics and machine learning to optimize software processes and produce data to help companies be more productive.
• Digital thread and twins: Companies are continuously challenged to create a single data source—true digital threads across all operations. With virtual digital twin replicas of real-life ops, they can design, monitor, analyze and simulate properties and performance, and fuel growth without incurring added costs.
• Sustainability: The world can no longer unsustainably manufacture products. By digitizing entire product and operating value chains, leaders can launch sustainable and cost-effective solutions. 

Industry X ignites change

Industry X champions digital transformation by focusing on intelligent products and platforms and digital manufacturing and operations. The power of software makes smart products smarter and positions digital transformation at the core of manufacturing.

Ultimately, the goal is to get products customers will love to market globally, faster and cheaper. That’s where the following innovations come in, accelerating and optimizing digital product and service transformation end to end:

• Digital industrial workforce: Using technology to keep workers safe and helping them to do their jobs better
• Smart-connected product design and development: Designing, launching and enhancing exceptionally personalized products
• Product-as-a-service enablement: Using products to deliver new services and provide cloud-enabled product support

Making the products of tomorrow is all about digitizing entire production operations today—at scale, on time and within budget. This is the future of manufacturing. Explore our latest Industry X insights to find out more.