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Industrial Manufacturing Industry Statistics

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01 Industry overview

The industrial manufacturing industry at a glance

Industrial manufacturing is a roughly $16 trillion global sector undergoing rapid automation and portfolio change, while global manufacturing production grew 3.8% in 2025 and China accounted for 32.0% of global manufacturing production in 2024.

$16T[5]
Sector value, 2026
3.8%[20]
Global production growth, 2025
32.0%[83]
China production share, 2024
12.8M[90]
U.S. manufacturing employees, 2024
Market size
PwC describes industrial manufacturing as a US$16 trillion global sector in 2026. A narrower infrastructure-linked definition recorded US$472 billion in annual spending in 2024, showing that reported market size depends heavily on scope.[5][91]
Forecast & CAGR
Global industrial manufacturing is forecast to undergo major technology-led expansion through 2030, with PwC reporting that future-fit manufacturers expect automation levels to rise from a median of 29% today to 65% by 2030. In the industrial-technology segment, machinery and components are forecast to grow at 3.3% annually through 2030, while industrial automation is forecast at 12.5%.[5][66]
Market share & regions
China represented 32.0% of global manufacturing production in 2024, ahead of the United States at 15.0%, Japan at 6.3%, Germany at 4.6%, and South Korea at 3.3%. Asia accounted for 81.1% of industry value added attributable to manufacturing in 2024, compared with 82.8% in Europe and 75.1% in Northern America.[83]
Segmentation
Industrial manufacturing spans machinery and components, industrial automation, building technologies, and off-highway mobile machinery. BCG estimates global revenue of about $2.0 trillion for machinery and components, $1.3 trillion for industrial automation, and $900 billion for building technologies.[66]
Key players & concentration
Manufacturing production is highly concentrated geographically: China, the United States, Japan, Germany, and South Korea together accounted for 61.2% of global manufacturing production in 2024. China alone exceeded the combined share of the next four economies.[83]
Pricing
U.S. producer prices for final-demand goods rose 2.6% in September 2026, while industrial chemicals increased 0.9% month over month and steel mill products increased 2.2%. The data indicate continued input-cost volatility across industrial supply chains.[34]
Trends, drivers & challenges
UNIDO reported global manufacturing growth of 2.9% in 2024 and approximately 4% across major country groups in 2025. Growth is being supported by automation, AI, infrastructure renewal, defense demand, and data-center investment, while tariffs, geopolitical risk, supply-chain bottlenecks, skilled-labor shortages, and uneven regional demand remain constraints.[20][5]
Consumer behavior & competition
Industrial manufacturers are increasingly competing through integrated products, software, aftermarket services, and ecosystem partnerships rather than standalone equipment. PwC found that 53% of industrial manufacturers rate ecosystems as a growth strategy and expect 44% of revenue to come from outside traditional industrial and consumer products by 2030.[5]
M&A
Global industrial manufacturing M&A transaction volume fell 12.5% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, to 203 deals from 232 in the same quarter of 2025. Add-on acquisitions continued to represent the majority of private-equity industrial-manufacturing activity.[92]
Regulation
The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism entered its definitive regime on January 1, 2026. Importers of covered cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity, and hydrogen above the 50-tonne threshold must seek authorised-declarant status, report embedded emissions, and surrender certificates.[93]
Latest news
UNIDO’s latest quarterly report found global manufacturing production increased 1.5% in the second quarter of 2026, with growth continuing despite tariff escalation, inflationary pressure, supply-chain bottlenecks, and regional conflicts. The report covers approximately 135 economies representing 98.6% of global manufacturing value added.[20]
report visual · Projection

EU manufacturing production volume index

EU manufacturing production volume index grew from 139 index (1995=100) in 2018 to 144 index (1995=100) in 2023.

139
Start
+0.71%
CAGR · 5y
144
Projected
20182023
source-verifiedec.europa.eu2023

02 Ranking

Top 10 Companies in the Industrial Manufacturing Industry

The leading companies in the industrial manufacturing industry, ranked on market impact, performance, momentum, innovation and brand popularity.

Updated November 10, 2026 · Next review December 10, 2026

Verdict

Eaton leads Gitnux's 2026 industrial manufacturing ranking with an Overall score of 9.6, with revenue growth 10%. Schneider Electric is the highest-ranked electrification and automation technology supplier at 9.5, backed by operating margin 18.7%.

Ranked by Overall score · How we score ↓

Editor's top 3 picks

Where to start, by need.

  1. #1 Overall · #1 overall

    Eaton

    IE

    Ranked #1 · 9.6 · Electrical, aerospace and industrial equipment

    Why we picked it: Its electrical, aerospace, vehicle, and power-management equipment aligns with electrification and industrial equipment demand.

    See in ranking ↓Visit eaton.com ↗

  2. Leader in electrification and automation

    Schneider Electric

    FR

    Ranked #2 · 9.5 · Electrification and automation

    Why we picked it: Electrification, automation, and energy-management technologies map to industrial electrification and automation spending.

    See in ranking ↓Visit se.com ↗

  3. Leader in power generation and grid equipment

    GE Vernova

    US

    Ranked #4 · 9.4 · Power generation and grid equipment

    Why we picked it: Power-generation, wind, grid, and electrification equipment ties directly to grid and generation modernization.

    See in ranking ↓Visit gevernova.com ↗

Pick 1 is the #1 company overall. Picks 2 and 3 are the highest-ranked companies in the top 5 that add a new segment.

Full ranking

Sort by
Top 10 companies in the industrial manufacturing industry, 2026 – Gitnux ranking
#CompanyOverall ↓Company snapshot
1

Eaton

Electrical, aerospace and industrial equipment · IE

9.6
2

Schneider Electric

Electrification and automation · FR

9.5
3

Siemens

Industrial automation, electrification and mobility · DE

9.4
4

GE Vernova

Power generation and grid equipment · US

9.4
5

Parker Hannifin

Motion and fluid control · US

9.0
6

ABB

Electrification, automation and industrial robotics · CH

8.9
7

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Energy, infrastructure and heavy machinery · JP

8.8
8

Komatsu

Construction, mining and industrial machinery · JP

8.8
9

Honeywell

Industrial automation, aerospace and building systems · US

8.6
10

3M

Advanced materials and industrial products · US

8.3

How we score

  • Impact (30%): scale and weight in the market (revenue, market share, employees, market position).
  • Performance (20%): recent revenue growth and operating margin; an analyst assessment where a company does not publish them.
  • Momentum (20%): growth trajectory and future potential.
  • Innovation (15%): R&D intensity and how technologically advanced the company is.

Popularity (brand search demand, 15%) counts toward Overall but is not published as a column. Overall leaves out what is not known.

Scale Scores are shown on a 7–10 scale with one decimal; bars start at 7.0.

Cadence Recalculated when new figures are published; next review December 10, 2026.

Independence. Rankings are editorially independent. Scores, ranks, picks and the verdict follow the method above; no company can pay to change them.

Cite this ranking

APA

Samuel Norberg. (2026, November 10). Top 10 companies in the industrial manufacturing industry. In Industrial Manufacturing Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/industrial-manufacturing-industry-statistics/#top-companies

04 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

AI adoption is broad: 77% of manufacturers implemented some form of AI in 2024. Industrial robot deployment also concentrates geographically, with China installing 276,288 in 2023.

AI in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 90% of manufacturers said AI was important to the future of the industry in 2024, across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.[1]
  • 31% of manufacturers identified production as a current AI application in 2024, across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.[1]
  • 60% of manufacturers cited training and upskilling as an AI challenge in 2024, across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.[1]
  • 77% of manufacturers had implemented some form of AI in 2024, across the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.[1]
  • 10.6% of EU manufacturing enterprises with at least 10 employees used AI in 2024, up from 7% in 2021.[2]
  • 24.3% of EU manufacturing enterprises using AI applied it to information and communication technology security in 2024.[2]

Automation in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 128,899 industrial robots were installed in electronics manufacturing worldwide in 2024.[3]
  • 46,106 industrial robots were installed in Japan in 2023.[3]
  • 276,288 industrial robots were installed in China in 2023, equal to 51% of global installations.[3]
  • 295 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees was the United States’ robot density in 2023.[3]
  • 70% of newly deployed industrial robots were installed in Asia in 2023.[3]
  • 1,012 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees was South Korea’s robot density in 2023.[3]

Digital Transformation in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 34% of industrial-manufacturing organizations across 26 countries had achieved return on investment from multiple AI use cases in 2024.[4]
  • 76% of industrial-manufacturing firms across 26 countries reported that their workforce had an appetite to embrace cutting-edge technology in 2024.[4]
  • 32% of U.S. industrial-products respondents said their operations-technology investments had delivered expected results in 2024.[5]
  • 24% of companies across the European Industrial Ecosystem had a concrete digital-transformation strategy in 2024.[6]

Technology Adoption in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 30% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing edge-computing strategies in 2024.[7]
  • 37% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing AI and automation strategies in 2024.[7]
  • 35% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing data-and-analytics strategies in 2024.[7]
  • 31% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing modern-delivery technologies, including low-code and no-code, in 2024.[7]

Cloud Computing in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 87% of Finnish manufacturing enterprises used cloud computing in 2023.[2]
  • 87% of Australian manufacturing enterprises used cloud computing in 2022.[2]
  • 39% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing XaaS technologies, including public and multicloud, in 2024.[7]
  • 54% of EU manufacturing enterprises used paid cloud-computing services in 2025, up from approximately 45% in 2023.[8]

Big Data in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 67% of manufacturers surveyed in the United States, Germany and Malaysia could collect and analyze data in near real time in 2024.[9]
  • 28% of manufacturing survey respondents were implementing big-data processing in 2024, up 7 percentage points from 2023, according to an Auburn University study of 97 participants.[10]
  • 44% of manufacturing leaders reported that the amount of data their organizations collected had at least doubled over the previous two years in 2024.[11]
  • 70% of manufacturers still collected data manually in 2024, according to a Manufacturing Leadership Council survey reported by the National Association of Manufacturers.[12]
  • 33% of manufacturers surveyed were performing prescriptive analytics in 2024, according to ABI Research’s survey of 461 manufacturing decision makers.[9]
  • 60% of manufacturers surveyed could collect and normalize data from assets or equipment in 2024, across 461 decision makers in the United States, Germany and Malaysia.[9]

05 Statistics

Data & Analytics

Data quality and governance act as constraints on adoption: 44% of manufacturers reported AI project failures due to poor data quality in 2025. Real-time collection is partial, with 56% collecting at least half in 2024.

Business intelligence in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 24% of manufacturers used external artificial-intelligence partners to analyze manufacturing data in 2025.[13]
  • 63% of manufacturers reported having data or business-intelligence analyst roles in 2025.[13]
  • 38% of manufacturers used cloud analytics to analyze manufacturing data in 2025.[13]
  • 63% of manufacturers used statistical-analysis programs or standard business-intelligence systems to analyze manufacturing data in 2025.[13]
  • 22% of manufacturers used cloud artificial-intelligence systems to analyze manufacturing data in 2025.[13]
  • 16% of manufacturers used external analytics partners to analyze manufacturing data in 2025.[13]

Data analytics in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 44% of manufacturing leaders reported that the amount of data collected had at least doubled compared with two years earlier in 2024.[12]
  • 21% of United States manufacturers used data analytics in the 2023 technology-use survey.[14]
  • 57% of manufacturers used artificial intelligence to analyze collected data in 2024.[13]
  • 68% of manufacturers used spreadsheets to analyze at least some collected manufacturing data in 2024.[13]
  • 63% of manufacturing businesses in the European industrial ecosystem had adopted artificial intelligence within the previous three years, according to the 2024 survey.[6]
  • 56% of manufacturers collected at least half of their manufacturing data in real time or near real time in 2024.[13]

Data Quality in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 44% of manufacturers surveyed reported that AI projects had failed because of poor data quality in 2025.[15]
  • 51% of manufacturers surveyed said their data was siloed across disparate tools and systems in 2025.[15]
  • 54% of manufacturers surveyed had duplicate data in several systems in 2025.[15]
  • 41% of manufacturers surveyed distrusted the data used for supply-chain operations in 2025.[15]
  • 30% of manufacturers identified poor data quality as a technical barrier to improving processes in 2025.[16]
  • 61% of manufacturing leaders agreed that poor data quality limited adoption and optimization of emerging technologies in 2025.[16]

Data Governance in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 22% of manufacturers surveyed included data collection, management or analysis in executive incentives, KPIs or business imperatives in 2024.[13]
  • 61% of manufacturers surveyed had a corporate-wide governance plan, strategy or formal data-management guidelines in 2024.[13]
  • 58% of manufacturers surveyed assigned primary data-governance responsibility to a C-suite or senior leader in 2024.[13]
  • 15% of manufacturers surveyed said their data strategy was entirely aligned with their overall business strategy in 2024.[13]

KPIs in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 11 of the 13 most common line-level KPIs in manufacturing were production metrics.[17]
  • 68% of industrial organizations were implementing or had implemented quality-control initiatives in the fourth quarter of 2024.[18]
  • 88% of manufacturing companies tracked net-promoter score at the business-unit level, making it the leading business-unit KPI.[17]
  • 5 or 6 KPI highlights were typically shared with manufacturing company boards.[17]
  • 59% of industrial organizations were implementing or had implemented predictive-maintenance initiatives in the fourth quarter of 2024.[18]
  • 59% of industrial organizations were implementing or had implemented process-optimization or waste-reduction initiatives in the fourth quarter of 2024.[18]

06 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

Automation targets are moving quickly: 50% of industrial manufacturers are expected to have highly automated processes by 2030. Smart manufacturing also links to measured output gains of 10%–20%.

Growth in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 84% of organizations plan to invest in advanced manufacturing technologies to reduce costs.[19]
  • 4% was cumulative 2025 growth in global machinery manufacturing output.[20]
  • 62% of organizations are upgrading manufacturing facilities to make them smart and technology-enabled.[19]
  • 50% of industrial manufacturers are expected to have highly automated processes by 2030, up from 18% in the survey baseline.[5]
  • 93% of manufacturers agree that smart manufacturing will transform how products are made.[21]
  • 0.4% was global manufacturing output growth in December 2025 compared with the previous month.[20]

Differentiation in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 46% of future-fit industrial manufacturers use advanced technology in product design and development, compared with 34% of other manufacturers.[5]
  • 59% of consumer-product manufacturers say domestic manufacturing in strategic industries is imperative for national security.[19]
  • 37% of future-fit industrial manufacturers use advanced technology in production and operations, compared with 28% of other manufacturers.[5]
  • 7%–20% is the average reported improvement in employee productivity after smart-manufacturing implementation.[21]
  • 74% of future-fit industrial manufacturers say their workforce is empowered to act on new ideas, compared with 59% of other manufacturers.[5]
  • 10%–20% is the average reported improvement in production output after manufacturers implement smart manufacturing.[21]

Mergers and acquisitions in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 2,091 North American industrials-and-chemicals transactions were recorded in 2025, 1% fewer than in 2024.[22]
  • Four North American industrials-and-chemicals megadeals valued above $10 billion were completed in 2025.[22]
  • 145.7% was the year-over-year increase in U.S. industrial-manufacturing deal value in the second quarter of 2026.[4]
  • 41% of global industrials-and-chemicals deal volume came from North America in 2025.[22]
  • 49% was the year-over-year increase in virtual-data-room usage for North American industrial transactions in the first half of 2025.[23]
  • 155 industrial-manufacturing convergence deals worth $532 billion were recorded from 2021 through 2025.[5]

Strategic partnerships in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 55% of organizations with a reindustrialization strategy use co-innovation and research-and-development partnerships with China.[19]
  • 47.3% of Japanese manufacturing companies reported collaboration with universities, the largest partner category in JETRO’s 2024 survey.[24]
  • 6% of surveyed manufacturers are not forming or planning any workforce-related alliances or partnerships.[25]
  • 73% of surveyed manufacturers partner with technical colleges to improve workforce attraction and retention.[25]
  • 48% of surveyed manufacturers partner with universities to improve workforce attraction and retention.[25]
  • 55% of organizations with a reindustrialization strategy use joint ventures with China.[19]

07 Statistics

People & Workforce

Labor tightness persists while training continues: 47.6 hours of training on average for new U.S. manufacturing employees in 2026. Employee costs also remain a pressure point, with 23% reporting $20,000 to $30,000 replacement costs.

Hiring in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 200,000 people worked in U.S. semiconductor device manufacturing in 2023.[26]
  • 100,000 people worked in U.S. semiconductor design in 2023.[26]
  • 2.4 million manufacturing workers could be lacking in the United States by 2028.[27]
  • 157,000 full-time workers could be missing from the U.S. semiconductor industry by 2030.[28]
  • 9,000 people worked in U.S. electronic-design-automation activities in 2023.[26]

Employee retention in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 30% was the average absenteeism rate among 413 global manufacturing plants surveyed in 2024.[29]
  • 23% of manufacturers reported employee replacement costs of $20,000 to $30,000.[30]
  • 40% of manufacturers said retention challenges had not improved since 2024.[17]
  • 60% of surveyed manufacturers estimated employee replacement costs at $10,000 to $40,000.[30]
  • 65% of manufacturers cited difficulty attracting and retaining workers as a top challenge in the first quarter of 2024.[31]

Remote Work in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. manufacturing, 19% of workers worked remotely, including hybrid and fully remote arrangements, during October 2023–September 2024.[32]
  • Across U.S. manufacturing, 35.2% of surveyed workers reported remote work in the Chicago Fed Survey of Economic Conditions from July 2021 through March 2024.[33]
  • Across U.S. manufacturing, teleworked hours represented 12.2% of total hours worked in 2025.[34]
  • Across U.S. manufacturing, 36.9% of workers could work at home and 33.3% actually did so during 2024–2025.[34]

Hybrid Work in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across manufacturing companies, 17% were fully back in the office for non-production employees in 2025.[17]
  • Across manufacturing employers, 67% identified productivity as a key factor driving pressure to return to the office in 2025.[35]
  • Across manufacturing employers, 80% said their organizations were still struggling to balance hybrid working in 2025.[35]
  • Across manufacturing companies, the average required office attendance reached 2.82 days per week in the second quarter of 2025.[17]
  • Across manufacturing employees, 80% believed office mandates reflected a lack of trust that employees would be productive at home in 2025.[35]

Upskilling in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 875 applied research and development projects had been conducted through Manufacturing USA by 2026.[36]
  • 47.6 hours of training were provided on average to new U.S. manufacturing employees in 2026.[12]
  • 26.7 hours of training were provided on average to existing U.S. manufacturing employees in 2026.[12]
  • 90% of participants in Indiana's manufacturing apprenticeship program were people of color.[27]
  • $394 million in industry, academic and government investment was catalyzed by $134 million in federal Manufacturing USA baseline funding.[36]

Employee Engagement in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across manufacturing, distribution and storage organizations, 84.2% of employees said they cared about their organization’s future in 2026.[37]
  • Across manufacturing companies, 48% of respondents said most frontline workers were engaged in their jobs in 2023.[5]
  • Across manufacturing companies, 41% identified employee recognition as a high priority in 2024.[38]
  • Across manufacturing companies, 25% of respondents did not know whether their frontline workforce was engaged in 2023.[5]
  • Across manufacturing, distribution and storage organizations, the average employee-engagement score was 72.9% in 2026.[37]

DEI in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 13% of the U.S. semiconductor workforce was Hispanic in 2019.[26]

08 Statistics

Customer & Sales

Automation reaches customer operations: 33.2% of manufacturers reported customer-retention processes mostly or entirely automated in 2025. Aftermarket and service metrics also track uptime as a service.

Customer experience in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 63% of manufacturing service teams increased their focus on understanding customers’ full histories during the 12–18 months preceding the 2025 survey.[39]
  • 7,200-plus customer responses contributed to the 2024 Advanced Manufacturing Customer Experience benchmark covering 16 large B2B companies.[40]
  • 78% of surveyed industrial manufacturing and construction companies had started their digital-transformation journeys in Deloitte’s 2019 comparison data.[21]
  • 98% of surveyed industrial manufacturing and construction companies had started their digital-transformation journeys in Deloitte’s 2024 survey.[21]
  • 95% of high-performing manufacturing service teams used customer-oriented key performance indicators, compared with 51% of underperforming teams, in the 2025 Salesforce research.[39]

Customer retention in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 33.2% of manufacturers reported that customer-retention processes were mostly or entirely automated in the 2025 Manufacturing Pulse Survey.[41]
  • 75% of manufacturers tracked customer-retention rates in the Salesforce manufacturing survey summarized in 2024.[42]
  • 75% of manufacturers tracked product uptime as a service and aftermarket metric in the Salesforce manufacturing survey summarized in 2024.[42]
  • 42% of manufacturers that tracked customer-service resolution time exceeded their goals in the Salesforce manufacturing survey summarized in 2024.[42]
  • 71% of manufacturing service teams increased their focus on consistent cross-channel experiences during the 12–18 months preceding the 2025 survey.[39]

Customer acquisition in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 82% of industrial manufacturers rated in-person events, conferences and trade shows as important for customer acquisition in Adobe’s global study.[43]
  • 78% of industrial manufacturers rated partner and channel marketing as important for customer acquisition in Adobe’s global study.[43]
  • 78% of industrial manufacturers rated referrals as important for customer acquisition in Adobe’s global study.[43]
  • 65% of industrial manufacturers rated partner and channel marketing as effective for customer acquisition in Adobe’s global study.[43]
  • 55% of industrial manufacturers rated in-person events, conferences and trade shows as effective for customer acquisition in Adobe’s global study.[43]

Customer loyalty in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 78% of industrial manufacturers rated referrals as important for customer acquisition and relationship building in Adobe’s global study.[43]
  • 39% of manufacturers that tracked aftermarket service and sales revenue exceeded their goals in the Salesforce manufacturing survey summarized in 2024.[42]
  • 95% of high-performing manufacturing service teams used customer-oriented KPIs, compared with 51% of underperformers, in Salesforce’s 2025 research.[39]
  • 43% of manufacturers that tracked cost to serve exceeded their goals in the Salesforce manufacturing survey summarized in 2024.[42]
  • 63% of manufacturing service teams increased their focus on personalizing service interactions during the 12–18 months preceding Salesforce’s 2025 survey.[39]

Lead generation in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • Manufacturing email campaigns had a 4.22% average click rate according to the manufacturing marketing statistics compiled by Lead Forensics.[44]
  • 69% of manufacturers generated sales-qualified leads through organic search traffic in the 2022 IndustrialSage survey.[45]
  • 34% of manufacturers generated sales-qualified leads through blogs in the 2022 IndustrialSage survey.[45]
  • Manufacturing marketers that tracked marketing-qualified leads or researched their ideal customer profile used about ten lead-generation tactics on average in the 2026 Considered Content study.[46]
  • 37% of manufacturers generated sales-qualified leads through webinars in the 2022 IndustrialSage survey.[45]

09 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

Buyer-relevant demand generation remains event and channel driven, with 82% rating in-person events as important for customer acquisition. Execution gaps show up in 38% citing insufficient execution as an agency frustration.

Marketing in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 42% of B2B manufacturing marketing leaders invest heavily in organic search, according to a 2026 survey of 211 leaders.[47]
  • 28% of B2B manufacturing marketing leaders manage differentiation strategy internally, according to a 2026 survey.[47]
  • 36% of B2B manufacturing marketing leaders manage channel strategy in-house, according to a 2026 survey of 211 leaders.[47]
  • 66% of B2B manufacturing marketing leaders invest heavily in email, according to a 2026 survey of 211 leaders.[47]
  • 38% of B2B manufacturing marketing leaders say insufficient execution is their top agency frustration, according to a 2026 survey.[47]

Digital marketing in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 10% of surveyed technical professionals work in manufacturing staff roles, according to the 2025 State of Marketing to Engineers study.[48]
  • 14% of manufacturers run digital advertisements on platforms that cannot adequately support them, according to an audit of manufacturer websites and marketing activity.[47]
  • 89% of technical buyers plan to attend at least one in-person industry event, according to research on manufacturing and industrial buyers.[49]
  • 82% of surveyed technical professionals work in engineering or research and development, according to the 2025 State of Marketing to Engineers study.[48]
  • 16% of B2B manufacturing marketing leaders express confidence in both strategy and execution, according to a 2026 survey.[47]

Branding in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 16% was the average five-year ROIC of industrial companies in the top visibility quartile, according to McKinsey research.[50]
  • 5% of industrial companies participate in more than six microverticals, according to McKinsey’s industrial brand analysis.[50]
  • 5%–10% price premiums are available to top industrial brands with greater public attention, according to McKinsey research.[50]
  • More than 5,300 industrial brands were included in McKinsey’s analysis of industrial brand visibility and performance.[50]
  • 30% higher ROIC was achieved by top-quartile industrial companies than by bottom-quartile companies in McKinsey’s brand-visibility analysis.[50]

Social media in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 21.02% of manufacturers with more than $100 million in revenue have no social-media presence, according to Winbound’s company-size breakout.[51]
  • 77.07% of manufacturers with more than $100 million in revenue actively use social media, according to Winbound’s company-size breakout.[51]
  • 51.4% of manufacturers actively use social media, defined as publishing at least twice per month on at least one channel.[51]
  • 39.5% of manufacturers do not use social media at all, according to Winbound’s 2023 benchmark study.[51]
  • 29.74% of manufacturers with less than $25 million in revenue actively use social media, according to Winbound’s company-size breakout.[51]

Influencer Marketing in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across B2B companies, 43% of marketers planned to increase influencer investment in the following year in 2025; global survey scope.[52]
  • Across B2B companies, 29% of marketers planned to adopt influencer marketing within the following year in 2025; global survey scope.[52]
  • Among manufacturing marketers using paid channels, 19% used influencer marketing in the 12 months covered by the 2025 outlook survey; global manufacturing, survey conducted June–August 2024.[53]
  • Across B2B companies, 28% ranked thought leaders or industry analysts as the most effective influencer type in 2025; global survey scope.[52]
  • Across B2B companies, 55% of marketers used influencers in 2025, providing a benchmark applicable to industrial manufacturing marketers.[52]

10 Statistics

Operations & Execution

Operational reliability varies, with 37% of MPI-surveyed plants reporting average equipment mean time between failures of 24 hours or less. Capacity utilization was 74.8% in U.S. manufacturing in 2024.

Process optimization in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 41% of Eaton’s 250 industrial respondents were continuous-process manufacturers in its eight-country digital-transformation survey.[54]
  • 69% was the average production volume as a percentage of capacity reported by manufacturers in the MPI 2024 Manufacturing Study.[29]
  • 12 of 21 U.S. three-digit manufacturing industries recorded labor-productivity declines in 2024.[34]
  • 7.2% was the 2024 labor-productivity decline in U.S. nonmetallic-mineral-products manufacturing, the largest decline among three-digit manufacturing industries.[34]
  • 2.2% was the 2024 labor-productivity increase in U.S. computer and electronic-products manufacturing, which also recorded 0.1% output growth.[34]

Operational efficiency in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 21.2% was the 2024 decline in hours worked in U.S. electric-lighting-equipment manufacturing, the largest decline among manufacturing industries.[34]
  • 50 of 86 U.S. four-digit manufacturing industries recorded decreases in hours worked in 2024.[34]
  • 68% of manufacturers surveyed by MPI said filling frontline production roles was somewhat difficult, very difficult or impossible.[29]
  • 37% of MPI-surveyed manufacturing plants reported average equipment mean time between failures of 24 hours or less.[29]
  • 74.8% was U.S. manufacturing capacity utilization in 2024.[55]

Quality management in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 33 of 89 production aspects reviewed by the FAA at Boeing’s Renton, Washington, plant were reported as failing in a 2024 audit.[28]
  • 55,883 sites were covered by valid ISO 50001:2018 certificates worldwide in 2022.[56]
  • 1,666,172 sites were covered by valid ISO 9001:2015 certificates worldwide in 2022.[56]
  • 40,449 sites were covered by valid ISO 13485:2016 certificates worldwide in 2022.[56]
  • 29,741 valid ISO 13485:2016 certificates were recorded worldwide in 2022 for medical-device quality-management systems.[56]

Supply chain in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • $173.0 billion was the 2022 value added by U.S. transportation and warehousing in the domestic manufacturing supply chain.[57]
  • $305.3 billion was the 2022 value added by oil and gas extraction in the U.S. process-manufacturing supply chain.[57]
  • $356.9 billion was the 2022 value added by U.S. professional and business services in the domestic manufacturing supply chain.[57]
  • $2,424.5 billion was the 2022 value added by U.S. manufacturing within its domestic manufacturing supply chain, representing 55.1% of the total.[57]
  • $185.2 billion was the 2022 value added by petroleum and coal products in the U.S. process-manufacturing supply chain.[57]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across global manufacturing, 37% of facilities were offshore in 2024, compared with 41% onshore and 22% nearshore.[19]
  • Across global manufacturing, 56% of executives in 2025 said their organization had invested in nearshoring or a combination of reshoring and nearshoring.[19]
  • Across EU enterprises engaged in international sourcing during 2021–2023, 37% operated in manufacturing, the largest sector share among sourcing enterprises.[8]
  • Across global manufacturing, 73% of executives in 2025 believed friendshoring would represent a significant share of future sourcing and production.[19]
  • Across EU enterprises sourcing abroad during 2021–2023, 39% outsourced business functions to external providers, while 72% used affiliated enterprises abroad for insourcing.[8]

11 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

Input-cost volatility appears in producer-price moves, including 2.6% for final-demand goods in September 2026. Price response pressures persist, with manufacturing firms showing 4.7 elasticity to input prices.

Pricing strategy in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 44% of large U.S. businesses had already increased prices because of tariffs by September 2025.[58]
  • More than 40% of industrial companies saw margins shrink even after raising prices in 2025.[59]
  • Manufacturing firms had an estimated price-response elasticity of 4.7 to input prices in the IMF analysis.[60]
  • 21% of industrial companies targeted price increases above 6% for 2025, while 34% targeted increases of 3% or less.[61]
  • The average planned 2026 price increase was 7% for top-quartile industrial companies, compared with planned increases ranging from 1% to 5% for the other quartiles.[61]

Cost reduction in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 98% of surveyed manufacturers had started digital transformation by 2023, with cost optimization and operational efficiency among the principal objectives.[21]
  • 50% of companies cited organizational-structure design as a leading transformation lever for cost reduction.[21]
  • 48% of companies cited data and artificial-intelligence strategies as a leading transformation lever for cost reduction.[21]
  • Manufacturers reported average employee-productivity improvements of 7% to 20% after implementing smart manufacturing initiatives.[21]
  • 80% of manufacturing executives planned to allocate at least 20% of improvement budgets to smart manufacturing in 2025.[21]

Profitability in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 52.4% of manufacturing companies in Central and Eastern Europe forecast an operating profit for 2024.[24]
  • 63.7% of manufacturing companies in Western Europe forecast an operating profit for 2024.[24]
  • U.S. manufacturing employment declined from 12.76 million workers in January 2025 to 12.72 million in August 2025.[21]
  • The manufacturing producer-price index for intermediate materials and components rose from 234.3 in November 2024 to 241.8 in July 2025.[21]
  • U.S. manufacturing construction spending fell from $236 billion in November 2024 to $223 billion in July 2025.[21]

Financial planning in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 93% of manufacturers agreed that smart manufacturing would transform how products are made in 2025.[21]
  • 62% of surveyed companies had moved beyond the planning phase on implementing cost reductions in May 2025.[5]
  • 80% of manufacturing executives planned to devote at least 20% of improvement budgets to smart manufacturing in 2025.[21]
  • 56% of manufacturers cited trade uncertainty as their top concern in the fourth quarter of 2024.[21]
  • Manufacturing technology investments accounted for 30% of operating budgets in 2024, up from 23% in 2023.[21]

12 Statistics

Product & Service

Service is increasingly measurable through performance tracking, including 75% tracking product uptime as a service and aftermarket metric in a Salesforce summary. Smart manufacturing is widely expected to transform production, with 93% agreeing in 2025.

Product development in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 81% of automotive organizations collected connected-vehicle telemetry for product-development feedback in 2026.[19]
  • 40% of automotive organizations had an automated pipeline linking vehicle data collection, insight generation, validation and deployment in 2026.[19]
  • 28% of organizations used or planned to use generative AI for product design or research and development in 2023.[62]
  • 45% of Ohio manufacturers launched a new product in 2025.[63]
  • 63% of Ohio manufacturers invested in innovation of existing products or services in 2025.[63]

Product lifecycle in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 49% of manufacturers ranked sustainability and energy efficiency as significant manufacturing technologies in 2025.[13]
  • 51% of manufacturers ranked manufacturing execution systems as a significant manufacturing technology in 2025.[13]
  • 43% of Indian manufacturers reported that technology had shortened the product-development lifecycle during fiscal years 2011–2015.[64]
  • 68 machine-and-plant-manufacturing companies participated in an industrial survey of control-software maintainability and evolvability.[65]
  • 47% of manufacturers ranked additive manufacturing as a significant manufacturing technology in 2025.[13]

After-sales in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • Top-performing industrial manufacturers generated approximately 20% earnings before interest and taxes from services.[66]
  • 32% of manufacturers felt very confident about withstanding future service-related supply-chain shocks in 2025.[67]
  • 37% of manufacturers tracked service-activity emissions in real time in 2025.[67]
  • 79% of manufacturers actively tracked emissions from service activities in 2025.[67]
  • 96% of manufacturers used some form of artificial intelligence in service delivery in 2025.[67]

Value proposition in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 30% of industrial-automation executives ranked price positioning as a product-value lever in 2024.[68]
  • 25% of industrial-automation executives ranked environmental or social impact as a product-value lever in 2024.[68]
  • 44% of industrial manufacturers’ total revenue is expected to come from outside traditional industrial and consumer products by 2030.[5]
  • 49% of manufacturers identified operational benefits as the primary value sought from smart manufacturing.[21]
  • 93% of manufacturers surveyed in 2025 said smart manufacturing would transform how products are made.[21]

13 Statistics

Sustainability & Ethics

Industrial sustainability requirements are quantifiable in energy and emissions intensity, including 20.95 GJ per tonne of crude steel in 2024. Ethics disclosure is uneven, with 39% of industrial companies disclosing corruption and bribery-case results.

Sustainability in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 20.95 GJ of energy were used per tonne of crude steel produced globally in 2024.[69]
  • Steel companies reported 6.77 training days per employee in 2024.[69]
  • 92.79% of solid steel-industry materials were converted into products and co-products in 2024.[69]
  • 96.08% of employees and contractors worked in environmentally registered steel-production facilities in 2024.[69]
  • Steel companies distributed economic value equivalent to 100.68% of revenue in 2024.[69]

ESG in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 242 industrial companies were tracked in the KnowESG industrials dataset in 2026.[70]
  • 117 of 242 tracked industrial companies had net-zero targets in 2026.[70]
  • 32% of surveyed manufacturers ranked reducing manufacturing waste as a leading sustainability or ESG-policy priority in 2024.[71]
  • 29% of surveyed manufacturers ranked carbon offsetting or carbon neutrality as a leading sustainability or ESG-policy priority in 2024.[71]
  • 33% of surveyed manufacturers ranked health and safety as a leading sustainability or ESG-policy priority in 2024.[71]

Ethics in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 61% of industrial companies did not disclose corruption and bribery-case results in the past fiscal year in the 2024 Corporate Sustainability Assessment.[72]
  • 88.07% of steel-industry employees received education on business ethics in 2024.[69]
  • 39% of industrial companies disclosed corruption and bribery-case results in the past fiscal year in the 2024 Corporate Sustainability Assessment.[72]
  • 79.72% of active input-material suppliers were assessed by steel companies in 2024.[69]

CSR in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 0.08% of steel-industry revenue was allocated to community investment in 2024.[69]
  • 11.44% of the steel-industry workforce were women in 2024.[69]
  • 14.06% of steel-industry board members were women in 2024.[69]

Circular economy in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 92.79% of solid materials in the global steel industry were converted into products and co-products in 2024.[69]
  • 0.8 billion tonnes of recycled material were fed into the EU economy in 2024, according to the material-flow balance.[8]
  • 12.2% was the European Union circular material-use rate in 2024.[8]

Carbon footprint in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 30% of United States primary energy-related CO2 emissions were linked to industrial-sector activity in 2022.[73]
  • 1.66 tonnes of CO2-equivalent were emitted per tonne of crude steel using the DRI-EAF route in 2024 after expanded GHG accounting.[69]
  • 2.66 tonnes of CO2-equivalent were emitted per tonne of crude steel using the BF-BOF route in 2024 after expanded GHG accounting.[69]
  • 0.69 tonnes of CO2 were emitted per tonne of crude steel using the scrap-EAF route in 2024.[69]
  • 60% of United States industrial CO2 emissions came from chemicals, refining, iron and steel, coal, food and beverage, and cement in 2022.[73]

15 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

Production and trade remain regionally anchored, with China at 32.0% of global manufacturing production in 2024 and the U.S. at 15.0%. Asia accounted for 81.1% of industry value added attributable to manufacturing in 2024.

Globalization in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • More than 60% of global manufacturing exports and imports were attributed to high-income industrial economies in 2024.[83]
  • $1.2 trillion in KTI manufacturing exports came from the United States in 2024.[84]
  • 77.6% was the estimated domestic value-added share of gross exports across 41 economies in 2024.[2]
  • 62.0% of global manufacturing exports were higher-technology goods in 2024.[83]
  • 17.3% of global GDP came from manufacturing exports in 2023.[83]

Cultural adaptation in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 14% of surveyed companies adapted products locally in the rest of Asia-Pacific in 2015.[85]
  • 54% of surveyed companies adapted products locally in the United States in 2015.[85]
  • More than 90% of surveyed businesses preferred products adapted to local language and market conditions in an eight-country study.[86]
  • 45.7% of Japanese manufacturing companies identified China as a promising overseas business destination in the FY2017 survey.[87]
  • 22% of surveyed companies adapted products locally in Central and Eastern Europe in 2015.[85]

Supplier management in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 49% of surveyed U.S. companies said tier-one supplier incidents stayed about the same in the prior 12 months.[88]
  • 19.4% of manufacturing firms reported full multi-tier supply chains including raw-material sources in 2025.[15]
  • 36% of U.S. companies ranked supply-chain agility among their top supplier-management goals in 2024.[88]
  • 29.2% of manufacturing firms reported an average supply chain of three tiers in 2025.[15]
  • 57% of U.S. companies ranked supply-chain cost reduction among their top supplier-management goals in 2024.[88]

Stakeholder management in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 34% of manufacturers described frontline-worker absenteeism as a significant or very significant challenge.[5]
  • 58% of manufacturers periodically surveyed frontline workers about employment engagement and culture.[5]
  • 75% of manufacturers said work-life balance was valued by their frontline workers.[5]
  • 86% of manufacturing leaders identified instilling purpose as an impactful way to create meaning for frontline workers.[5]
  • 78% of manufacturing leaders identified recognition as an impactful way to create meaning for frontline workers.[5]

Distribution channels in the industrial manufacturing industry

  • 61% of industrial-distribution respondents represented companies with annual revenue of $50 million or less in 2024.[89]
  • 33% of industrial distributors sold cutting tools in 2024.[89]
  • 32% of industrial distributors sold lubricants in 2024.[89]
  • 55% of industrial distributors sold to original-equipment-manufacturer customers in 2024.[89]
  • 54% of industrial distributors sold maintenance, repair and overhaul products in 2024.[89]

Key questions about the industrial manufacturing industry

What is the industrial manufacturing market size in 2026?
The sector value for 2026 is reported as $16T by PwC. A narrower infrastructure-linked definition recorded US$472 billion in annual spending in 2024.
How fast is industrial manufacturing production growing?
Global manufacturing production grew 3.8% in 2025. UNIDO also reported global manufacturing growth of 2.9% in 2024 and approximately 4% across major country groups in 2025.
Which companies lead the industrial manufacturing industry?
Eaton leads Gitnux's 2026 industrial manufacturing ranking with an Overall score of 9.6, with revenue growth 10%. Schneider Electric is the highest-ranked electrification and automation technology supplier at 9.5, backed by operating margin 18.7%.
What technology shifts are most emphasized for industrial manufacturing?
PwC reports future-fit manufacturers expect automation levels to rise from a median of 29% today to 65% by 2030. In 2024, 77% of manufacturers had implemented some form of AI.
How concentrated is manufacturing production across countries?
China, the United States, Japan, Germany, and South Korea together accounted for 61.2% of global manufacturing production in 2024. China alone exceeded the combined share of the next four economies.
Which compliance changes can affect operating costs in 2026?
The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism entered its definitive regime on January 1, 2026. Importers of covered cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity, and hydrogen above the 50-tonne threshold must seek authorised-declarant status and surrender certificates.
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