As manufacturers face growing global pressures \u2014 from supply chain disruptions to climate imperatives and rapid technological change \u2014 transformation is no longer optional. This whitepaper presents insights from thousands of manufacturing companies across over 60 countries, revealing the key trends shaping the industry and the critical gap between strategic vision and operational execution.<\/p>\n
Discover how frameworks like the Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) are helping manufacturers close this gap, build resilience, and drive sustainable growth through digital transformation<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As manufacturers face growing global pressures \u2014 from supply chain disruptions to climate imperatives and rapid technological change \u2014 transformation is no longer optional. This whitepaper presents insights from thousands of manufacturing companies across over 60 countries, revealing the key trends shaping the industry and the critical gap between strategic vision and operational execution. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,22,37,47,35,14,15],"class_list":["post-37784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","tag-case-study","tag-digital-transformation","tag-global-manufacturing","tag-incit","tag-manufacturing","tag-siri","tag-smart-industry-readiness-index"],"acf":{"story_text":"White Paper June 2025","company_name":"International Centre for Industrial Transformation (INCIT)","company_profile":"The International Centre for Industrial Transformation (INCIT) is an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) institution which champions manufacturing transformation. As an independent non-profit entity, INCIT (pronounced as \u201cinsight\u201d) collaborates with both public and private sector manufacturing-related organisations to support industrial transformation, to enable global manufacturing to become more resilient and productive, and better positioned for future success.\r\n\r\nWe develop and deploy globally referenced frameworks, tools, concepts, training and certification programs for the international manufacturing community to raise awareness about the latest transformation developments and manufacturing trends, provide benchmarks that are international, publicly available and quantitative, and facilitate the sharing of learning points, challenges and best practices for industrial transformation.","product":"siri","industry":"General Manufacturing","short_description":"From ambition to action \u2014 see how SIRI is helping manufacturers worldwide close the digital transformation gap.","study_link":"https:\/\/heyzine.com\/flip-book\/e1c7742b08.html"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37784"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37849,"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37784\/revisions\/37849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/incit.org\/en_za\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}