HFS Ranks Accenture the No. 1 Industry 4.0 Service Provider for the Second Time in a Row
NEW YORK; Sept. 7, 2022 – HFS Research (“HFS”) has named Accenture (NYSE: ACN) the total winner in its Top 10 Report 2022 for Industry 4.0 companies. The recognition follows Accenture’s prime place in the earlier HFS Industry 4.0 rating, revealed in 2019.
HFS defines Industry 4.0 as the rising impact automation and information alternate have on manufacturing applied sciences. It consists of cyber-physical methods, the web of issues, cloud computing, and synthetic intelligence.
The analysts assessed 14 suppliers throughout 4 classes for Industry 4.0 companies. Accenture got here out as the #1 supplier total, holding the prime spot in the execution, innovation and cross-functional collaboration (OneOfficeTM 1) classes and rating second in the voice of the buyer class.
According to the report, Accenture is a scaled service supplier with a consulting and innovation focus. Its digital engineering and manufacturing observe Industry X is the largest amongst the analyzed service suppliers in phrases of the variety of shoppers and assets.
Other differentiators are Accenture’s choices and options, equivalent to Digital Service Factory and Smart Connected Products and Platforms Hub, which offer worth propositions by means of a mixture of operational effectivity and the acceleration of latest income and business fashions.
“Accenture ranked #1 in our HFS Top 10: Industry 4.0 study due to its expertise in capabilities addressing the entire value chain of services, including strategy, implementation, and managed services,” stated Mayank Madhur, Associate Practice Leader.
“Our clients are reimagining their products and how to make them with data and digital technologies,” stated Sef Tuma, world lead for Engineering & Manufacturing, Industry X at Accenture. (*1*)
According to the report, COVID-19 was a wake-up name for corporations that had not applied digital engineering and manufacturing initiatives. It turned a key driver in serving to corporations survive the pandemic. When adopted successfully, the mixture of, for occasion, cloud and edge computing, analytics, and automation makes manufacturing extra productive, reduces its value, and helps get services to the market faster and personalize them for a giant variety of clients.
Accenture has been repeatedly constructing its digital engineering and manufacturing capabilities for the previous decade. Most not too long ago, it acquired Eclipse Automation, a supplier of personalized manufacturing automation and robotics options. Other current acquisitions and investments embrace worldwide engineering companies supplier umlaut, consulting capabilities for product lifecycle administration methods integration from DI Square, asset administration and efficiency specialists Advoco and T.A. Cook, and autonomous cell robots specialist Pollux.
A replica of the HFS report will be downloaded right here.
1 OneOfficeTM is HFS’ imaginative and prescient for actionable digital transformation. At its coronary heart is the core idea that rising applied sciences mixed with folks, course of, and information innovation can break down the silos that restrict our success, dissolving limitations between the back and front workplace.
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