North America Smart Manufacturing Market Size

North America Smart Manufacturing Market Analysis

The North America Smart Manufacturing Market size is estimated at USD 58.35 billion in 2024, and is expected to reach USD 80.40 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 6.62% during the forecast period (2024-2029).

The growing need for automation to attain efficiency and quality, the demand for adherence and government backing for digitization, and the proliferation of the IoT are some of the main driving factors influencing the market growth.

• North American manufacturers across every industry are creating the development foundation by rapidly improving their level of automation. While competing with global manufacturing hubs like Japan and China, North America has strived to create and adopt robotic and automation technologies. Therefore, to save energy and to gain cost-benefit, the trend of factory automation and industrial control systems is attaining traction in the region.
• The application of big data analytics in smart manufacturing aims to refine complicated processes, manage supply chains, and support new business models, like mass customization and product-as-a-service, which can be made possible by smart manufacturing apart from the traditional operational models like on-demand. Besides, big data analytics allows an enterprise to use smart manufacturing to shift from reactionary practices to predictive ones. This change targets improving the efficiency of the process and product performance, which in turn witnessed significant adoption in the region.
• However, The high costs of automated systems are concerned with effective and robust hardware and efficient software. Automation equipment requires high capital investment to invest in the smart factory (an automated system can cost millions of dollars to install, design, and fabricate). Also, the need for maintenance of automated machines is more than a manual system (even flexible automation is less flexible than humans, the most versatile machines of all). In addition to this, a series of significant cyber-attacks on manufacturing companies has highlighted the extreme and growing risks in the sector. The dependence on process control and systems, combined with the convergence of IT and operating technologies systems, has increasingly exposed manufacturing firms to cyber attacks.
• The regional automotive sector has always led the way in implementing robotics in its manufacturing processes. Other industry manufacturers, like John Deere, are also making significant investments to integrate automated technology into their products and processes. The regional manufacturing industry still needs to utilize these benefits fully. Hence, the region's automation adoption and product innovation scope is high.