The Connected Factory Report 2026
What the disconnect is costing UK manufacturers
Your production, energy and supply-chain data sit in systems that were never built to talk to each other. This report puts a number on what that gap costs, across five use cases, and shows what connecting the data changes. Written for the people who run the factory, not the vendors who sell to it.
What's inside
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- Energy cost per product, and why most manufacturers only see one site number a month.
- Unplanned downtime, running at around 11% of turnover, and how the line already knows before it stops.
- OTIF and service levels, with £2.1bn of UK grocery sales at risk from stock gaps.
- CBAM, which asks for emissions per product from 2027 when most data is only per site.
- The connected-data foundation under all four, and what it looks like built across the modern data stack.
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