Enhance Your Strategy
With Early Technology Signals and Future Scenarios for Manufacturing Industries.
FutureBridge Industrial Intelligence Platform
Transform your Business. Build the Future.
The FutureBridge Industrial platform is purpose-built to synthesize actionable insights on emerging technology signals, market trends, and future industry scenarios to help you:
- Innovate and inspire next-gen products, processes, and business models by adopting emerging technology signals like generative AI, natural language robots, etc.
- Anticipate and strategize for future scenarios, potential opportunities, and threats
- Embrace winning business models, sustainability, and consumer engagement to offer stakeholders value
Creating Value Across Diverse Functions and Teams
R&D and Innovation
Nurture Innovation with Technology Signals Dashboards, Scientific breakthroughs, and Game-changing IP
- Get inspired by technologies and features being developed elsewhere
- Identify, evaluate and monitor technologies and trends throughout their lifecycle
- Get a deeper understanding of the current state of the technology, latest developments and incremental innovations in each technology signal
- Map key players behind the technologies, their solutions
A strategic lens to unveil new opportunities from advancements in early-stage technologies and new business models
New Product Dev, Engineering, Manufacturing
Understand the growth potential of emerging technologies
- Unveil new opportunities from advancements in early-stage cross-industry technologies and new business models
- Assess which technologies and solutions to embrace
- Accelerate your strategic and technology roadmaps
- Learn from the current use cases and understand applicability across different applications and industries
Identify opportunities for new products and services - Evaluate future expansion strategies
- Accelerate your strategic and innovation roadmaps
Corporate Strategy & Marketing
Visualize the Future, Discover New Opportunities, and Anticipate Threats
- Anticipate technology capabilities and performance benchmarks for the strategic growth fields
- Visualize the impact on your industry through personalized industry impact reports
- Unearth new business models and go-to-market strategies
- Manage risks associated with new technology investments
CVC, VC, M&A, Ventures
Make smarter decisions with Technology Signals and Start-up Dashboards
- Visualize the evolution of technology and future scenarios to identify the value pools across an emerging ecosystem
- Identify the best technologies to invest in
- Future-proof investment or partnership opportunities
- Qualify early-stage startups for venture investment
Key Advantages
Build your technology roadmaps and innovation pipelines
- Track the technology signals across strategic growth fields like AI, Industry 4.0, Robotics, and Sustainability; and their implications for your industry
- Correlate and cross-reference emerging technologies’ adoption across different industries and processes
- Build your roadmap with foresight on capabilities, features, and performance benchmarks for strategic technologies
Anticipate future scenarios for your industry
- Detailed future of strategic growth field reports provide actionable insights on future capabilities and roadmaps for each growth field
- A methodical and systematic approach to predict the future scenarios for your industry through personalized industry impact reports
Track and analyze the evolution of technology across the industry
- Visualize technology evolution, adoption, and convergence and the impact on your industry
- Interactive and insightful dashboards correlating Industries, processes, business functions, and Science and Technology
Nurture innovation with early technology signals
Scout for new possibilities
5 Key Strategic Growth Fields
AI and Analytics
Artificial intelligence and data analytics solutions have reached a tipping point, consistently beating human benchmarks in narrow tasks. Some of the key areas in this SGF include:
- Intelligent Products & Equipments
- Process Control & Optimization
- Enterprise AI
- Generative AI
Industry X.0 & Digitalization
At the heart of Industry X.0 lies the seamless integration of cyber-physical systems and data analytics, empowering industries to optimize efficiency, enhance productivity, and unlock unprecedented insights.
Some of the key topics of in Industry X.0 & Digitalization SGF include –
- IIOT & Digital Twins
- Smart Sensors
- XR: AR, VR, MR
- Traceability & Transparency
Automation and Robotics
Automation and Robotics strategic growth field explores the profound impact of automation and robotics on manufacturing, navigating the realms of innovation, cost-effectiveness, and the evolving role of human expertise.
Some of the key topics within this strategic growth field are:
- Lights-out manufacturing
- Robots
- Touchless Supply chain
- 3D Printing
Innovative Business Models
Innovative businesses have utilized data and technology to create new revenue streams that can be mind-bogglingly complex.
The industrial platform tracks innovations in business modes focusing on:
- X-as-a-Service
- B2B shift to B2C
- Enhancing Consumer Engagement
- Valorizing data
Sustainability
By 2030, various industries need to target around a 50% reduction in net-carbon emissions. Also, several regulations emphasize the need to have circular supply chains.
The FutureBridge industrial platform covers:
- Sustainable Manufacturing & Products
- Electrification
- Circularity
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Key Deliverables
Live Tracker of 1500+ Emerging Tech Signals
An interactive dashboard to analyze technology signals, their growth, and implications for different industries. Tracking activity and developments in strategic growth fields across industries and processes.
Future of Manufacturing Report
A foundational annual publication analyzing future scenarios for manufacturing industries. Analyzing the impact of technology signals across all strategic growth fields in terms of goals, opportunities, and threats for manufacturing.
Future of Strategic Growth Field Reports
Tracking and forecasting the capabilities, performance benchmarks, and milestones to be achieved in coming years in the underlying growth field.
Signals Radar Report
A bi-annual refresher on the journey of all signals over the last 6 months, capturing key insights; Also adding fresh signals and revising the analysis for each signal in the dashboard.
Personalized Industry Impact Reports
Personalized for each subscriber, a quarterly report summarizing the technological progress across strategic growth fields and the potential impact in your industry.
Ask your Analyst
The 'Ask your Analyst' advantage ensures prompt answers and assistance for any inquiries, extending support beyond mere subscription access, and empowers you with personalized insights.
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Our 500+ people (and network of over 5000 industry experts) create impact for Fortune 500 Corporations.
Our team of experts is spread across three continents and is united by relentless curiosity, a desire to solve problems and an appetite for innovation and opportunity.
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FAQs
What is the scope of coverage of FutureBridge Industrial Platform? +
We cover emerging technologies across five strategic growth fields (AI, Industry 4.0, Robotics, Innovative Business Models and Sustainability), for key manufacturing industries like food, consumer and industrial goods, agriculture, mining, construction, chemicals, and others.
What is out of scope in your coverage? +
What is a Strategic Growth Field? What is a Trend? +
FutureBridge defines Strategic Growth Fields (SGFs) as frontiers of innovation and technology aligning to a common goal. Our industrial manufacturing platform covers 5 Strategic Growth Fields – AI & Analytics, Industry X.0 & Digitalization, Automation and Robotics, Innovative Business Models, and Sustainability.
The platform covers developments and emerging technologies with the common goal of making manufacturing industries more intelligent, digitalized, automated, innovative, and sustainable.
What is your Methodology for scouting of Signals? +
Our methodology of scouting for Signals includes the analysis of Patent filings, Scientific Literature, News and Start-ups.
We collect data from paid and free databases. Our experts analyze the state-of-the-art and advancements in technology to rank technology signals based on the activity and potential impact of the technology signal.
How can I get to know more about the platform capabilities? +
Our experts can help you with a guided demo to better understand the capabilities of the FutureBridge Mobility Platform. All you need to do is fill up the ‘Demo Request’ form with your requirements.
Is it possible to hyper-customize the platform based on my business needs? +
Yes! Our platform includes a provision to develop hyper-customized insights aligned with your specific business objectives. Please get in touch with your Client Relationship Manager to understand how to access this feature.
How do I get started and what credentials do I need to log in? +
Contact us and our experts will set you up to leverage our platform for your brand.
What kind of support and training do you provide for using the platform? +
We provide comprehensive support and training for using our platform. Our dedicated support team is available to assist you with any questions or issues you may have. Additionally, we offer training resources, tutorials, and documentation to help you get the most out of the platform.
How does the platform's real-time analytics feature help make better business decisions? +
The real-time analytics feature of our platform allows you to access up-to-date insights on customer preferences, trends, and concepts data. This can help you identify emerging trends, coverage of relevant information providing end users with extensive information on various themes, topics, and industry-related content, to enable informed decision taking that will optimize your business strategies.
Is the platform customizable to suit the specific needs of my business? +
Yes, our platform offers a high level of customization to meet the unique needs of your business. The platform can be customized to align with your branding, business processes, and specific requirements, ensuring it seamlessly integrates with your operations.
How secure is the platform in terms of protecting customer data and sensitive information? +
We prioritize the security and protection of customer data. Our platform employs robust security measures to safeguard sensitive information, and we adhere to industry best practices and compliance standards to ensure data privacy and confidentiality.
Which is the best way to stay updated on the new startups and opportunities? +
Our platform has the capability to keep you updated on all that's trending in the world of startups and emerging opportunities for driving market growth through periodic, curated, and comparative insights. Try it out to experience it!
How can the knowledge of technologies and trends be delivered through the platform? +
We also share with you our repository of content knowledge, reports, infographics and select articles through our perspectives section containing cross links.
Can the data be integrated with my internal idea management system? +
Yes, this is possible. However, as data integration is dependent on various technical aspects, we will involve our technical team to do a feasibility assessment to integrate the FutureBridge platform with your internal systems and provide you with a seamless experience.
How frequently is the data updated on the platform? +
All the deliverables are calendarized while certain sections are near-real time. You will get access to the detailed calendar along with your subscription plan.
How can I customize the coverage or ask for a bespoke project? +
You can customize your coverage, ask for deeper analysis or commission entirely new projects with the feature “Ask your Analyst”.
Our team will scope your requirements and provide a methodology to address them.
There is no limit in terms of how many questions you can ask.
I need a more in-depth understanding of an opportunity (start-up/technology/concept/others). What should I do? +
Please get in touch with your Client Relationship Manager to discuss the scope of an ad-hoc custom research request.
What is the pricing structure for using the platform? +
We have a straightforward pricing structure. Further, we offer a custom platform to support your specific business needs. All these can be discussed further with our sales team.
Can I get single-user access to the platform? +
Our commercial model is designed to support small and big teams. Contact us to discuss your requirements.