- Insights from over 1,000 industrial transformations prove progress happens when processes advance together – not through isolated pilots.
- Convergence is the new rule. Companies combining AI, internet of things and automation achieve greater productivity impact than those relying on single tools.
- People and technology advance together: 75% of sites that invest in workforce capabilities – from safety and skills to employee experience – achieve above-median performance.
Industrial transformation has been occurring piecemeal over the last few years, with emerging technologies, new business models and data-driven processes deployed to improve the efficiency and capability of operations and supply chains across sectors.
However, industrial transformation is no longer a series of one-off experiments. Lumina, the World Economic Forum’s new AI-powered platform for lighthouse transformation, developed by the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains, unites eight years of data from the Global Lighthouse Network – a community of the world's most advanced operational sites.
Drawing from more than 1,000 real-world cases across 32 countries, the evidence is clear: companies are moving beyond pilots, deploying multiple technologies together and delivering measurable impact. Factories are now tech companies.
What these cases reveal is not just the scale of change but the patterns behind it. Why do some organizations break through while others remain stuck? The answer lies less in single technologies and more in how processes, people and systems evolve together.
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