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Industry X

End-to-end. Connected. Intelligent. Embrace change for your entire product and operating value chain.

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Reimagine the products you make and how you make them

Industry X combines Accenture’s powerful digital capabilities with deep engineering, manufacturing, and capital projects expertise.

Working across multiple industries, we offer the broadest suite of services for digitizing your R&D, engineering, construction, factory floors, and plant operations; speeding up the transformation of hardware into software-enabled products; reinventing capital project processes and resulting infrastructure; driving operational safety, sustainability and productivity at scale.

Industry X connects engineering, capital projects and manufacturing operations every step of the way to reimagine how products, infrastructure and services are:

  • Designed and engineered
  • Sourced and supplied
  • Manufactured and constructed
  • Serviced, returned and renewed

Using data and technologies such as AR/VR, cloud, AI, 5G, robotics and digital twins, we’ll work with you to build resilient and agile businesses that adapt their engineering, capital projects and manufacturing operations in the face of change.

Together, we’ll solve your biggest challenges and create products, infrastructure and services that your customers love, quickly, efficiently and sustainably.

Welcome to Industry X

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Capabilities

Our team has expertise in design, engineering, construction management, manufacturing, technology, consulting and operations. Together, we help solve your biggest challenges quickly, sustainably and cost effectively.

Digital engineering and R&D

Digitizing the R&D process to help clients lower their development costs and get new products to market faster.

Smart connected product design & development

Creating smart-connected products that provide vital digital intelligence and drive organizational change.

Product platform engineering & modernization

Bringing new ideas, products and services to market with increased efficiencies and speed.

Product as-a-service enablement

Enhancing clients’ revenue streams by helping them adapt to as-a-service businesses.

Digital production & operations

Creating connected factories and plants across multiple sites for enhanced management and efficiencies.

Capital projects

Managing and digitizing large infrastructure projects to deliver assets of the future while bringing them in on time and budget.

Intelligent asset management

The power of data and digital to increase asset reliability through self-optimizing operations.

Autonomous robotic systems

Redesigning manufacturing for more productive and efficient human + machine collaboration.

For nearly a decade, Accenture has been building unique capabilities and ecosystem partnerships, combining the power of data and digital with engineering and manufacturing services.

Acquisitions

Our recent acquisitions bring fresh ideas, exceptional talent and unrivalled capabilities to our Industry X team, strengthening our value to our clients to deliver engineering and manufacturing services at scale.

Anser Advisory

Specializing in capital program advisory and consulting services, as well as project and construction management, across transportation, energy, state/local government, water/sewer. Learn more.

ATI Solutions Group

Enabling companies automate and remotely run mines and rail networks, set up smart maintenance workflows, analyze data from the field, and optimize their operations. Learn more.

Oasys

Experts in providing specialist solutions for automation, digitalization and industrial control. Learn more.

Eclipse Automation

Delivering advanced automation solutions and high-tech manufacturing know-how to clients across multiple industries. Learn more.

Advoco

Specializing in configuring, integrating and delivering complete EAM solutions across multiple industries. Learn more.

umlaut

A global, full-service, cross-industry, end-to-end company that offers advisory and engineering services to clients all over the world. Learn more.

T.A Cook

Specializing in asset performance management and capital projects for clients in capital-intensive industries and infrastructure. Learn more.

Electro 80

Providing operational technology (OT) and turnkey solutions across mining, energy, engineering, construction and utilities companies. Learn more.

Pollux

Providing solutions to optimize manufacturing and logistics processes including fully functional assembly lines that include robots, the software that controls them, and robots as a service. Learn more.

SALT Solutions

Implements and maintains IT systems for production, operations and logistics in automotive, manufacturing, consumer goods and chemicals companies. Learn more.

ESR Labs

Creating embedded software for connected car and mobility services including autonomous driving technology. Learn more.

VanBerlo

Developing smart connected solutions that combine physical objects with digital services, using technologies, such as IoT sensors, AI and data analytics. Learn more.

Zielpuls

Providing architecture, development, engineering and services for complex digital products and services. Learn more.

Spotlight our new engineering capabilities

Through our recent acquisitions ESR Labs, Zielpuls and umlaut, we are enhancing our capabilities in engineering.  By combining our expertise and working directly with the products we make, we can deliver more digital transformations end-to-end.

We offer deep engineering and product development expertise across industries, breaking down silos to co-create solutions that are data-driven and embed digital into the heart of the products we make and how we make them.

Our engineers love to tackle problems and find creative ways to solve them. Using bottom-up, completion-oriented thinking to deliver innovative but pragmatic end-to-end solutions that create real value.

Our solutions are customized, rather than standardized and we deliver at scale.

  • Prototyping and design
  • Mechanical and electrical engineering
  • Systems engineering
  • Software engineering
  • Product testing, certification and validation
  • Technical drawings and specifications
  • Data management and analytics
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By combining strategic and technical excellence, we lead our customers into the future of product development. Our approach is holistic – bringing together processes, methods, and digital solutions alongside the cultural change needed. With our consulting and engineering expertise we offer an integrated view of our customers' products across the entire value chain.

From architecture to service platform, our heart beats for end-to-end engineering solutions, e.g. enabling smart products.

We operate deep in the core value creation of our customers, to help them to make their complex products manageable and future-proof.

"Code is craft": This is our motto while forming the interface between hardware and software, between the virtual and physical worlds. The result: high-tech solutions for the automotive industry.

We develop embedded software systems that are already in use in millions of cars today, enabling not only numerous services that improve people's lives and make them safer, but also comprise those critical software components that today’s cars can no longer do without. To do this, we rely on artificial intelligence and large industrial platforms.

Our teams work with leading OEMs, car manufacturers and hardware suppliers. In this way, we have built a global ecosystem that harnesses synergies and offers customers the full range of services they need.

Case studies

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Industry X

Warming up to becoming data driven

Industry X powers urban heating with efficiency and sustainability
Industry X

The fight against global warming goes digital

Swiss eco-tech Climeworks has an ambitious vision. To achieve it, they need to scale.
Aerospace and Defense

Unlocking the secrets of space data

How e-GEOS is bringing satellite observation to everyone.
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What we think

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Digital Engineering & Manufacturing

Industry X European Pulse Survey on energy transition

Accenture surveyed 200 engineering and manufacturing leaders in Europe, on a range of topics from energy transition to new business model innovation.

Digital Engineering & Manufacturing

Reinventing packaging

Why smart, connected packaging offers breakthrough value for product businesses.
Production and Operations

How digital twins enable autonomous operations

Manufacturing systems need to evolve to support manufacturer's transformation toward data-driven adaptive operations.
R&D and Engineering Solutions

How thread-first thinking maximizes value

Human Machine Interface and Experience

A new approach to warehouse automation

Smart Products and Embedded Solutions

The experience first connected products strategy

Ecosystem Partners

Virtual twins and sustainability

Innovation Architecture

Accenture named an innovation consulting leader

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Ecosystem partners

We work with a global network of market leaders and innovators to give you the ability to move quickly and scale faster, with unrivalled access to top talent, technology, and expertise.

Our leaders

Nigel Stacey

Global Lead – Industry X
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Fay Cranmer

Senior Managing Director – Industry X, APAC Lead
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Aaron Saint

Senior Managing Director – Industry X, North America Lead
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Götz Erhardt

Lead – Industry X, EMEA
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Related capabilities

Cloud

Efficiency, agility, and innovation—we make the promise of cloud real.

Supply chain

Reimagine supply networks that orchestrate change, deliver great experiences, and drive sustainability.

The Industry X Innovation Network

Start your journey at one of our Innovation Centers, where we bring digital ideas to life—and to scale.

Engineering Services

Our engineers work at the heart of product and systems development.​

Frequently asked questions

What worked yesterday to attract, engage and retain business may be fast becoming obsolete. That’s why companies must create a cutting-edge experience and align the organization, processes and technology to power it – through digital transformation. This means using digital or data-driven solutions to increase an organization’s productivity. It is the reinvention of organizations through advanced digital technologies. In other words, digital transformation is Industry X.

If companies don’t embrace the digital technology of tomorrow, they will watch their competitors do so. Digital technology drives new levels of efficiencies, customer experiences and sustainability. Embedding Internet of Tomorrow connectivity, cloud computing, analytics and machine learning can boost a manufacturer’s overall productivity, quality, flexibility and safety for the entire enterprise.

Successful manufacturers will capture the value of the new and emerging digital transformation solutions and focus efforts on building a business with the capabilities to deliver just the right product or service, at just the right time, and to a customer base of millions. Speed is becoming a necessary requirement across all industries. Using new digital tools to source and gather real-time data, companies are embedding the “fast” ethos in all parts of the business. A cultural shift has made sustainability mainstream and personal. People want to reduce their environmental impact, and they’re thinking much more critically about how their products are used and packaged. Today's consumers expect manufacturers to know them inside out—and use that knowledge to deliver products, services and experiences that are entirely relevant when it really matters.

Accenture has developed a comprehensive model to help companies implement a digital transformation strategy. It starts with working backwards from intended outcomes to identify industry-specific solutions for specific functions, processes and systems for growth. Accenture’s combination of industry expertise, departmental expertise, manufacturing, supply chain, sales and technology helps guide partners through their digital transformation journey. Get started today with digital transformation solutions that will create responsibility, relevance and resiliency.

We work as one team with diverse expertise to create 360° value.