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The Future of Industrials – Key Themes for 2025 and Beyond

Technology M&A: AI infrastructure and regulation redefine the deal cycle

Technology dealmaking has roared back after several lackluster years. Capital is concentrating in AI infrastructure, connectivity and cybersecurity, even as regulatory pushback nudges buyers toward new structures and strategies designed to keep deals on track.

Driving Innovation – What You Need to Know About the Future of Auto Design

Carmakers are racing to design cleaner, smarter vehicles. Extended Reality (XR) is making this possible, transforming design from a 2D screen exercise into shared, immersive environments

Major structural shifts set to put industrial businesses to the test

Manufacturers are redrawing maps and rewiring factories to compete in a fragmented, technology-driven market. Across the industrial world, value chains are being reorganized around resilience and flexibility rather than pure efficiency.

How You Can Use Immersive Technologies to Reinvent Automotive Design and Manufacturing

Carmakers face rising complexity across the vehicle lifecycle and tightening cost pressures. Immersive Engineering tools are evolving and will reset how design, engineering, manufacturing and service work gets done

Smart Industry at Scale: Technologies Transforming Industrial Performance

Major smart-industry technologies are shifting from pilot projects to profit centres. Together they are rewiring how leading manufacturers plan, produce and maintain—reshaping the competitive landscape of global industry.

Protectionism and sustainability squeeze industrials as firms vie to keep up

Tariff volatility, fractured supply chains and net-zero mandates are pushing industrials hard in 2025. Operators, investors and other stakeholders need a resilient response.

Slashing at siloes: How tech is closing the gap between designers and the factory floor

In the realm of industrial innovation, a persistent challenge has been the disconnect between product design teams and shopfloor operators. Immersive Engineering is transforming this relationship

Industrials M&A: strategic themes drive dealmaking

Industrials M&A surged in 2025 with renewed vigor and thematic focus, signaling both resilience and strategic recalibration across global markets.

How real-time data access catalyses design collaboration

The ability to access real-time CAD data directly in an immersive environment is a game-changer. Teams no longer need to undertake arduous tasks prepping CAD data for design reviews, leading to more time spent on collaboration. It’s a vision shared by the Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) team for the Mono; their single seater, road legal supercar