Preparing for the Industrial Metaverse
7 May 2025
7 May 2025
Paula Yarwood, Solutions Architect at Inforlogic, looks at why modern, cloud ERP is key to the convergence of digital and physical manufacturing.
Driven by Immersive Tech, AI, and Digital Twins, the Industrial Metaverse concept is gaining significant traction. Reports predict it will be worth $150 billion by 2035.
But what does this mean for manufacturers’ digital transformation programmes, and what should they be doing to capitalise on this revolution?
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, manufacturers face the constant challenge of investing in growth to stay ahead of the competition while streamlining their operations. While many have embraced new capabilities and modern ERP in achieving this, for many there’s still some way to go, despite the fact that 74% of C-Suite executives and software users say advanced technologies create business value.
As manufacturers increasingly look at new ways to leverage technology to increase margins, identify new revenue streams and expand market share, process innovation is key. And as the rate of change accelerates, operations will increasingly rely on a connected ecosystem where data flows effortlessly, enabling informed decision-making, optimised performance based on accurate and timely shop floor data. This is where the Industrial Metaverse, essentially a virtual representation of physical industrial environments, can expedite performance.
Unlike the consumer Metaverse, the Industrial Metaverse is essentially a digital ecosystem where physical assets, production processes, and supply chains are mirrored as virtual replicas. These digital twins allow manufacturers to simulate, monitor, and create scenarios from which to optimize industrial operations in real-time.
Leveraging modern technologies such as AI, IoT, VR/AR, and 5G, the goal of the Industrial Metaverse is to optimise all aspects of manufacturing performance from operational efficiency, innovation, skills and revenue.
As the digital backbone of manufacturing, ensuring the right ERP platform, which allows every aspect of operations to be intelligently interconnected and optimised for maximum efficiency, is paramount in creating the right foundations. This brings together the data necessary to populate and inform models and generate the intelligence from which to make the best decisions.
While it’s hard to say when this shift will reach maturity, market predictions, combined with an accelerating pace of technological change, indicate that now wouldn’t be a bad time to start preparing.
The right Cloud ERP is imperative in ensuring readiness for this new chapter. Through leveraging APIs to integrate real-time data, digital twins, and advanced analytics, operations can be truly optimized to enable collaborative decision making.
Not only does it allow integration with a wider range of tools, easily and quickly, to facilitate the collaboration necessary in the Industrial Metaverse, the flexibility it provides instils the scale to manage peaks and troughs in transactional volumes or changes in production schedules and product lines. As well as harnessing complexity and simplifying operations, this capability provides opportunities for innovation.
Ultimately, modern manufacturers need new digital-first mindsets, alongside the most advanced capabilities to thrive in a rapidly evolving world. Infor’s Velocity Suite is helping manufacturers move one step closer to the industrial metaverse. Built on AWS cloud, it has almost infinite capacity to scale, and AI, RPA and Process Mining as standard.
Contact us today for more information on how Inforlogic can help you to put digital first with Infor CloudSuite Industrial. Whether you’re looking to implement a new system or need some support with your existing SyteLine solution, get in touch via the website or call the team on 01606 720499.
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