Charts: Advanced Manufacturing in U.S., Canada


The magazine “Plant” is a leading source of manufacturing news and resources in Canada. Plant’s “2022 Advanced Manufacturing Outlook Report” contains the survey results from 208 manufacturing owners, leaders, and senior executives across Canada as to their engagement with advanced manufacturing, which the report defines as focusing on “automation, interconnectivity, machine learning, and the analysis of real-time data that involved the industrial internet of things (IIoT), the cloud, advanced computing, and artificial intelligence.” —


Association for Advancing Automation (A3) is North America’s largest automation trade group, representing more than 1,100 organizations involved in robotics, artificial intelligence, and related automation technologies.
The U.S. Department of Commerce defines “advanced manufacturing” as the “use of innovative technologies to create existing products and the creation of new products.”