Manufacturing Market Research

Manufacturing Market Research In Seconds with AlphaSense

Whether you are conducting research to better understand the market, get a leg up over competitors, or spot your next big investment in the manufacturing space, AlphaSense can help you make the right business decisions with confidence and speed.

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Why AlphaSense is the Leading Market Intelligence Platform for Manufacturing

AlphaSense is a leading provider of market intelligence, including 10,000+ high-quality content sources from more than 1,500 leading research providers—all in a single platform.

With AlphaSense, manufacturing organizations can uncover everything they need to know to be ahead of the competition, and analysts can make smarter, more confident investment decisions in the manufacturing space.

Specific types of content you’ll find on the AlphaSense platform include:

Manufacturing and patent news, industry reports, company reports, ESG reports, and regulatory content from sources such as World Trade Organization (WTO), Manufacturing Dive, and more
Over 1,500 research providers including Wall Street Insights®, a premier and exclusive industry analyst research collection for corporate teams
Expert call transcript library that gives access to thousands of insightful interviews with former employees, customers, competitors, and industry experts

AlphaSense also saves you hours per project by centralizing the insights you need and delivering them to you with intelligent, AI-based smart search technology. Features like Smart Synonyms™ and Smart Summaries recognize the intent behind your search and zero in on the most important insights contained within each source, while Trending Topics and customized dashboards enable you to monitor the precise themes and companies that are of most interest and value to your strategic goals.

These features and more are why G2 has consistently rated AlphaSense a leader in market intelligence for corporations and financial institutions alike.

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How Top Manufacturing Companies Use AlphaSense

AlphaSense keeps you up to date on the latest market perspectives and analyst reports, so you can always stay ahead of competitors, suppliers, customers, and every trend disrupting the market.

Here are the top use cases for conducting market research for manufacturing companies:

Market Monitoring

AlphaSense helps you stay on top of market commentary by monitoring competitors and key topics all in one place. Our customizable dashboard and real-time alerts ensure you are always first to know of key developments in the industry or at specific companies, so you can be more proactive—rather than reactive—in your market strategy.

Competitive Intelligence

Stay up to date on your competitive landscape and never miss out on emerging players in the space thanks to features like company recognition and Search Summaries. By benchmarking against competitors, manufacturing companies can set realistic goals, refine product development strategies, and make informed decisions to enhance their competitive edge.

Competitive intelligence on suppliers is another key element of market intelligence in the manufacturing industry. Our platform helps research and benchmark preferred suppliers for your products and commodities, so you can be confident in your decisions.

Due Diligence

AlphaSense helps you conduct M&A due diligence faster than ever—including identifying the total addressable market (TAM), identifying new targets, and performing synergy analysis.

Our natural language processing (NLP)-based feature theme extraction enables you to uncover financial metrics beyond those found in standard 10-Ks or 10-Qs, as well as parse through alternative information sources for companies that are not covered or that are part of an emerging industry.

Earnings Prep

Accelerate your earnings analysis by utilizing our NLP-based feature sentiment analysis to quickly and easily analyze the positive, negative, or neutral undertones of your peers’ transcripts. Having a firm grasp on the implications behind earnings messaging will result in more confident decision-making and help you stay on top of market movements before your competitors.

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Accelerate Your Research Process With AlphaSense

AlphaSense aggregates all the essential market research perspectives you need in one place, so you can have a complete picture of the company profiles, industries, markets, or trends you are researching.

Combining automation functionality with proprietary AI not found on other platforms, AlphaSense helps you dramatically increase the breadth, depth, and accuracy of your research.

Here’s what you get when you use the AlphaSense platform for your market intelligence:

Aggregated Market Research

AlphaSense houses a vast universe of over 10,000 trusted content sources, including but not limited to:

Industry research from the world’s top financial research firms, including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, and J.P. Morgan
Unique industry expert perspectives from former employees, customers, competitors, partners, and thought leaders
Company documents including event transcripts, global filings, press releases, company presentations, product brochures, and ESG reports
Thousands of curated news sources (including manufacturing and patent news), trade publications, and regulatory information

Our platform not only houses all of the content you need to make rapid data-driven decisions, it also helps you cut through the noise with advanced search functionality.

Smart Synonyms™

This unique feature is proprietary to AlphaSense and has the ability to understand both the keyword and search intent behind any of your queries, factoring in search results that include variations in business language. For example, a search for “TAM” will also bring back results on “addressable market” and “market size.”

Relevancy Algorithm

AlphaSense’s advanced algorithm also eliminates noise (i.e., content with matching keywords but ultimately irrelevant to your specific search objective) and surfaces only the most relevant results based on market research workflows. This algorithm saves you precious time and energy, allowing you to get straight to analysis and other high-level tasks.

Sentiment Analysis

With AlphaSense, you can use AI-based sentiment analysis to identify, quantify, and analyze levels of emotion within text, particularly earnings calls and expert transcripts. Understanding sentiment can help you catch the subtle inflection points in language that move markets and provide early indicators of shifting corporate performance. This feature works in seconds, saving hours previously spent combing through company documents and expert transcripts for the best insights.

Generative AI

Unlike other generative AI (genAI) tools that are focused on consumer users and trained on publicly available content across the web, AlphaSense takes an entirely different approach.

Our industry-leading suite of generative AI tools is purpose-built to deliver business-grade insights:

Generative Search

Our generative AI chat experience transforms how users can extract insights from hundreds of millions of premium content sources. Generative Search is trained to think like an analyst, so it understands the market research intent behind your natural language queries. Whenever you search for information, Generative Search helps you get up to speed on a company or topic by instantly getting you the answers you need. You can dig deeper into topics by asking follow-up questions or choosing a suggested query. Each answer will always provide citations to the exact snippet of text from where the information was sourced.

Smart Summaries

This feature allows you to glean instant earnings insights (reducing time spent on research during earnings season), quickly capture company outlook and bull/bear cases from analyst research, and generate an expert-approved SWOT analysis straight from former competitors, partners, and employees. All Summaries provide you with citations to the exact snippets of text from where the summaries are sourced—combining high accuracy with easy verification.

Manufacturing Industry Insights From the AlphaSense Platform

Top Manufacturing Trends and Outlook for 2024

Discover the key trends shaping the manufacturing sector in 2024—from supply chain reorganization to digitalization and artificial intelligence, as well as an outlook for the future of this industry.

Generative AI in Manufacturing

Discover everything you need to know about the key use cases, risks, and outlook of generative AI in the manufacturing industry.

The Evolving Role of ESG in Manufacturing

We cover some of the ways ESG has been shaping the manufacturing space in recent years, as well as how key players are embracing ESG-led growth.

Expert Insights: AI Adoption Trends in Manufacturing and Energy

We dive into AlphaSense’s proprietary expert transcripts to explore how AI is transforming the manufacturing and energy sectors.

Manufacturing Forecast: Top Challenges Facing the Industry

Using the AlphaSense platform, we dig into our extensive universe of content to learn more about the current and future challenges manufacturers have to overcome, as well as their potential resolutions.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the top market trends to watch in the manufacturing industry?

The manufacturing industry is evolving at a rapid clip, and the driving force is technology. As more and more companies unlock the potential of digital technologies for increasing efficiency, resiliency, and productivity in manufacturing processes, we can expect to see technology playing a growing role in every facet of the manufacturing industry.

Some of the top trends we’ve identified for 2024 include: the rise of smart factories, more sustainability and carbon neutrality initiatives, and supply chain reorganization. For additional trends, make sure to check out our Manufacturing Trends and Outlook for 2024 blog.

What are the top challenges in conducting manufacturing market research?

While manufacturing market research offers numerous benefits, it also presents certain challenges, mainly because the industry is slow to change and technological adoption.

Thus, obtaining accurate and up-to-date data can be difficult due to the complex nature of the industry and the rapid pace of technological advancements. Additionally, navigating global supply chains and understanding regional regulations pose challenges for market researchers. Furthermore, interpreting data effectively and forecasting market trends accurately require expertise and sophisticated analytical tools.

Who are the main global players in the manufacturing market?

The global manufacturing market is characterized by a diverse range of players, including multinational corporations, SMEs, and emerging startups. Key players in the manufacturing sector span various industries such as tech, automotive, electronics, aerospace, and consumer goods. Companies like Apple, Toyota, Volkswagen, Foxconn are among the top global players, known for their innovation, market dominance, and extensive supply chains.

In terms of nations leading the manufacturing sector, the top five are:

China: China has been the world’s largest manufacturing powerhouse for several years, with a diverse industrial base encompassing electronics, automotive, textiles, and more.
United States: The United States is a global manufacturing leader, particularly in sectors such as aerospace, automotive, pharmaceuticals, and technology.
Japan: With the second largest manufacturing output in Asia and the third largest in the world, Japan is renowned for its innovation and advanced manufacturing processes, dominating industries like automotive, electronics, and robotics.
Germany: The manufacturing leader in Europe, Germany is known for precision engineering and high-quality manufacturing. It excels in automotive, machinery, and industrial equipment production.
India: India’s manufacturing sector has been steadily growing for the past five years, driven by investments in automotive, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and electronics, as well as global diversification among various companies.

Other nations with note-worthy manufacturing output include South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

What role does artificial intelligence (AI) play in the manufacturing industry?

AI is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry by streamlining processes, optimizing efficiency, and driving innovation. AI-powered technologies such as predictive maintenance, Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning enable new product optimization, real-time monitoring, and autonomous decision-making. This leads to reduced downtime, improved quality control, and enhanced productivity across the manufacturing value chain.

AI also facilitates the development of smart factories and agile production systems, paving the way for Industry 4.0 transformation and sustainable growth in the manufacturing sector.

Why do you need a platform like AlphaSense for manufacturing market intelligence?

AlphaSense gives you all the information and tools you need to gain a holistic and comprehensive understanding of the manufacturing industry. With high-quality content sources—including manufacturing and patent news, ESG data, regulatory content, equity research, and expert calls with industry experts—as well as advanced AI search technology that quickly parses through data, extracting the most critical insights and filtering out the excess noise, AlphaSense is your one-stop shop for qualitative and quantitative market research.

Finally, our user experience is consistently top-rated, with customers reporting significant gains in productivity, confidence, and efficiency upon implementing AlphaSense.

“AlphaSense actually enables us to make decisions faster because of the amount of information, the accuracy, as well as the comprehensiveness.”

– Gina Li, Vice President of Strategy, Schneider Electric | Case Study

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