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title: 2024-2025 State of AI in Manufacturing Survey | Rootstock
description: Read the 2024-2025 Rootstock State of AI in Manufacturing Survey conducted in partnership with Researchscape.
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# 2nd Annual State of AI in Manufacturing Survey

Explore insights from our latest State of AI in Manufacturing Survey, featuring exclusive year-over-year comparisons to see how AI adoption and priorities are evolving across the industry.

Discover:  

**AI’s Top Uses and Benefits                         ** From enhancing productivity and efficiency to improving supply chain management, learn which applications are leading the charge.

**AI Budget Trends                                             ** With 82% of manufacturers planning budget increases, see where AI spending is growing and why it matters.

**Copilots vs. Agents                                           ** Find out whether manufacturing professionals prefer autonomous AI agents or assistive copilots—and why.  

**Key Challenges and Solutions                   ** From data quality hurdles to skill gaps, find out what barriers manufacturers face and how they’re overcoming them.

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## Compare Year Over Year Results

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### **Find Out How AI Usage Compares in 2025**

In 2023, roughly 70% of survey respondents said that they had implemented some form of AI into their operations with the top 3 applications being production, employee training, and customer service. 

Download the 2024-2025 results to compare the findings to this and 17 other survey questions covering topics from skills gaps to budgeting and the impact AI will have on jobs. 

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