The industrial landscape is changed by the necessity for higher productivity, flexibility, and energy efficiency as well as the growth in the emerging countries.
Suppliers to industrial businesses are facing a paradigm shift: In the past, they mainly developed and manufactured products and solutions that they could offer to customers from various industries in modified form (horizontal markets). Now, they have to expand their industry know-how and to offer customized solutions that cover the entire value chain as well as the entire lifecycle to the individual industries (vertical markets). A stroll through five industries.
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