AMS/ABB Automotive Manufacturing Outlook Survey 2025
Whether you’re navigating supply chain disruption, rising costs, tariffs, and labour shortages—or seeing growth through electrification, sustainability, and automation – we want your expert opinion.
Share your expertise. Shape the future.
Automotive Manufacturing Solutions, in partnership with automation & robotics specialist ABB, is continuing its annual industry survey, now in its 4th year, to identify the key manufacturing challenges facing automotive OEMs and tier suppliers - but to also highlight the positive opportunities within the most transformational period in the history of the automotive industry.
The AMS/ABB Automotive Manufacturing Outlook Survey 2025 is quick and easy to complete and offers vital insight into how the industry is tackling challenges like trade turmoil, rising costs, and supply chain disruption. It also explores long-term priorities including skills, future technologies, electrification, and sustainability. Share your views today and join industry experts shaping the conversation on how automotive manufacturing is adapting to unprecedented change.
Why take part?
By contributing, you will:
Shape industry understanding – your responses help map the realities OEMs and tier suppliers are facing across regions.
Benchmark your perspective – see how your challenges and opportunities compare with peers across the industry.
Gain forward-looking insights – discover how electrification, sustainability, automation, and robotics are reshaping manufacturing.
Highlight solutions – contribute to identifying strategies to tackle rising costs, labour shortages, and supply chain disruption.
Stay ahead of change – receive a free copy of the survey findings when they are published in January 2026.
What does the survey cover?
Challenges in automotive manufacturing
Labour and skills challenges
Manufacturing complexity
Future of automotive manufacturing
Sustainable manufacturing
Electrification & alternative fuels
Automation & robotics
State of the industry
Rising costs
Challenges in supply chains
All responses are completely confidential and will be reported only in aggregate.
As an incentive, you can choose to enter a prize draw to win one of THREE prizes
1st prize Bose QuietComfort headphones
2nd prize Apple Earpods
3rd prize $25 Amazon voucher
Sponsor
This survey was compiled in partnership with ABB.
ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 105,000 talented employees in over 100 countries.
