The GLN today: a network of inspirational peers 1.1 The GLN began as a group of 16 leading factories. Today it includes 189 sites from over 30 countries and 35 industries at the frontier of operational performance. At the outset, the GLN looked for factories that had escaped pilot purgatory and successfully deployed cutting-edge technology innovations with impact. These pioneering sites and value chains served as early examples of 4IR’s capability for transformational change in manufacturing performance and provided a blueprint for achieving it. Today’s 189 Lighthouses represent factory, sustainability and end-to-end value chain categories. The network extends to 30+ countries and 35 subsectors, four times greater than in 2018. Lighthouses have generated 1,000+ use cases and 2,000+ metrics, proving that the pilot purgatory challenges that were once faced by early Lighthouses can be overcome. The last three Lighthouse cohorts have reported achieving gains from transformations in just 10 to 20 months, or on average 25% to 50% faster than the first three Lighthouse cohorts.2 This has generated an even higher return on investment (ROI) than the average Lighthouse transformation: two to three times higher over three years and four to five times higher over five years.3 Figure 1 illustrates the distribution of Lighthouse sites by award type, geography and industry. Lighthouse representation is growing at an average rate of five new countries per year and 10 new subsectors represented per cohort, with recent growth in heavy equipment, upstream materials and food and beverages and regionally across Central and Southeast Europe, South and Southeast Asia and parts of the Americas. 1.There were three award types given in 2024: Sustainability, Factory/manufacturing and E2E value chain. For more information on awards, see Table 1. Source: Global Lighthouse Network. Lighthouses have generated 1,000+ use cases and 2,000+ metrics, proving that the pilot purgatory challenges that were once faced by early Lighthouses can be overcome. Lighthouses are growing in diversity – composition in 2024 FIGURE 1 Award type1 % of total Lighthouse sites per award type, geography and industry Geography Industry Advanced industries AI – low volume Consumer packaged goods Process industries Pharmaceuticals, medical products LogisticsAsia X China Europe, Middle East, North Africa North America Latin AmericaSustainability Factory/manufacturing End-to-end (E2E) value chain12% 20% 49% 7%17%14%12% 1% 41%28%8% 3% 59%29% Global Lighthouse Network: The Mindset Shifts Driving Impact and Scale in Digital Transformation 6

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