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Machinery and equipment and Software and IT services

Machinery and equipment buys from Software and IT services; machinery and equipment depends on software and IT services.

Machinery and equipment (industry) and Software and IT services (industry): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Buys from

Physical flow · ₹1.2 per ₹100 · Machinery and equipment buys from Software and IT services

Machinery and equipment buys goods or services from Software and IT services; counted through every round of supply, ₹1.2 of each ₹100 of its output goes to them (OECD input-output tables, India 2022).

  • ₹1.2 of every ₹100 of Machinery and equipment output, all rounds
  • ₹0.4 bought directly

2. Industry input

Physical flow · Criticality 4 of 5 · Software and IT services → Machinery and equipment

2 of the enterprise types in Machinery and equipment depend on software and IT services.

Enterprise types that depend on it:

  • Machine-tool and industrial-robot builders: CAM and control software (criticality 4 of 5)
  • Automation system integrators and industrial-software vendors: software and IT services (criticality 3 of 5)

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.