How to deal with journal requirements to share data when data comes from industry and industry partner would not permit sharing? Many authors, especially in manufacturing, use data from real manufacturing companies (not from a lab experiment) for their research. They are asked to report only the results from their analysis on those datasets in journal papers without publishing the underlying data due to confidentiality agreements with the companies. However, I see that the journals are increasingly asking the authors to deposit the raw data so that the research is reproducible. On the other hand, the companies are not ready to make their internal data go public but they are ok with publishing the summary statistics on the datasets. As a result, authors face difficulty in publishing their research results in journal papers. 

Any strategies to handle this situation effectively and convince editors about the non-availability of the datasets to other researchers?
I am going to question the premise:

You ask: Any strategies to handle this situation effectively and convince editors about the non-availability of the datasets to other researchers?

I'm going to say: You can't and you shouldn't.

It isn't that the journal editors don't believe you when you say "This data is not able to be released for other researchers."
They don't really care why it isn't available,
but they do believe that without that data, it is not the kind of article they want to publish.

Some options which may be valid depending on circumanstances:


Find a journal that is Ok publishing without data. (For understandable reasons these might not be as good as the more stringent ones)
Create a new synthetic dataset, that has similar properties to your real data, and present your primary results on that. (And mention as a secondary point your results on the real data)
Work out what it would take to make the company happy to release the data:


Perhaps removing identifiers (E.g. for personal identifying data k-anonymity is a common technique)



See also the related question:
Can you publish studies based on confidential customer data that comes from private companies?