Automation Market

The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance, an association of industrial companies aiming to drive digitalisation and create real added value on factory floors, will present itself in detail to a broad …

Member companies of the VDMA Plastics and Rubber Machinery Association expect good developments in their order intake and sales this year, according to a recent survey. “The demand for plastics …

The machine vision industry in Germany and Europe has been reporting high growth numbers and record sales figures for years. Between 2013 and 2019, sales in the German industry grew …

SmartFactoryKL continues to create the visions needed for the manufacturing systems of the future. In 2019, the basic modular design of Production Level 4 (PL4) upgraded the concept of Industrie …

The global Corona crisis has also led to high export losses for machinery and plant manufacturers. In 2020, machinery and equipment worth 160 billion euros were exported from Germany and …

Annual installations of industrial robots more than tripled within ten years (2010-2019) reaching 381 thousand units in factories around the world. The International Federation of Robotics shows top 5 trends …

Four out of five mechanical engineering companies will see a drop in sales in 2020 despite a strong end of the year. According to the latest VDMA flash survey, however, …

The average robot density in the manufacturing industry hit a new global record of 113 units per 10,000 employees. By regions, Western Europe (225 units) and the Nordic European countries …

For the first time since January 2020, they were no longer in decline. Overall, orders from abroad were on a par with the previous year, although they fell by 4 …

At the beginning of the year, the German plastics and rubber machinery industry – like almost all sectors of the economy – was hit hard by the effects of the …

While the industrial valves sector was still able to hold its own in the first half of 2020 despite the corona crisis, declining demand is currently making itself felt more …

The finalists of the 16th Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Robotics & Automation (IERA) showcase the latest skills robots have acquired to assist humans at work. The finalists of …

New ARC Advisory Group research on the global Distributed Control Systems (DCS) market reveals that the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a steep decline in DCS revenues across most major …

Martin Gadsby, Director at Optimal Industrial Automation, looks at how to make sure factory automation projects leverage the most suitable machine control solutions. Machine controllers are at the heart of …

Sales value of professional service robots increased by 32% to USD11.2 billion worldwide (2018-2019). The COVID-19 pandemic will further boost the market. High demand for robotics disinfection solutions, robotic logistics …