Automation Market

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 …

The employment situation in the mechanical and plant engineering sector remains tense. In August 2020, the number of employees decreased by another 2,165 million to 1.025 million compared to the …

New ARC Advisory Group research on the market for PLC and PLC-based PACs reveals that programmable logic controllers (PLC) and programmable automation controllers (PAC) continue to be the preferred choice …

When it comes to assembly tasks, especially regarding small and medium lot sizes, up till now flexible robot programming has been a time-consuming and costly job. The “Rob-aKademI” research project, …

VDMA and ZVEI have founded the “Industrial Digital Twin Association” (IDTA) as a user organization for Industrie 4.0 together with Bitkom and 20 companies from the mechanical and electrical engineering …

The new World Robotics 2020 Industrial Robots report shows a record of 2.7 million industrial robots operating in factories around the world – an increase of 12%. Sales of new …

The value of data is increasing, and that value is stimulating the Internet of Things (IoT) Advanced Analytics Market, with the emergence of accessible out-of-the-box and off-the-shelf machine learning (ML) …