Montreal/Berlin, 5 June 2024. The know-how firm Vention has analyzed in a examine how firms automate their manufacturing independently. Small companies are trendsetters in do-it-yourself (DIY) automation, however massive firms are catching up. The examine is predicated on anonymized information from over 1,400 company customers of Vention’s Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP) worldwide.
For the second time, Vention publishes the annual examine „The State of DIY Industrial Automation“. The main target is on do-it-yourself (DIY) automation, which allows producers of various sizes to automate their manufacturing independently utilizing state-of-the-art applied sciences.
For the examine, Vention evaluated the consumer habits of its company clients on the Vention cloud platform MAP from January to December 2023. The intention was to seize the present state of DIY automation in firms and to clarify how they use the DIY strategy for the design, integration and operation of automation elements, akin to robotic cells or cobot palletizers.
„The development in direction of DIY automation continues this 12 months,“ says Etienne Lacroix, CEO of Vention. „One driver is the scarcity of expert employees, which is changing into more and more noticeable . The query of how manufacturing could be automated rapidly and cost-effectively is presently occupying many firms. We see that small firms particularly are automating independently. However in comparison with final 12 months, the variety of massive firms utilizing DIY automation is rising considerably.“
An important findings of the examine:
1. Small (< 200 staff (MA)) and medium-sized enterprises („Medium“, < 2,000 staff) have been the main customers of automation programs on MAP in 2023, with a share of 48% and 17%, respectively. Nevertheless, small companies confronted more difficult financial situations in 2023. In consequence, there was a decline of 12% on this section in comparison with the earlier 12 months (see examine, p. 8).
Giant firms („Giant“, < 10,000 staff) in addition to the tutorial and authorities analysis sector („Academia & Gov Analysis“) have made vital features in the usage of the DIY strategy on MAP (+10% and +4% respectively). Platform know-how has made vital progress over the previous 12 months, offering extra alternatives for high-throughput tasks historically related to bigger producers or customers (see examine, p. 8).
3. In 2023, very massive firms („Enterprise“, > 10,000 staff) used the DIY strategy extra usually of their manufacturing unit flooring than another sector. Accordingly, the variety of tasks carried out with MAP on this section has risen – from a median of 4.1 in 2022 to 4.9 tasks in 2023 (see examine, p. 11).
4. Initiatives with machine operation purposes have been the quickest carried out on MAP in 2023. That is seemingly on account of the truth that it’s tough for firms to recruit workers given the continued labor shortages. As current improvements have made CNC integration extra accessible, producers are extra keen than ever to rapidly undertake automated machine operation purposes (see examine, p. 24).
5. After two years of document gross sales (2021 and 2022), the Affiliation for Advancing Automation (A3) reported a big 30% decline in robotic gross sales in North America in 2023. In distinction, robotic deployments on MAP noticed a notable enhance in each 2022 and 2023. In 2023, robotic deployments on MAP grew by about 40% (see examine, p. 26).
The total examine could be discovered right here.
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