Control Engineering

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The number of operational industrial robots relative to the number of workers hit 322 units per 10,000 employees in the manufacturing industry. The world’s top 5 most automated countries in manufacturing 2021 are: South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Germany and China. Today, China ranks in fifth place.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 22, 2023

Robot density in automotive Robot density is a key indicator which illustrates the current level of automation in the top car producing economies: In the Republic of Korea, 2,867 industrial robots per 10,000 employees were in operation in 2021.

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Control Engineering

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The combined market share of the top 10 and top 20 leading vendors barely changed between 2018 and 2020 and indeed dropped in 2021. As shown in the figure below, the top 10 vendors of mobile robots, captured just 36% of total industry revenues in 2021. Overall revenue growth rates for vendors ranged from ~150% to negative 50% in 2021.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 17, 2022

We first began hearing instances of this in mid-2021 and the frequency at which this gets mentioned in vendor interviews is rising. To answer the first part of the question, let’s take three of the largest auto manufacturers in the world: Toyota, Volkswagen and Honda. In 2021, 21.2 The scale of the problem. If just 23.5%

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Control Engineering

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In June 2021, FPT Software announced its partnership with Sitecore, a U.S.-based In June 2021, Kofax Inc. based digital experience software provider, to promote Sitecore digital marketing solutions to a broader range of businesses with intelligent automation, digital/IT transformation, and low code in Japan.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 15, 2022

2021 saw 100,000 mobile robots shipped globally, generating 35% revenue growth. Effectively, 2021 was benefitting from that slow start to 2020. The inevitable result of this was that most of the revenues from these orders shifted into early 2021. Whereas China’s orders will mainly be made up of shelf-to-person robots.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 30, 2023

The installation of Teledyne Controls, LLC’s new, sophisticated Aircraft Cabin Environment Sensor (ACES) on Boeing 737 aircraft was given FAA Supplemental Type Certification (STC) certification in March 2021. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) awarded L3Harris Technologies a contract of $96.4

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Statistics from the 2021 World Robotics Report from the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) 2021 highlight a global increase in the rate of robot adoption, with robot density – calculated as the average number of robots per 10,000 workers – almost doubling between 2015 and 2020.

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Control Engineering

MAY 4, 2023

The business employs around 600 people and generated revenues of $63 million in 2021. The acquisition is intended to strengthen ABB’s position as an industrial NEMA motor manufacturer. The transaction was originally announced August 11, 2022. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 31, 2023

economy and high interest rates have taken a toll on robot orders in North America, resulting in a decline for the second quarter in a row after record purchases in 2021 and 2022. This drop comes after a record 2022, where North American companies ordered 44,196 robots, up 11% over 2021, the previous record. A slow U.S.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2022

Equinix, one of the largest data center operators, consumed 7,140 GWh of electricity in 2021. When you compare this to the nearly 20mn low voltage ac motors sold globally in 2021, this sector doesn’t appear to be particularly special.

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Control Engineering

JULY 26, 2023

Research by Interact Analysis shows the motion controls market will return to steady growth following a period of high demand for consumer products in 2021/2022 which boosted investment in automation. Siemens continues to dominate the motion controls market, with Japanese vendors seeing a small decline in market share in 2022.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 3, 2023

billion in 2021 and will reach $568 billion by 2030, recording a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30%. Aerial or underwater drones can be adopted depending upon the project location and work requirements. . Robotics is a fast-growing industry,” Fernandes said. “According to GlobalData forecasts, it was worth $52.9

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Control Engineering

MARCH 5, 2023

For example, there was substantial growth in the mobile robot industry in 2021. And with VC funding for mobile robots reaching $1 billion in 2021, the positive impact robots can deliver on the factory floor will increase as well.

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Control Engineering

JUNE 28, 2023

In the long term, demand from new EV manufacturing lines and from service sectors such as intra-logistics will further fuel the market, resulting in an average growth rate of 5 to 7%, which is much higher than the pre-COVID period. The market cooled slightly in 2022 but still expanded, registering 11.9% unit shipment and 14.9% revenue growth.

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Control Engineering

AUGUST 12, 2023

It was a 75% increase over the same period in 2021. Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers like these motors because of their longevity, dependability, and low maintenance requirements. The need for induction motors is expected to rise as the EV sector grows.

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Control Engineering

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

in 2021, with non-automotive companies in sectors such as metals, food and beverage, plastics and rubber and others accounting for 58% of the total demand. has seen a significant growth in demand for robots as companies look for ways to meet the challenges caused by a rising shortage of available labor.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lack of skilled workers, materials and the economy are biggest threats to manufacturing. Lack of available skilled workers jumped from 37% in 2021 to 57% in 2022. Control Engineering Career and Salary Survey, 2022, May 17: Solve the workforce challenge: Automate, innovate, hire and retain great workers. See table with a breakdown.

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Control Engineering

JANUARY 12, 2023

The report reveals prices of low voltage ac drives started to increase in the second half of 2021 and continued into 2022, although the global average selling price (ASP) remained flat because of the distribution of price hikes and shifts in product mix towards lower power drives.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Demand for SCARA robots has been affected by the weak semiconductor and consumer electronics sectors since 2021, but this negative impact has been offset by demand from the surging new energy industry, such as lithium-ion battery manufacturing and photovoltaics.

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Control Engineering

MARCH 17, 2023

Arkansas is number 3, according to 2021 figures from USDA. Jeff Buhr, a USDA Agricultural Research Service scientist, will contribute his expertise in broiler physiology to guide robotic deboning of meat, Subbiah said. Georgia is the nation’s top broiler producer. The illness spread quickly among workers on the processing line.

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Control Engineering

APRIL 26, 2023

Zebra Technologies has expanded beyond industrial printers, labeling systems, barcodes readers and radio frequency technology (RFID) with its acquisitions of Fetch Robotics (2021) and Matrox Imaging (2023) and showed extensive technology integration at ProMat 2023 with a replica warehouse on the show floor.

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Automation Mag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This is a chance to showcase successful automation implementation within Canadian discrete manufacturing plants! The pandemic, Ukraine-Russia war, increasing costs and rising inflation rates have had considerable impact on the growth of the manufacturing industry. Introducing the Canadian Automation Awards. OEM of the Year.

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Automation Mag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This is a chance to showcase successful automation implementation within Canadian discrete manufacturing plants! The pandemic, Ukraine-Russia war, increasing costs and rising inflation rates have had considerable impact on the growth of the manufacturing industry. Introducing the Canadian Automation Awards. OEM of the Year.

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Control Engineering

MAY 30, 2023

The North American robotics market showed strong growth: Total installations in manufacturing rose by 12% and reached 41,624 units in 2022. The number one adopter is the automotive industry: companies based in the US, Canada and Mexico installed 20,391 industrial robots – up 30% compared to 2021.

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Control Engineering

OCTOBER 25, 2023

WEG has a history of purchasing undervalued businesses Since the merger of Regal Beloit and Rexnord in 2021 , Regal Rexnord has struggled to maintain its competitiveness in the low voltage motor market, losing market share every year since the merger’s announcement.

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Control Engineering

JULY 21, 2022

Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) in embedded platforms are being used to solve applications that were once very challenging as well as opening up new insights gleaned from the sensing and machine vision advancements being developed on the manufacturing floor.

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Control Engineering

JULY 15, 2022

Meanwhile, a 2021 report from market analysts Technavio predicts that the RaaS market will grow by $832.77 RaaS is on the rise. The experts at market analysts ABI Research predict that there will be 1.3 million installations of RaaS by 2026 generating $34 billion in revenue.

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