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Global motion control market grows more than 20% in 2021

Control Engineering

Labor shortages remain a problem for motion control vendors, but this is a common lament for many in the manufacturing and engineering markets. This growth will continue out to 2026, but at a slower pace with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5%. It may have an impact on growth, but more from a supply side.

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Robots-as-a-service creates opportunities, lowers automation adoption barriers

Control Engineering

Robots-as-a-service (RaaS) is a flexible and affordable way for companies to deploy automation and related services such as engineering, maintenance and remote monitoring. Often used interchangeably with Robotics-as-a-service, RaaS comes in two main flavors. We manufacture robots. We sell the robots.

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Machine vision, automation streamline logistics and warehousing operations

Control Engineering

Due to staffing shortages and major supply chain issues, manufacturers are willing to emphasize automation more to meet surging demand. Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) used machine vision and sensing technologies to move around freely and a key part around automation when it comes to logistics.