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How robotics-as-a-service can help manufacturers with operations challenges

Control Engineering

Robotics insights The consumer packaging industry faces significant challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain disruptions, and a worker shortage, leading to a need for increased automation. There’s a buzz around manufacturing and automation, but it’s not as widespread as you might think, but we need automation.

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Robotic picking market rapidly growing due to increased automation adoption

Control Engineering

Robotics insights The robotic picking market is expected to grow to almost $7 billion by 2030, which is leaps and bounds above where it is right now. Interact Analysis research shows the market for robotic picking is in the early stages of growth, but that it presents huge potential. billion by 2030.

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Picking robots’ role in manufacturing facilities expected to grow

Control Engineering

Robotics insights Picking robots are expected to have a more significant presence in manufacturing and other industries. Interact Analysis is projecting more than 150,000 will be installed by 2030. Demand for robotic picking expected to pick up pace towards the end of the forecast period.

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Robots are becoming more flexible and resilient

Control Engineering

Robotics insights. Developments in hardware, software and artificial intelligence (AI) are making robots more flexible and resilient and able to perform more tasks in applications they couldnt’t before. to 2030 to reach a value of more than $88 billion.

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Addressing manufacturing labor shortages

Control Engineering

Workforce development insights Manufacturers’ biggest challenge continues to be attracting and retaining a quality workforce and the demographics indicate this won’t be going away as workers get older. million manufacturing jobs will remain unfilled in the U.S. alone by 2030. Manufacturers are saying it.

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One million robots working in automotive industry

Control Engineering

The automotive industry has the largest number of robots working in factories around the world: Operational stock hit a new record of about one million units. This represents about one third of the total number installed across all industries, according to the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).

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Robots driving oil and gas industry growth

Control Engineering

Robotics in oil and gas insights. Robots in the oil and gas industry have been a mainstay, but growing digitalization and advances in artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT) and more are helping expand their role. Robotics can drives improvements in efficiency, productivity and safety.