Montreal/Berlin, 5 June 2024. The expertise firm Vention has analyzed in a research how firms automate their manufacturing independently. Small companies are trendsetters in do-it-yourself (DIY) automation, however massive firms are catching up. The research relies on anonymized knowledge from over 1,400 company customers of Vention’s Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP) worldwide.
For the second time, Vention publishes the annual research „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 research, Vention evaluated the consumer conduct of its company prospects 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 elucidate how they use the DIY strategy for the design, integration and operation of automation elements, similar to robotic cells or cobot palletizers.
„The pattern in the direction of DIY automation continues this 12 months,“ says Etienne Lacroix, CEO of Vention. „One driver is the scarcity of expert staff, which is changing into more and more noticeable . The query of how manufacturing could be automated rapidly and cost-effectively is at the moment 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 research:
1. Small (< 200 staff (MA)) and medium-sized enterprises („Medium“, < 2,000 staff) had been the main customers of automation methods on MAP in 2023, with a share of 48% and 17%, respectively. Nonetheless, small companies confronted tougher financial circumstances in 2023. In consequence, there was a decline of 12% on this section in comparison with the earlier 12 months (see research, p. 8).
Giant firms („Giant“, < 10,000 staff) in addition to the educational and authorities analysis sector („Academia & Gov Analysis“) have made important beneficial properties in using the DIY strategy on MAP (+10% and +4% respectively). Platform expertise has made important progress over the previous 12 months, offering extra alternatives for high-throughput tasks historically related to bigger producers or customers (see research, p. 8).
3. In 2023, very massive firms („Enterprise“, > 10,000 staff) used the DIY strategy extra usually of their manufacturing facility 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 research, p. 11).
4. Tasks with machine operation functions had been the quickest carried out on MAP in 2023. That is seemingly as a consequence of the truth that it’s troublesome for firms to recruit employees given the continued labor shortages. As latest improvements have made CNC integration extra accessible, producers are extra keen than ever to rapidly undertake automated machine operation functions (see research, p. 24).
5. After two years of file 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 improve in each 2022 and 2023. In 2023, robotic deployments on MAP grew by about 40% (see research, p. 26).
The total research could be discovered right here.
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