Montreal/Berlin, 5 June 2024. The know-how firm Vention has analyzed in a examine how corporations automate their manufacturing independently. Small companies are trendsetters in do-it-yourself (DIY) automation, however massive corporations 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 focus is on do-it-yourself (DIY) automation, which permits producers of various sizes to automate their manufacturing independently utilizing state-of-the-art applied sciences.
For the examine, Vention evaluated the person conduct of its company clients on the Vention cloud platform MAP from January to December 2023. The goal was to seize the present state of DIY automation in corporations and to clarify how they use the DIY strategy for the design, integration and operation of automation elements, corresponding 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 staff, which is turning into more and more noticeable . The query of how manufacturing could be automated shortly and cost-effectively is presently occupying many corporations. We see that small corporations specifically are automating independently. However in comparison with final 12 months, the variety of massive corporations utilizing DIY automation is rising considerably.“
A very powerful findings of the examine:
1. Small (< 200 staff (MA)) and medium-sized enterprises („Medium“, < 2,000 staff) have been the main customers of automation methods on MAP in 2023, with a share of 48% and 17%, respectively. Nevertheless, small companies confronted more difficult financial circumstances in 2023. Consequently, there was a decline of 12% on this phase in comparison with the earlier 12 months (see examine, p. 8).
Giant corporations („Giant“, < 10,000 staff) in addition to the tutorial and authorities analysis sector („Academia & Gov Analysis“) have made vital positive factors 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 corporations („Enterprise“, > 10,000 staff) used the DIY strategy extra typically of their manufacturing unit flooring than some other sector. Accordingly, the variety of tasks applied with MAP on this phase has risen – from a median of 4.1 in 2022 to 4.9 tasks in 2023 (see examine, p. 11).
4. Tasks with machine operation purposes have been the quickest applied on MAP in 2023. That is possible resulting from the truth that it’s troublesome for corporations to recruit workers given the continuing labor shortages. As latest improvements have made CNC integration extra accessible, producers are extra keen than ever to shortly undertake automated machine operation purposes (see examine, 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 examine, p. 26).
The total examine could be discovered right here.