Montreal/Berlin, 5 June 2024. The expertise firm Vention has analyzed in a examine how corporations automate their manufacturing independently. Small companies are trendsetters in do-it-yourself (DIY) automation, however giant 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 target 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 consumer habits 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, comparable to robotic cells or cobot palletizers.
„The development in direction of DIY automation continues this yr,“ 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 present occupying many corporations. We see that small corporations specifically are automating independently. However in comparison with final yr, the variety of giant corporations utilizing DIY automation is rising considerably.“
An important findings of the examine:
1. Small (< 200 workers (MA)) and medium-sized enterprises („Medium“, < 2,000 workers) 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 section in comparison with the earlier yr (see examine, p. 8).
Giant corporations („Giant“, < 10,000 workers) in addition to the educational 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 expertise has made vital progress over the previous yr, offering extra alternatives for high-throughput initiatives historically related to bigger producers or customers (see examine, p. 8).
3. In 2023, very giant corporations („Enterprise“, > 10,000 workers) used the DIY strategy extra typically of their manufacturing facility flooring than some other sector. Accordingly, the variety of initiatives carried out with MAP on this section has risen – from a mean of 4.1 in 2022 to 4.9 initiatives in 2023 (see examine, p. 11).
4. Tasks with machine operation functions have been the quickest carried out on MAP in 2023. That is doubtless on account of the truth that it’s tough for corporations to recruit workers given the continuing labor shortages. As current improvements have made CNC integration extra accessible, producers are extra keen than ever to rapidly undertake automated machine operation functions (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.
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