Montreal/Berlin, 5 June 2024. The know-how firm Vention has analyzed in a research how corporations automate their manufacturing independently. Small companies are trendsetters in do-it-yourself (DIY) automation, however giant corporations are catching up. The research relies 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 research „The State of DIY Industrial Automation“. The main focus 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 person conduct of its company clients on the Vention cloud platform MAP from January to December 2023. The purpose was to seize the present state of DIY automation in corporations 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 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 may be automated shortly and cost-effectively is at present occupying many corporations. We see that small corporations particularly are automating independently. However in comparison with final yr, the variety of giant corporations utilizing DIY automation is growing considerably.“
A very powerful findings of the research:
1. Small (< 200 workers (MA)) and medium-sized enterprises („Medium“, < 2,000 workers) have been the main customers of automation programs on MAP in 2023, with a share of 48% and 17%, respectively. Nevertheless, small companies confronted tougher financial situations in 2023. Consequently, there was a decline of 12% on this section in comparison with the earlier yr (see research, p. 8).
Giant corporations („Giant“, < 10,000 workers) in addition to the educational and authorities analysis sector („Academia & Gov Analysis“) have made vital features in the usage of the DIY strategy on MAP (+10% and +4% respectively). Platform know-how has made vital progress over the previous yr, offering extra alternatives for high-throughput tasks historically related to bigger producers or customers (see research, p. 8).
3. In 2023, very giant corporations („Enterprise“, > 10,000 workers) used the DIY strategy extra typically of their manufacturing facility flooring than another sector. Accordingly, the variety of tasks applied 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 have been the quickest applied on MAP in 2023. That is seemingly as a consequence of the truth that it’s tough for corporations to recruit workers given the continued labor shortages. As latest improvements have made CNC integration extra accessible, producers are extra keen than ever to shortly undertake automated machine operation functions (see research, p. 24).
5. After two years of report 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 enhance in each 2022 and 2023. In 2023, robotic deployments on MAP grew by about 40% (see research, p. 26).
The complete research may be discovered right here.
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