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 giant corporations are catching up. The examine 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 examine „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 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 method for the design, integration and operation of automation parts, equivalent to robotic cells or cobot palletizers.
„The pattern in direction of DIY automation continues this 12 months,“ says Etienne Lacroix, CEO of Vention. „One driver is the scarcity of expert employees, which is changing into more and more noticeable . The query of how manufacturing could be automated shortly and cost-effectively is at the moment occupying many corporations. We see that small corporations particularly are automating independently. However in comparison with final 12 months, the variety of giant corporations utilizing DIY automation is rising considerably.“
Crucial findings of the examine:
1. Small (< 200 staff (MA)) and medium-sized enterprises („Medium“, < 2,000 staff) had been the main customers of automation techniques on MAP in 2023, with a share of 48% and 17%, respectively. Nonetheless, small companies confronted tougher financial circumstances in 2023. Because of this, there was a decline of 12% on this section 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 features in using the DIY method on MAP (+10% and +4% respectively). Platform know-how has made vital progress over the previous 12 months, 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 staff) used the DIY method extra usually of their manufacturing unit flooring than every 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 had been the quickest carried out on MAP in 2023. That is possible on account of the truth that it’s tough for corporations to recruit employees 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 examine, 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 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 here.
