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 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 research „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 research, Vention evaluated the person conduct of its company clients on the Vention cloud platform MAP from January to December 2023. The intention 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 development in the direction of DIY automation continues this yr,“ says Etienne Lacroix, CEO of Vention. „One driver is the scarcity of expert employees, which is turning 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 specifically are automating independently. However in comparison with final yr, the variety of giant corporations utilizing DIY automation is growing considerably.“
Crucial 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. Nevertheless, small companies confronted tougher financial situations in 2023. Because of this, there was a decline of 12% on this phase in comparison with the earlier yr (see research, p. 8).
Massive corporations („Massive“, < 10,000 staff) in addition to the tutorial and authorities analysis sector („Academia & Gov Analysis“) have made important good points in the usage of the DIY method on MAP (+10% and +4% respectively). Platform know-how has made important 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 staff) used the DIY method extra typically of their manufacturing facility flooring than every other sector. Accordingly, the variety of tasks carried out with MAP on this phase 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 purposes had been the quickest carried out on MAP in 2023. That is seemingly resulting from the truth that it’s tough for corporations to recruit employees given the continued labor shortages. As current improvements have made CNC integration extra accessible, producers are extra keen than ever to shortly undertake automated machine operation purposes (see research, p. 24).
5. After two years of report gross sales (2021 and 2022), the Affiliation for Advancing Automation (A3) reported a major 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 could be discovered right here.
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