The robotics and automation trade in Germany is benefiting from a increase in demand, in accordance with trade affiliation VDMA.
Within the first 4 months of 2022, order consumption elevated by 38 % year-on-year. The dynamic market growth had already been noticeable with the outcomes for 2021, wherein trade turnover rose by 13 % – greater than anticipated.
Frank Konrad, chairman of the VDMA Robotics + Automation Affiliation, says: “The robotics and automation trade is booming.
“Nonetheless, suppliers will be unable to course of the orders as rapidly as normal. The problem now could be to handle bottlenecks within the provide chains.”
With a predicted progress of 6 %, the trade forecast for robotics and automation can be optimistic for 2022 – however stays under earlier expectations, reflecting the severely disrupted provide chains. Specifically, a scarcity {of electrical} and digital parts is extending supply occasions.
The three sub-sectors developed otherwise in 2021. Machine imaginative and prescient gained 16 %: trade gross sales reached €3.1 billion. Robotics gross sales rose by 13 % to €3.5 billion.
Built-in meeting options recorded an 11 % enhance in gross sales to €7.1 billion. Total, gross sales in robotics and automation rose by 13 % to €13.6 billion – greater than initially anticipated.
VDMA Robotics + Automation forecasts a 7 % enhance in gross sales for built-in meeting options to €7.6 billion in 2022. In robotics, progress of 5 % to €3.6 billion is anticipated. Machine imaginative and prescient can be set to develop by 5 %, comparable to gross sales of €3.2 billion.
Frank Konrad says: “The general robotics and automation forecast is plus 6 % with an anticipated trade turnover of €14.4 billion. Robotics and automation in 2022 is thus virtually headed for the sturdy pre-crisis degree of €14.7 billion of 2019.”
The VDMA R+A member says its community, consisting of fifty,000 folks in 350 corporations, has “essential duties” to unravel which can be essential for the longer term.
Sustainable manufacturing
Consultants consider that the elevated use of robotics and automation is indispensable for attaining local weather and environmental safety targets and for sustainable enterprise.
In a latest pattern survey performed by automatica (Messe München), robots guarantee high quality requirements for merchandise in sustainable high-tech manufacturing, in accordance with 88 % of trade decision-makers.
Trade options are additionally serving to the round financial system and renewable energies to attain their breakthrough. Inexperienced tech merchandise, resembling photovoltaic modules, will be manufactured cost-effectively in Europe in giant portions utilizing automation know-how.
The demand for gasoline cells or notably highly effective batteries for electrical vehicles is opening up new market alternatives.
The way forward for work
A great 80 % of the specialists who make choices about robotics and automation in German industrial corporations additionally consider that technological innovation could have a optimistic impression on jobs.
Human-robot collaboration and using help methods will create higher-quality employment and provide new alternatives for steady training and coaching.
A brand new era of automation know-how that can be utilized fully with out programming and is intuitive to use is more likely to cleared the path right here. 52 % of decision-makers are firmly satisfied that better-qualified staff will get better-paid jobs sooner or later.
Digitalization, cellular robotics and intralogistics
Seamlessly interconnected machines, state-of-the-art AGVs (automated guided autos) and AMR (autonomous cellular robots) are revolutionizing factories. Together with revolutionary software program options, they shut the final gaps and type really built-in methods within the Good Manufacturing unit.
Abilities scarcity an enormous concern
Robotics and automation corporations are going through a labor and expertise scarcity that’s accelerating because the “child boomer” era retires from the job market. Given the essential duties forward, that is more and more turning into a threat issue.
Konrad says: “The labor scarcity can’t be solved by robotics and automation alone. Firms are doing their greatest to handle the scarcity of younger expertise.
“Nonetheless, we’d like a stronger dedication from policymakers: Significantly in Germany, the scarcity of personnel threatens to change into the subsequent main bottleneck issue, following the present disruptions in provide chains.”
