VDMA: All-time high expected for German robotics and automation

2023-06-16 10:06:07

Frankfurt am Main (ots) – +++FOROGNOSIS 2023 plus 13 percent+++China is preparing to overtake+++automatica trade fair in Munich gives further impetus+++

Robotics and automation in Germany is on the way to another record: The industry is forecasting an increase in sales of 13 percent to 16.2 billion euros in 2023. In 2022, the companies already recorded an increase in sales of 5 percent to 14.3 billion euros.

“The robotics and automation industry is on course for growth,” says Frank Konrad, Chairman of VDMA Robotics + Automation. “In 2023, the previous record result from 2018 of 15.1 billion euros with an expected turnover of 16.2 billion euros should be significantly exceeded. Full order books are currently shaping the market situation. During the pandemic, providers have built up large order books, which the easing bottlenecks in the supply chains are now being worked off step by step. Our industry is finally leaving the pandemic behind.”

Sub-sectors of robotics and automation will develop positively in 2022:

• The division Industrial image processing increased by 11 percent: Industry sales reached 3.4 billion euros.
• Integrated Assembly Solutions recorded sales growth of 5 percent to 7.4 billion euros.
• The turnover of robotics increased by 1 percent to 3.5 billion euros.

Forecast 2023 of the three sub-sectors:

• Die Industrial image processing forecasts an increase of 7 percent for 2023, which corresponds to sales of 3.6 billion euros.
• In the Integrated Assembly Solutions the industry expects sales to increase by 17 percent to 8.7 billion euros.
• In the robotics growth of 12 percent to 3.9 billion euros is expected.

China in the fast lane – robotics and automation on the rise worldwide

According to the World Robot Association IFR, around half a million industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2022 – about twice as many as seven years earlier. The international race to automate is reflected in the robot density of national economies: with 322 units per 10,000 employees in the manufacturing industry, China overtook the United States in 2021 (274 units). According to a current forecast by VDMA Robotics + Automation, China will overtake Germany in terms of robot density by 2023 and will therefore have a higher degree of automation. “We welcome the initiative of the Federal Chancellor’s Future Council to strengthen robotics and automation in Germany,” says Frank Konrad. “In view of the new challenges, there is no time to rest in international competition.”

Transformation drives demand

In the future, automation will play a key role both in the manufacturing industry and in the service sector in Germany. Today, the service sectors generate 70 percent of the overall economic value added. Service robotics are urgently needed here, for example to remain productive despite a shortage of staff – for example with laboratory automation.

The demand for robotics and automation in manufacturing is also being driven by strong transformation trends: For example, the automotive industry is currently developing new manufacturing techniques for electric cars. The expansion of renewable energies for climate protection requires the cost-effective and highly automated mass production of green tech products such as fuel cells. Across all sectors, it is about doing business more sustainably, producing competitively in Europe and compensating for the lack of skilled workers.

automatica 2023 from June 27 to 30, 2023 in Munich

“We expect an additional boost for our industry from automatica 2023,” says Frank Konrad, Chairman of VDMA Robotics + Automation. The leading international trade fair for intelligent automation and robotics covers the entire value chain: from components to systems; from services to applications – for all manufacturing sectors.

The VDMA represents more than 3500 German and European mechanical and plant engineering companies. The industry stands for innovation, export orientation and medium-sized companies. The companies employ a total of around 3 million people in the EU-27, more than 1.2 million of them in Germany alone. This makes mechanical and plant engineering the largest employer among the capital goods industries, both in the EU-27 and in Germany. In the European Union, it represents a sales volume estimated at 770 billion euros. Around 80 percent of the machines sold in the EU come from a production site in the domestic market.

VDMA Robotics + Automation forms its own trade association with more than 370 member companies: suppliers of components and systems in the fields of robotics, integrated assembly solutions and machine vision (industrial image processing). The aim of this industry-driven platform is to support robotics and automation through a wide range of activities and services. The focus of work is statistical analysis and market surveys, marketing activities, standardization, public relations, future studies, trade fair policy and networking events and conferences. For more information, see: www.vdma.org/robotik-automation

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