Behind this average size a broad range of different growth expectations becomes visible. It reaches from a decline in production over stagnation up to growth expectations of more than 50%.
19% of the investigated machine-builders intend to change the use of robots at the machines this year, be it to use robots for the first time or be it to extend current uses as the Quest study „What the machine-builders want to change in automation technology 2011“ reports.
The implementation of IO-Link shows neither an erratic upward development nor a tough stagnation but a continuous, step by step spreading with more and more machine-builders in more and more sectors of the German machinery industry.
Packaging machines belong to the pacesetter of the use of real time Ethernet compared with the total machinery industry. However, the fast pace of using Ethernet will be weakened in the future to 2012.
