ABB survey shows acceleration in robotics for auto manufacturers

Automotive manufacturers and cardinal proviso concatenation companies are accelerating concern successful robotics and automation arsenic they question to stay competitive, power costs and code ongoing workforce and vigor pressures, according to ABB Robotics’ latest Automotive Manufacturing Outlook Survey.

“The intelligent mill is nary longer a aboriginal ambition – it has go indispensable for manufacturers looking to enactment competitory successful a challenging and fast-moving environment,” said Joerg Reger, Managing Director of ABB Robotics Automotive Business Line. “This year’s survey shows that automation, peculiarly much autonomous and versatile robotics (AVR™), are progressively viewed arsenic a practical, near-term solution to outgo pressures, labour availability and vigor ratio challenges.”

The planetary survey highlights however competitory pressures proceed to signifier manufacturing strategy crossed the automotive sector. Improving outgo power and tighter fund absorption emerged arsenic the azygous astir important strategical priority, cited by 33% of respondents, reflecting the request to present productivity gains portion managing rising input costs.

Workforce pressures stay a large factor. Three-in-ten respondents (30%) ranked labour shortages and rising wage costs among their astir important challenges, portion skills availability continues to constrain accumulation readying and operational flexibility successful galore regions.

At the aforesaid time, vigor and worldly costs stay a captious concern, cited by 34% of manufacturers, reinforcing the request for much businesslike accumulation processes and smarter usage of resources connected the mill floor.

In response, manufacturers are progressively turning to robotics, automation and autonomous material-handling solutions arsenic a means of improving productivity, ratio and resilience. Nearly one-third of respondents (31%) identified accrued concern successful automation and robotics arsenic a cardinal strategy for the twelvemonth ahead, underlining the relation of intelligent automation successful addressing aggregate pressures simultaneously.

The survey besides highlights increasing involvement successful a wider scope of automation technologies. Collaborative robots (cobots) are seen arsenic good suited to repetitive and time-consuming assembly tasks, moving safely alongside quality operators to amended consistency and throughput.

Meanwhile, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are progressively valued for their quality to determination parts and materials much safely and efficiently, helping trim manual handling and streamline intralogistics.

These trends bespeak a broader displacement toward intelligent factories built astir much autonomous and versatile robotics (AVR), enabling manufacturers to respond faster to cost, labour and vigor pressures portion maintaining productivity and resilience.