Focus Industry 4.0

International patent data to digital transformation - UK ranked sixth globally

The study of the European Patent Office reveals that technologies of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) accounted for more than 10% of all patenting activity worldwide in 2018 Global growth of 4IR patents nearly five times faster than average.

The degree of realization of Industry 4.0 in sectors of the German machinery industry

With all the numerous technological solutions for Industry 4.0 that are presented at trade fairs and in trade journals, there is no systematic overview of the state of implementation of industry 4.0 in the machinery industry. Based on the market research from Quest TechnoMarketing we publish the overview, to which degree Industry 4.0 is realized or will be realized in ten sectors of the German machinery industry.

How machine-builders are realizing Industry 4.0 in automation

Focus Production and sales in German machinery industry

Germany's machinery industry still in downtrend since 2018/2019, uptrend since March 2021

The economic report determines the current development of trends in production and sales ofn the German machinery industry from 2008 to August 2022.

Long-term analysis German machinery industry: Production and sales 2008 - 2020

Larger fluctuation range of production and sales of machinery industry since world economic crisis

The report extends the structural changes that have been developing in the course of global industrial production since 2000. It shows that, despite stagnating production, the range of fluctuation has increased by 17%, while the range of fluctuation in machinery industry's sales has increased by 27% despite slight sales growth.

Focus export market of German machinery industry

Breakdown of machinery exports by world regions remains constant in 2021

The global export markets of the German machinery industry from 2008 to 2021 at a glance.

Structural problems of machine exports: highly concentrated, lagging behind absorbing power of export markets

How German machine exports are using the absorbing power of the EU

The ranking of the ten most attractive EU countries for machine exports from Germany

50% of the machine exports from Germany point to the EU. Of those ten EU countries absorb more than 80% of those exports. The ranking of the most export-attractive EU countries for machine exports from Germany.

Reasons of the US administration for protective tariffs due to US-China trade deficit misleading and hypocritical

A study of the Deutsche Bank Research deprives the reasons of the US administration of the factual base regarding the tariffs. The aggressive US policy is going to compensate the weakening of the global position of the US.

Focus sectors of the German machinery industry

Sector profiles of the German machinery industry

Textile machines: Industry report

Industry structure of German machinery industry is tripartite and highly concentrated

Focus industrial production of Germany

Germany's industrial production still in crisis, trend dropping by 1.9% p.a. since October 2018

The economic report related to the up-to-date data from December 2022 confirms a decline of production development since October 2018 and therefore a crisis.

Global economy: Structural changes and outlook

Status of crisis overcoming in the global export countries of the German machinery industry

The annual growth rates of the industrialized countries since the overcoming of the global economic crisis range from minus 0.1% to 1.1.%

Worldwide industrial production 2008 - 2020: Decline in industrialized countries in 2019/2020, mixed picture with BRIC and MIST

Focus global economy

Industrial production in industrialized countries still in crisis in H1, growth in BRIC and MIST countries

Even in 2019, partly in 2018 industrial production of the industrialized countries dropped. The pandemic intensified theis development but is not the main cause for it.

Outlook for global economy

Focus automation technology

Control technology in machinery industry

Important influencing factors for the engineering of automation technology at the machines

Integrated automation technology: Positive feedback from machine-builders

Drive technology in the machinery industry

Above average and dynamic growth of the use of servo drives at the machines to 2020

IO-Link in machinery industry

Machine-builders in Germany are content with IO-Link, boost expected until 2016

Ethernet at machines

Increasing market penetration of real time Ethernet and Safety Ethernet in the German machinery industry

Interview with Rovema: "Sercos III fits perfectly to packaging machines"
Interview with Koenig & Bauer: "Sercos III - supply of peripherals not so large"

Technological trends in the automation industry

Market structure: Changes from electromechanics to microelectronics
Future market structure: Expected changes

Focus automobile industry

New trends in internationalization of global automobile production

Automotive International

How positions of the world carmakers have changed

How market shares of automakers changing in China

How market shares of the automobile countries at the worldwide car production are changing

Automotive Germany

The four stages of production and sales of the German automobile industry since 2008

Rare Earths

F&B Industry

Ethernet: Protocols in the F&B industry
Sensors: Requirements
Specifications: Role for the automation technology