Focus Industry 4.0

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

Production of Germany's machinery industry stagnating in March 2023, sales peak since 2008

The economic report determines the current development of trends in production and sales of the German machinery industry from 2008 to March 2023.

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

German machinery exports peak to the US, shrinking to China in 2022

The global export markets of the German machinery industry from 2008 to 2022 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 in 2019.

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 1.7% p.a. since October 2018

The economic report related to the up-to-date data from March 2023 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 0.5% to 1.0.%

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

Focus global economy

Industrial production of industrialized countries grows unevenly in 2022, mixed picture for BRIC, growth for MIST

How did industrial production develop in the industrialized countries in 2022, which absorb 59% of machinery exports?  And in the BRIC countries, which absorb 14% of machinery exports? And finally in the MIST countries, which demand 6% of machinery exports?

Structural changes in the course of the industrial production of the industrialized countries

China's industrial production on rollercoaster ride 2020/2022

Focus automation technology

Tecnologia di controllo nell'industria meccanica

Importante fattori che influiscono l'engineering di automazione delle macchine

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 nell'industria meccanica

Costruttori di macchine in Germania sono soddisfatti con IO-Link, da qui al 2016 si prevede una forte espansione

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"

Tendenze technologiche nell'industria automazione

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 positons 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

Industria alimentari

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