Focus Industry 4.0 in sectors of German machinery industry

The degree of realization of Industry 4.0 in the 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 and sales of German machinery industry in crisis mode since June 2019

The economic report determines the current development of trends in production and sales of the German machinery industry from 2008 to April 2020.

Long-term analysis German machinery industry: Production and sales 2008 - 2019

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

In 2020 Q1 machine exports peak to the US, further declining to China

The global export markets of the German machinery industry from 2008 to 2020 Q1 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.

Trump's reasons for protective tariffs due to US-China trade deficit misleading and hypocritical

A study of the Deutsche Bank Research deprives the reasons of the Trump administration of the factual base regarding the tariffs. The aggressive policy of Trump 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 high concentration

Focus industrial production of Germany

Germany's industrial production in crisis, trend dropping by 5.0% p.a. since November 2018

The economic report related to the up-to-date data from April notes a decline of production development since 2018 and therefore a crisis. The report indicates the global economic factors and the related signals of industrial production.

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 - 2019: Mostly decreasing, stagnating tendency in 2019

Focus global economy

Decline of industrial production in first quarter 2020

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

China's industrial production plunges in first quarter 2020

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

Decline of production and sales since August 2018

Rare Earths

Industria alimentari

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