Quest Trend Magazine

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%.

The Quest Trend Magazine has analyzed the course of the worldwide industrial production in the last 30 years. Three structural changes became visible. They are forming the economic situation also these days.

The still dominating role of the European Union countries for the machine export has dramatically been relativized since 2008. And even the export shares into the BRIC countries show up noticeable shifts.

Since 2000 the production shares of the 10 largest automakers in the 10 largest car countries have been changing in such a way that four out of ten manufacturers do not produce any more the most automobiles in their home land.

Currently 33% of the machine-builders are using Safety Ethernet but Safety Ethernet is being implemented at just 6% of the machines.

The market shares of the individual countries at worldwide automobile production have been dramatically changing since 2000. Quest TechnoMarketing made these changes clearly visible and published them in the Quest Trend Magazine.

The unstable supply situation with rare earths has specific causes. Quest Research publishes 7 theses in order to look behind the scenes trying to make an objective and useful orientation easier for manufacturers and users of automation technology.

The new Quest Research, recently published in the Quest Trend Magazine, reveals the dramatic shifts in the market shares of the automobile countries and manufacturers since the year 2000.

The new Quest study covers the current changes of the German machine-builders in regard to Ethernet and field buses at the machines, the control technology, the drive technology, IO-Link and RFID.

The new Quest study determines the robots use at the machines in the German machinery industry until 2014.