Quest Trend Magazine

19% of the investigated machine-builders intend to change the use of robots at the machines this year, be it to use robots for the first time or be it to extend current uses as the Quest study reports.

The implementation of IO-Link shows neither an erratic upward development nor a tough stagnation but a continuous, step by step spreading with more and more machine-builders in more and more sectors of the German machinery industry.

Packaging machines are pacesetters for real time Ethernet. Slowing dynamic of the implementation of Ethernet at packaging machines to 2012. Five issues packaging machine-builders have been dealing with since 2005.

Machine-builders in Germany who are changing the control technology at the machines this year prefer integrated control technologies. This reveals the new Quest study as the Quest Trend Magazine reports.

The intended technology changes in the control and drive technology, the implementation of robotics, energy efficient drives, I/O modules and IO-Link and RFID in the German machinery industry this year.

A summary of three Quest studies tracks how ProfiNet, EtherCat, Ethernet IP, Powerlink, Modbus-TCP, Sercos III, VARAN and TCP/IP have been developing in the German machinery industry from 2005 to 2010 und will develop to 2012.

The new Quest study unveils trends and innovations to Ethernet from the machinery industry’s point of view.

Ethernet at the machines will grow fast until 2012 – reveals a new study by Quest TechnoMarketing, Bochum, London. The Quest Trend Magazine publishes some highlights.

Part 2 of the Series „Automation Trends, Market Structure, Economic Crisis“ in the Quest Trend Magazine

During the last 10 years from 2001 to 2010 the use of electric linear actuators in the German machinery industry has increased fivefold according to a current market survey published in the Quest Trend Magazine.