The automation marketplace proved its resilience again in 2021 and returned to pre-pandemic levels. Despite advances in project engineering that reduced cycle times, automation projects in general are still long-cycle projects, and the overall market for systems took longer to recover than some of the more product-oriented and discrete automation businesses. Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) and maintenance business recovers before the project business.

The latest news and insights from Automation Fair 2022.

Market is expected to increase at a 10.3% CAGR from 2022 to 2030, reaching $377.25 billion by 2030.

“The answer to net zero is not as simple as ‘plug-in renewables, stop the gas’,” says Karim Amin of Siemens Energy.

The future of energy is systemic, open and collaborative — and runs on a smart grid

Interview with Ulrich Hempen, Vice President Business Unit Solutions at WAGO, on the transformation of the energy system and grid stability

Smart manufacturing technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), digital twins, digital threads, manufacturing execution systems (MES), advanced analytics, cobots and more all very powerful technologies. The synergies among these technologies make them so much greater than the sum of their parts. All of them [technologies related to Industry 4.0] are helping transform the manufacturing industries back into an economic powerhouse.