The overall automated guided vehicle market is expected to grow from USD 2.0 billion in 2019 to USD 2.9 billion by 2024 at a CAGR of 7.8% as per a report by MarketsandMarkets.
Will integration of Industry 4.0 with robotics to propel the market further?
Traditional industrial facilities are slowly evolving into smart, connected, and highly efficient automated facilities by integrating Industry 4.0 with automation systems. Industry 4.0 is capable of converting an industrial facility into an autonomous plant. It combines computers and industrial automation solutions with the help of robotics to form a single automated unit. The network of connected devices creates a smart architecture capable of taking decentralized decisions. The growth of Industry 4.0 is changing the functioning of warehouses.
Industry 4.0 also aims to create an operational environment wherein humans and robots can work together efficiently. Furthermore, the integration of Industry 4.0 and robotics would transform processes into an industrial space with improved coordination between automation systems. This integration will facilitate time-critical, high-velocity operations at lower costs in the highly demanding and continuously evolving supply chain ecosystem.
Download PDF Brochure:
https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/pdfdownloadNew.asp?id=27462395
Is low labor cost and dependency on labor in manufacturing sector of emerging economies a key challenge?
Low labor prices in emerging economies such as India, Bangladesh, and Tanzania restricts the adoption of automation across the industries in these countries. The automation of industrial facilities makes little or no economic sense in these countries where abundant cheap labor is readily available. The average daily wages of a semiskilled worker in India is ~USD 8.5. In India, automation in manufacturing facilities is less prevalent than their foreign counterparts, since the cost advantage in labor trade-off with robots is less due to the availability of cheap labor. Moreover, emerging countries such as Bangladesh, Cuba, and Tanzania have approximate average daily wages of USD 0.72, USD 0.4, and USD 0.08, respectively.
The companies in emerging countries are reluctant to invest in automated equipment, such as AGVs, due to the availability of low-cost labors. Various operations in the SMEs in the manufacturing sector of emerging economies are carried out by human labors as the combination of manual efforts with precise and semiautomatic machines proves to be profitable to them.
Growing demand for automation in material-handling across industries
The overall need for high efficiency in automotive, healthcare, e-commerce, and food & beverages industries is increasing the demands for automation. The AGV-enabled automation of industrial facilities can help meet the requirements related to material handling capacity, along with reducing production time, lessening the chances of human errors, enhancing safety, ensuring high production volumes, and increasing accuracy and repeatability.
The use of AGVs enables just-in-time (JIT) delivery of raw material, computerized control of received assembled parts, and tracking of shipped articles. AGV help store, distribute, and transport material without human intervention, thereby ruling out the possibilities of injuries to workers and damage to products. Furthermore, the deployment of AGV enables companies in various industries to apply new technologies that would deliver immediate value and long-term returns. This trend is driving the need for information-enabled systems such as AGVs that can help industries to manage plant assets and make better operational decisions.
Please Explore Relevant Reports:
Automated Storage and Retrieval System Market by Type (Unit Load, Mini Load, VLM, Carousel, Mid Load, Autostore), Function (Assembly, Kitting, Order Picking, Distribution, Storage), Industry, and Geography – Global Forecast to 2024
AGV Software Market by Offering (In-built Vehicle Software and Integrated Software), Industry (Automotive, Manufacturing, Food & Beverages, Aerospace, Healthcare, Logistics, Retail), and Geography – Global Forecast to 2023
About MarketsandMarkets™
MarketsandMarkets™ provides quantified B2B research on 30,000 high growth niche opportunities/threats which will impact 70% to 80% of worldwide companies’ revenues. Currently servicing 7500 customers worldwide including 80% of global Fortune 1000 companies as clients. Almost 75,000 top officers across eight industries worldwide approach MarketsandMarkets™ for their painpoints around revenues decisions.
Our 850 fulltime analyst and SMEs at MarketsandMarkets™ are tracking global high growth markets following the “Growth Engagement Model – GEM”. The GEM aims at proactive collaboration with the clients to identify new opportunities, identify most important customers, write “Attack, avoid and defend” strategies, identify sources of incremental revenues for both the company and its competitors. MarketsandMarkets™ now coming up with 1,500 MicroQuadrants (Positioning top players across leaders, emerging companies, innovators, strategic players) annually in high growth emerging segments. MarketsandMarkets™ is determined to benefit more than 10,000 companies this year for their revenue planning and help them take their innovations/disruptions early to the market by providing them research ahead of the curve.
MarketsandMarkets’s flagship competitive intelligence and market research platform, “Knowledgestore” connects over 200,000 markets and entire value chains for deeper understanding of the unmet insights along with market sizing and forecasts of niche markets.