Record Robot Sales in North America So Far for 2016

The robot­ic indus­try is becom­ing wide­ly inno­v­a­tive, pro­duc­ing con­sis­tent and qual­i­ty prod­ucts, and giv­ing com­pa­nies a com­pet­i­tive advan­tage for a wide vari­ety of appli­ca­tions across the world. It is not too late to inte­grate indus­tri­al robot­ics; in fact, there is no bet­ter time, than now!

The proof is in the North Amer­i­can sales sta­tis­tics; it is esti­mat­ed that 2016 will go down in the books for record break­ing robot orders and ship­ments in North Amer­i­ca. Over­all, North Amer­i­can com­pa­nies have ordered a val­ue of $1.3 bil­lion robots (around 23,985 robots) just in the first nine months of 2016! This is a 7% increase in units and 3% increase in dol­lars when com­pared to 2015, which held the pre­vi­ous record. Accord­ing to RIA, there are around 269,000 robots in North Amer­i­can fac­to­ries, third to Japan and China. 

RIA states that these record sales were dri­ven by the strong demand from auto­mo­tive OEMs and com­po­nent sup­pli­ers. In this indus­try alone, robot orders were up 14% before the year’s end. In addi­tion, the food and con­sumer foods indus­try con­tin­ues to increase by an aston­ish­ing 40%, every year.

Anoth­er big indi­ca­tor of the ris­ing inter­est in robot­ics is the growth seen in the mem­ber­ship of RIA and their net­work­ing events. Mem­ber­ships are up around the globe and there was record atten­dance, by com­pa­nies of all sizes and inter­ests, at the Nation­al Robot Safe­ty con­fer­ence and Inter­na­tion­al Col­lab­o­ra­tive Robots Workshop. 

RIA is look­ing for­ward to record atten­dance at the Auto­mate 2017 trade show in Chica­go, already esti­mat­ing a 20% increase than the one in 2015. This tradeshow is also expect­ed to include small and medi­um sized com­pa­nies who are begin­ning to real­ize the ben­e­fits and fur­ther explore their automa­tion options as things become more afford­able. Check out the Auto­mate 2017 show here.

It is now appar­ent that this world is aware and eager to learn more about all of the ben­e­fits automa­tion has to offer. It seems as if a wide range of man­u­fac­tur­ers con­tin­ue to be very inter­est­ed in keep­ing up with and learn­ing about the lat­est inno­va­tions that are con­tin­u­ing to expand, world­wide. Up is the only way to go from here; when a man­u­fac­tur­er inte­grates indus­tri­al robots they instant­ly add cre­ativ­i­ty, incred­i­ble prod­uct qual­i­ty, and high speeds to their prod­uct line. 

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