Industrial Automation- Market Report Bin Picking

• Publication date: June 2010

Bin Picking is one of the applications in industrial automation still offering great potential for efficiency increase in production and material handling in many industries Especially in difficult market situations, like the one we are experiencing since the beginning of the financial crisis, manufacturers of goods as well as the whole automation market are looking for new or additional possibilities to open up efficiency and cost reduction p...

Bin Picking is one of the applications in industrial automation still offering great potential for efficiency increase in production and material handling in many industries
Especially in difficult market situations, like the one we are experiencing since the beginning of the financial crisis, manufacturers of goods as well as the whole automation market are looking for new or additional possibilities to open up efficiency and cost reduction potentials by introducing process automation. This might be one of the reasons for the recently increased interest in the application of “Bin Picking”, the automated unloading of unsorted parts from transport boxes.
Now, a comprehensive market report on this topic is available for the first time ever. By interviewing both, suppliers and users in many different industries, such as Aerospace, Automotive, Food & Packaging, Foundry, Logistics, Medical Engineering, and Pharmaceuticals the compilation of an extensive survey of the market was achieved. The market report “Bin Picking” provides an in-depth insight into customer requirements, technologies, products, and turnkey solutions. The report presents information about turnkey suppliers, system integrators and product and component manufacturers out of Europe and North America.
The report includes information about the automation industry and technology leading companies such as, e.g., ABB Robotics, Adept Technology, Cognex, Denso Robotics, Inos Automation, Sick, Motoman Robotics, MVTech and Tordivel. Over 40 companies focused on bin picking and related applications are covered by the report.
Data comprised in the report has been mainly generated by direct interviews conducted with the companies. In order to have a very comprehensive overview the results of additional research in a variety of sources like internet, trade shows, presentations, publications and conferences has been included.

Industrial Equipment Industry

Table of Content
Executive Summary
Market needs
Technologies used
Turnkey Concepts
Market Overview by industries
Market overview by suppliers
Supplier overviews
• by region
• Technologies
• Core competences
Appendix with
• Company contact data
• Product- and application descriptions and press releases

Companies mentioned
ABB Robotics, Adept Technology, Cognex Corp., Denso Robotics, Fraunhofer, INOS Automation, Sick AG, Motoman Robotics, MVTech, Tordivel AS