Key Trends at ProMat & Automate 2019
Last week’s ProMat and Automate shows in Chicago saw more than 60,000 attendees and 1,500 exhibitors descend on Chicago for the co-located events covering supply...
ProMat & Automate 2019 Highlight Unstoppable March of Mobile Robots
For the past few years, ProMat has been one of the leading supply chain industry events, and last week’s event did not disappoint. Co-located with...
Powertrain Electrification Isn’t The Only Way to Lower Commercial Vehicle Emissions
Much focus, rightly so, is given to the full electrification of commercial vehicles. It’s a dramatic shift in a very mature, conservative global market. However,...
What Impact Will China’s 2019 New Energy Vehicle (NEV) Subsidy Policy Have?
On March 26th, China’s four ministries and commissions jointly issued the “Notice on Further Perfecting the Policy of Financial Subsidies for the Promotion and Application...
Is Off-Highway & Marine Fuelling Hydrogen Adoption for Heavy Commercial Vehicles?
Raising $205m in an oversubscribed series C funding round last year, Nikola Motors has become somewhat of a poster child for the fuel cell commercial...
Industrial Controls & Remote I/O – A focus on the PLC market
The most important factor driving demand for PLCs is the continued growth in machine building sectors and manufacturing in general. Despite some futurists predicting their...
Insight Into the Swedish Market for Low Voltage AC Drives
Our recently published LV motor drive research comprises unprecedented country-level detail. To showcase this capability, we decided to examine the market for LV drives within...
20,000 Autonomous Mobile Robots Shipped in 2018
The results of our freshly released quarterly mobile robot market tracker show that AMR demand continued to surge in Q4, and that more than 20,000...
Massive Investment in Autonomous Trucks Hides Worrying Challenge
2019 has already witnessed a flood of investment (over $1.5bn) into autonomous trucking and delivery companies, with more to follow into similar start-ups and established...