Category: COVID-19

COVID-19 Shows Us The Benefits Of Clean Air – This Will Lead To A Boom In EV And Ultimately To A Green Manufacturing Renaissance
OVERVIEW COVID-19 has taught us all an important lesson about the environment. Nature recovers quickly. As human populations across the globe endured lockdown, with widespread...

The Economic Landscape in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Prospects for Some Key Sectors
Our Research Methods The traditional approach of Interact Analysis’s Manufacturing Industry Output (MIO) tracker has been to use a wide spectrum of historical data to...

COVID-19 To Reduce 2020 Industrial Robot Revenue By >8%, Followed By A Rapid Growth To Return From 2021
After a weak 2019, we originally expected the 2020 robot market to recover strongly, but COVID-19 changed the market revenue growth forecast from 4.8% to...

COVID-19: Motion Control Market Being Hit Hard, But CNC To Fare Far Worse Than GMC
In November 2019, Interact Analysis published its report which analysed prospects for the motion control market. This report gave reasons for optimism within the sector,...

The Rise of Ocado: An In-depth Assessment of the Grocery Warehouse Automation Market
“During the gold rush it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business” – Mark Twain COVID-19 is causing a seismic shift in the...

$6bn Could Be Wiped From Warehouse Automation Market in 2020 by COVID-19, But Net Gains in Long Run
Warehouse automation revenues could take a major hit in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to our recent research. Our latest analysis...

COVID-19 Will Eliminate $0.5bn Mobile Robot Revenues in 2020, but Market Predicted to Nearly Double in 2021
Delays in both new project signoffs and also project commissioning due to social distancing measures will eliminate $450m of AGV & AMR revenues that could...

COVID-19 – How Much Will Manufacturing Output Contract in 2020?
After an exhaustive effort, we have finalized our assessment of the impact COVID-19 has had on manufacturing output around the world. In this insight I...

COVID-19: Changing the Face of Retail and Fulfilment Automation Strategies
The internet has most likely never been more important to us in our daily lives than it has during the COVID-19 lockdown. For many of...