The customers of the automation sectors start to place orders again with the manufacturers of robotics, assembly and vision technologies. In order to facilitate the search for a matching supplier of automation products the Robotics+Automation division within the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) published a new edition of the Key to the Market.  

07.10.2010 - The producers of industrial machine vision, assembly and handling technologies and robotics will see turnover figures increase in 2010 by 14 per cent to € 7.1 billion. "The steady recovery of orders received since the beginning of this year enables us to raise our forecast for this year's turnover significantly", Dr Michael Wenzel, Chairman of VDMA Robotics + Automation, explains the current trend on the side-lines of a board meeting of the association on 7 October 2010 in Munich, Germany. And: "We expect our industry to further grow in 2011, presumably in the region of 10 per cent."