Warehouse automation market to return to progress in 2024, says Work together Evaluation

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Following a slowdown in revenues in 2023, the worldwide warehouse automation market may expertise some progress in 2024 and return to excessive progress in 2025. | Credit score: Work together Evaluation

Based on a current research performed by market intelligence agency Work together Evaluation, the demand for warehouse automation will begin to improve once more in 2024 following a difficult yr in 2023, albeit at a minimal progress charge.

Work together Evaluation additionally projected that revenues from warehouse automation will rise in 2024 and subsequently expertise a resurgence in double-digit progress charges beginning in 2025.

As a result of pandemic and traditionally low rates of interest in 2019 and 2020, there was a notable rise in e-commerce orders, it stated. This, in flip, resulted in a surge within the building of warehouses and a upswing in gross sales of warehouse automation.

Warehouses to beat post-pandemic e-commerce stoop

Since then, a deceleration of e-commerce gross sales and the rise in rates of interest has led to a lower in warehouse building and a slowdown in investments in warehouse automation, reported Work together Evaluation. The order consumption for fastened automation is projected to lower by roughly 8% in 2023.

Nevertheless, the order consumption for cell automation is anticipated to extend by 38% throughout the identical interval. This serves as a safeguard towards the general market decline, famous the market analysis agency.

The deceleration is primarily affecting vertical markets which have vital reliance on e-commerce, equivalent to basic merchandise, grocery, and attire. These are generally often called downstream verticals due to their place within the provide chain, nearer to the patron.

Conversely, industries equivalent to sturdy manufacturing have proven comparatively sturdy efficiency because of the growing choice for near-shoring and the development of factories within the U.S. and Europe. Work together Evaluation projected that the sturdy manufacturing sector will expertise the very best progress in warehouse automation amongst all vertical markets in 2023, with a income improve of 6%.

“The rise and fall of warehouse building has led to a corresponding improve and reduce of end-to-end warehouse automation options,” commented Rueben Scriven, analysis supervisor at Work together Evaluation. “Greenfield websites are nicely fitted to giant and complicated end-to-end options, whereas brownfield websites are higher suited to smaller level options that automate explicit workflows, equivalent to cell robots.”

“As a result of the share of brownfield websites has now elevated, the share of level options (relative to end-to-end options) has additionally elevated,” he wrote. “Subsequently, automation distributors that may present options for brownfield websites and distribution heart automation initiatives will fare nicely within the brief time period.”

Scriven went on to say: “Though we anticipate rates of interest to stay excessive subsequent yr, warehouse building will improve and end in an uptick in warehouse automation order consumption within the latter half of 2024 and into 2025.”

In Could, Scriven predicted that 26% of warehouses could be automated by 2027, a rise from 14% a decade earlier.

Work together Evaluation gives methodology

Work together Evaluation stated the fifth version of the Warehouse Automation report “gives a complete and detailed evaluation of the market.” The market analysis agency spent months conducting greater than 100 interviews and analyzed greater than 120 firms. It stated it seemed particularly at their previous, current, and future investments in warehouse automation.

The report is accessible in an ordinary and a premium model. The premium model incorporates a midyear replace to regulate forecasts made in the usual model, six months after preliminary launch. It additionally incorporates entry to product information and monetary databases to scale back efforts spent by inner advertising and marketing groups in gathering this information themselves.

Additionally included is a “Warehouse Automation Companies” Excel sheet, which breaks out the after-sale companies and gives forecasts for the totally different companies.

Work together Evaluation additionally not too long ago launched a report on software program together with warehouse management techniques (WCS) and warehouse execution techniques (WES) in 2024. It additionally predicted that the marketplace for robotic choosing will develop to $6.8 billion by 2030.