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Manual warehouses will one day be a thing of the past – what are the trends in automation?

Warehouse automation is fast becoming the norm rather than a niche. From fixed automation to mobile automation, to piece-picking robotics and software solutions, more and more businesses are adopting new innovations in order to remain competitive.

Our Warehouse Automation report provides the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the market – or browse our range of automation reports for more specific topics.

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Warehouse Automation

Our Warehouse Automation report guarantees to provide the most comprehensive and detailed analysis of the market. To produce the report, we’ve spent months conducting more than 100 in-depth research interviews and analyzed more than 120 companies, looking specifically at their past, present, and future investments in warehouse automation.

Available as a Standard and Premium version.

The premium version contains a mid-year update to adjust forecasts made in the standard version, six months after initial release. It also contains access to product news and financial databases to reduce efforts spent by internal marketing teams in collecting this data themselves. Also included is a Warehouse Automation Services Excel which breaks out the after-sale services and provides forecasts into the different services.

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Warehouse Automation Quarterly Tracker

The warehouse automation market is changing at a rapid pace and it’s more important than ever to remain ahead of the curve. Our Warehouse Automation Quarterly Tracker provides a quarterly snapshot of the market through a quarterly report summarizing the key trends and statistics from the last three months.

This service also provides a wealth of secondary data which would otherwise take months to collect and track internally. For example, financial data for all publicly listed warehouse automation vendors, news articles, and product information tracked from automation vendor’s websites.

This product is also included in the Premium version of our Warehouse Automation report.

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China Warehouse Automation

Behind the US, China is the largest single market for warehouse automation. China has more warehouses than the US, Canada, and Mexico combined, and its labor costs are increasing as China’s workforce is becoming more skilled. Understanding China’s complex and nuanced warehouse automation is a strategic imperative for international system integrators, especially for those looking to enter the market.

This report provides a deep-dive analysis on China’s warehouse automation, providing data, commentary, and insight on policies, technologies, end-users, and domestic automation vendors. We discuss the key end-users and their historic, current, and future investments in automation, major policy trends in China relating to warehouse automation, and the performance of domestic automation vendors and system integrators.

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Warehouse Automation Software

Having established ourselves as the leading the market intelligence provider in the warehouse automation market, we’re expanding our coverage to include warehouse software. Given our expertise in warehouse hardware and robotics, we’re able to provide a unique perspective on how we see the warehouse software landscape develop; especially as it pertains to trends in warehouse automation.

Our latest report provides a deep-dive analysis on the software used to manage and control automation including warehouse control systems (WCS), warehouse execution systems (WES), and robotic orchestration software. We also provide market data on the overall warehouse management system (WMS) market, albeit at a higher level.

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Warehouse Building Stock Database

“Lockdowns and social distancing measures implemented to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic caused a wholesale disruption of traditional brick-and-mortar retail. In less than a year, US e-commerce penetration rose from ~10% of all retail sales in late 2019 to roughly 15% by the end of 2020. With global e-commerce online sales projected to more than double over the next five years, 28,500 warehouses will be added to the global stock. A significant portion of these new warehouses will be direct-to-consumer fulfillment centers necessitating significant labor and automation investments.”

IA’s Warehouse Building Stock Database is the ONLY report on the market that estimates warehouse counts, footprint, sizes, and labor demand as a single, consistent and global dataset. We’ve consolidated and analyzed data points from government sources, public company filings, and industry sources into a model that provides detailed and credible warehouse estimates – all regularly updated to incorporate new information, outlooks, and segmentations.

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Micro-Fulfillment Centers

Over the years, we’ve developed and refined our view of what micro-fulfillment is and how to define it. We’ve come to the conclusion that micro-fulfillment is less about the size of the facility, but rather more about the radius of delivery. As such, the scope of this report is constrained by delivery radius, rather than facility size.

Whilst the report looks at all forms of micro-fulfillment (both manual and automated), the main focus will still be on automated micro-fulfillment centers.

In addition to providing wealth of granular market data, this report will also explore what the biggest barriers limiting the uptake of micro-fulfillment centers, along with the key attributes that retailers are looking for when selecting an automation partner.

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Robotic Picking

As labor availability continues to plague warehouses across the world, we’re seeing more and more companies relying on automation. Coupled with the developments in machine vision and gripping technology, we’ve seen the proliferation of picking robots used in warehouses.
This report aims to provide clarity and visibility into the fast moving picking robot market.

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Mobile Robots

The 6th edition of the well respected Interact Analysis market report providing insight and analysis into the mobile robot industry. The report is focused on material handling applications in manufacturing and logistics environments, which accounts for the bulk of AGV & AMR revenues.

The Premium version of this report provides ‘tertiary-level analysis’ which models demand for mobile robots by country.

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Mobile Robots Customer Survey

Interact Analysis has been analyzing the mobile robot industry for over 7 years, providing a detailed assessment of the project for the market.

Whilst previous off-the-shelf reports have focused on providing market sizing and forecast data, this new survey is intended to give more insight into the views of potential buyers.

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