2021 Survey Results on Discrete Manufacturing Automation Trends

Automation World performed an industry survey of automation technology suppliers to ask how their customers have been reacting to the ongoing Covid-19 disruptions. The findings of the survey are set to appear in four issues focused on discrete manufacturing, batch manufacturing, continuous processing, and a final article comparing trends across all three segments. The category receiving the highest number of respondents expecting an increase in spending was “data acquisition and analytics” (91%). That bodes well for companies like AEC Engineering! Interestingly the category of “augmented reality” was expected to decline in spending. So much for our bold prediction in our story on AR. Check out the full article for the results.