Motion controls market: new insight
Published by Elizabeth Corner,
Senior Editor
World Pipelines,
Shirly Zhu, Analyst, IHS Markit writes that, following a significant market decline in 2015, the global motion control market regained a concrete growth in 2016, totalling over US$10.8 billion hardware revenues, with more than 21 million units shipped.
Looking forward, IHS Markit expects the world market for motion control controls to sustain a steady growth trend, registering a 4.4% revenue CAGR from 2016 to 2021, reaching nearly US$13.4 billion in revenues in 2021.
The GMC and CNC markets had varying performance in 2016. Driven by the growing demands from various end markets, revenues for the global GMC market increased by five percentage points in 2016, to be valued at US$6.9 billion. However, the CNC market contracted by 2.9%, reaching about US$3.9 billion, largely due to sluggish machine tool markets in the US and Japan. Similar to the impact of the currency fluctuation on the market in 2015, Chinese renminbi devaluation (down 6.6%) and Japanese yen appreciation (up 10.1%) affected revenues for Asian and Japanese markets, presented in US dollar in the study.
The performance of downstream industries, in particular the machinery sectors, greatly determines the growth of the motion control market. The machine tools segment (comprising both the metal cutting and metal forming subsectors) was the largest for motion controls globally in 2016 in terms of revenue, totalling more than US$4.1 billion. This sector is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 3.8%, lower than that of the total global market. As machine tools take a predominant share of downstream industries for CNC market, its slower-than-market-average growth results in the slower growth forecast for CNC products (a revenue CAGR of 4.2%) than GMC products (a 4.5% revenue CAGR). Global robotic revenues are predicted to grow the most, at a 13.3% CAGR from 2016 to 2021, displacing packaging machinery to become the second-largest industry for motion controls (with US$1.4 billion in revenues in 2021).
The IHS Markit Motion Control Annual Intelligence Service includes the company’s flagship motion control report product and three market briefs. The flagship motion control report is delivered once a year, with comprehensive and thorough analysis of the global and regional markets for motion controls.
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