Machine-builders expecting yearly 2.7% growth until 2016
Behind this average size a broad range of different growth expectations becomes visible. It reaches from a decline in production over stagnation up to growth expectations of more than 50%.
IO-Link has been continuously growing in the German machinery industry since 2007, Quest Trend Magazine reveals
The implementation of IO-Link shows neither an erratic upward development nor a tough stagnation but a continuous, step by step spreading with more and more machine-builders in more and more sectors of the German machinery industry.
Ethernet at packaging machines from 2005 to 2012
Packaging machines belong to the pacesetter of the use of real time Ethernet compared with the total machinery industry. However, the fast pace of using Ethernet will be weakened in the future to 2012.