Robotics in Packaging - Thematic Intelligence
Summary
Robotics can automate areas of a packaging business that would otherwise be un-automatable. This report identifies which types of robots packaging companies should be investing in and how robots can help resolve the major challenges facing the packaging industry. It also identifies the top adopters and vendors of robotics in the packaging sector.
Robotics is the branch of technology that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots. Innovations in robotics enable more areas of the packaging industry to be automated. For example, the assembly of packaging products such as boxes, cartons, and cans typically can be (and historically has been) automated using non-autonomous machines that execute a set of pre-determined motions and tasks. Robots can automate these and more complicated tasks, such as equipment maintenance and warehousing, because they can sense the environment in which they operate and react.
Scope
- Caged industrial robots, industrial co-bots, inspection, cleaning, and maintenance robots, and logistics robots are the types of robot with the most relevance to the packaging sector.
- Robots can be expensive investments for packaging companies. To maximize efficiencies, robots need to be integrated throughout packaging lines, and multiple cells must be able to communicate with each other for optimized coordination.
- The robotics industry was worth $45.3 billion in 2020. By 2030, it will have grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 29% to $568.1 billion, according to GlobalData forecasts.
- Understand the robotics theme in the packaging marketplace
- Understand multiple trends and company responses in order to tap into what is really impacting the industry.
- Access valuable strategic take-outs to help direct future decision-making and inform new product development.
- Executive Summary
- Robotics Value Chain
- Key players in the robotics value chain
- Robot manufacturing
- Caged industrial robots
- Industrial co-bots
- Logistics robots (excluding drones)
- Medical robots
- Exoskeletons
- Consumer robots
- Drones
- Inspection, cleaning, and maintenance robots
- Field robots
- Defense and security robots (excluding drones)
- Hardware components
- Precision mechanical parts
- Semiconductors
- Software components
- Robotic intelligence
- Robotics as a service
- Cloud robotics
- Packaging Challenges
- The Impact of Robotics on Packaging
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of supply chains
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of quality control
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of ESG
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of COVID-19
- How robotics helps resolve the challenge of handling new materials
- Case Studies
- Gecko Robotics provides robotic maintenance services to a Georgian paper mill
- Stora Enso uses drones to monitor the impact of pests on its Finnish forestry assets
- DS Smith automates warehousing at its Kemsley paper mill with AGVs
- Data Analysis
- Market size and growth forecasts
- An increasingly varied landscape
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Patent trends
- Company filings trends
- Hiring trends
- Social media trends
- Robotics timeline
- Companies
- Leading robotics adopters in packaging
- Leading robotics vendors
- Specialist robotics vendors in packaging
- Sector Scorecard
- Packaging sector scorecard
- Who’s who
- Thematic screen
- Valuation screen
- Risk screen
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- GlobalData reports
- Our thematic research methodology
- About GlobalData
- Contact Us
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Key challenges facing the packaging sector
- Table 2: Mergers and acquisitions
- Table 3: Leading robotics adopters in packaging
- Table 4: Leading robotics vendors
- Table 5: Specialist robotics vendors in packaging
- Table 6: Glossary
- Table 7: GlobalData reports
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: Key players in the robotics value chain
- Figure 2: The robotics value chain
- Figure 3: Caged industrial robots
- Figure 4: Industrial co-bots
- Figure 5: Logistics robots (excluding drones)
- Figure 6: Medical robots
- Figure 7: Exoskeletons
- Figure 8: Consumer robots
- Figure 9: Drones
- Figure 10: Inspection, cleaning, and maintenance robots
- Figure 11: Field robots
- Figure 12: Defense and security robots (excluding drones)
- Figure 13: Precision mechanical parts
- Figure 14: Semiconductors
- Figure 15: Robotic intelligence
- Figure 16: Cloud robotics
- Figure 17: Hot topics in packaging company filings’ mentions of robotics
- Figure 18: Thematic impact assessment
- Figure 19: Gecko’s digital map of an inspected asset
- Figure 20: Map identifying trees in which trees spruce bark beetles were present
- Figure 21: A Rocla AGV handling paper reels in Kemsley
- Figure 22: The robotics market will grow at a CAGR of 29% between 2020 and 2030
- Figure 23: The robotics market will grow at a CAGR of 29% between 2020 and 2030
- Figure 24: New robotic systems tackle many issues facing packaging companies, from ecommerce sustainability
- Figure 25: A worsening global economic landscape in 2022 has diverted boardroom attention
- Figure 26: Autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) are a go-to robotic product for packaging companies
- Figure 27: Robotics-related hiring in the packaging industry is accelerating
- Figure 28: Since 2019, the interest social media has taken in robotics in packaging has grown significantly
- Figure 29: The robotics story
- Figure 30: Who does what in the packaging space?
- Figure 31: Thematic screen
- Figure 32: Valuation screen
- Figure 33: Risk screen
- Figure 34: Our five-step approach for generating a sector scorecard
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