1、 IMTS 2022:11 KEY TAKEAWAYSCritical Insights for the Industrial&Manufacturing SITMS 2022:11 KEY TAKEAWAYS IMTS 2022 was a very different event compared to IMTS 2018.A rather obvious statement given the intervening COVID-19 years and ongoing macro issues associated with war in Ukraine,energy costs,an

2、d global inflationary pressures.However,the tea leaves our analysts read at the event signal a community that is robust,is beginning to truly embrace digital transformation as a force multiplier,and is setting itself up for a changing world.So,what does that mean in terms of tangibles?There were sev

3、eral clear trends that were evident in most conversations.The most prominent of these was the issue of labor shortages.The overspill from COVID-19 shutdowns and the trend to reshoring means that the biggest risk to productivity in many instances is the availability of skilled workers.This is driving

4、 companies toward technology as a stopgap that could turn permanent.Key technology beneficiaries are the robotics industry in the form of cobots,which were near enough prominent on every other stand at the show,and to a lesser degree the longer-term prospect of Autonomous Mobile Robots(AMRs).At the

5、other end of the scale,it was interesting to see typically conservative industries such as grinding and finishing looking at replacing human capital-intensive low-skilled processes with automated operations.The second major trend seen at the show was that of a more realistic and practical attitude a

6、bout technology implementation.The focus was much more on the quick wins from low-hanging fruit rather than long-term visionary ideas.Limited,targeted implementation built around clearly ring fenced and structured projects with definable Return on Investment(ROI)parameters were very evident with pro