Automation

In 2008-2009 automation has had,  in conjunction with the great global crisis, a sharp drop in companies as well as in investments.
Automating means to invest, investing means to believe in a development of our own company and business.
During 2009 we saw an investment stop due to banks and credit, practically limited to a few people, which has eliminated the investment of large sums of money from companies in an internal renewal or just maintenance, crisis that has obviously touched the industrial automation sector too.
2010 has however seen an increase in investment by companies, which has come together with an increase of confidence by banks and primarily by consumers who have begun to spend. Automation in fact has seen an increase of + 3.3% , which unfortunately, was lower than the required 6% forecast by market and industry studies, but still growing however.
Surely 2011 will be more  lucky: the market study  conducted last year by the association of machine tool manufacturers in fact foresee a projected increase of 9% , also driven by Chinese market and the emerging Asian countries that have seen an unstoppable race last year.
Asian companies increasingly need the quality of products from countries like Italy and in general all over Europe. It seems that most of the requirements arrived from emerging or European companies and that they have begun to invest just in that part of the continent .
We must therefore look very forward to see the future of automation , analyzing the performance of the economy in general and understanding when and how companies will invest.