Everyone seems to be buzzing about automation these days, and for good reason; automation has a variety of benefits, from making manufacturing processes more efficient, to significantly reducing labor costs. Today, automation is no longer limited to industrial sectors, and has made its way into non-industrial sectors such as the food and beverage industry. In the past few years, automation has undergone a major shift, which can primarily be attributed to technological advancements, specifically in the field of robotics. As these sorts of developments continue to emerge and improve, the breadth of automation and its usage is sure to expand.

In this blog, we provide the top vendors from three markets within the automation industry, as identified by analysts at Technavio.
 

Motors and Drives Services

ABB

ABB is a pioneering technology leader that is writing the future of industrial digitalization. For more than four decades, the company has been at the forefront, innovating digitally connected and enabled industrial equipment and systems. ABB focuses on driving efficiency, safety and productivity in utilities, industry, transport and infrastructure globally. With a heritage spanning more than 130 years, ABB operates in more than 100 countries and employs around 135,000 people.
 

Danfoss

Danfoss is a global producer of products and services used in areas such as cooling food, air conditioning, heating buildings, controlling electric motors, compressors, drives and powering mobile machinery. The company is also active in the field of solar and wind power as well as district heating and cooling infrastructure that targets entire cities and urban communities. Danfoss employs approximately 24,000 people worldwide.
 

Emerson Electric

Emerson Electric Co., founded in 1890, provides solutions for industrial, commercial and consumer markets around the world. The company operates through five business segments: Process Management, Industrial Automation, Network Power, Climate Technologies, and Commercial & Residential Solutions. The Industrial Automation segment provides integrated manufacturing solutions to its customers at the source of manufacturing their own products.
 

Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation provides integrated systems, industrial automation control, power, and information solutions for process manufacturing. The wide range of industries it serves includes F&B, transportation, oil and gas, metals, mining, and life sciences.
 

Siemens

Siemens AG is a German company and the largest engineering company in Europe. The main divisions of the company are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities. Siemens is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which is its second-most profitable unit after the industrial automation division. Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 362,000 people worldwide.

Industrial Control Systems Security

Cisco

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in California, that develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other high-technology services and products. Through its numerous acquired subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, Cisco Meraki, and Cisco Jasper, Cisco specializes into specific tech markets, such as Internet of Things (IoT), domain security, and energy management.
 

Fortinet

Fortinet, headquartered in California with offices around the globe, provides top-rated network and content security, as well as secure access products that share intelligence and work together to form a cooperative fabric. Its flagship enterprise firewall platform, FortiGate, is available in a wide range of sizes and form factors to fit any environment.
 

Kaspersky

Kaspersky Lab is an international software security group operating in almost 200 countries and territories worldwide. The company is headquartered in Russia, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom. Kaspersky Lab employs over 2,850 qualified specialists. It has 31 representative territory offices in 30 countries and its products and technologies provide service for over 300 million users and over 250,000 corporate clients worldwide. The company is specially focused on large enterprises, and small-medium businesses.
 

Symantec

Symantec Corporation is an American technology company headquartered in California. Symantec provides security products and solutions to protect small, medium, and enterprise businesses from advanced threats, malware, and other cyber security issues. Symantec serves millions of individual and corporate customers in over 48 countries worldwide.

SMT Placement Equipment Market

ASMPT

ASM Pacific Technoloy Ltd., founded in 1975, is the world’s largest Assembly and packaging equipment supplier for the semiconductor and LED industries. The company manufactures semiconductor assembly equipment and materials used by multinational chip manufacturers, independent IC assembly houses and consumer electronics manufacturers.
 

Kulicke & Soffa

Kulicke & Soffa is a leading provider of semiconductor packaging and electronic assembly solutions supporting the global automotive, consumer, communications, computing and industrial segments. As a pioneer in the semiconductor space, K&S has provided customers with market leading packaging solutions for decades. Assembléon, part of the K&S team, provides assembly equipment, processes and services for the backend semiconductor market.
 

Fuji

FUJI MACHINE MFG. CO., LTD. is a Japan-based company involved in the manufacture and sale of electronic part assembly machinery and machine tools. The company operates in three business segments. The Electronic Part Assembly Machinery segment manufactures and sells automated placement equipment for electronic parts. The Machine Tool segment manufactures and sells specialty machinery and automated lathes. The Other segment is involved in the manufacture and sale of control devices, as well as the contract production of electronic circuit boards and the development of software.
 

Juki

Juki Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer of industrial sewing machines and recently domestic machines headquartered in Tokyo. It is one of the leading industrial machine manufacturers. Juki Automation Systems (JAS) is responsible for the direct sales and service of Juki Corporation's SMT assembly machine business in North and South America. Juki machines are manufactured exclusively in Japan and have a reputation for high quality and reliability. Juki is the pioneer of the modular assembly line which it introduced to the market in 1993.
 

Panasonic

Panasonic Corporation, formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., is a Japanese multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Japan. The company has grown to become one of the largest Japanese electronics producers alongside Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba and Canon Inc.. In addition to electronics, it offers non-electronic products and services such as home renovation services.
 

Yamaha

Yamaha Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate based in Japan with a very wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, electronics, motorcycles and power sports equipment. This includes a range of SMT assembly systems and services, which are provided through its industrial machinery and robots segment.

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