European machine vision industry in positive mood for 2013

A poll carried out by the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) reveals that machine vision companies have overall positive business expectations for 2013 business in Europe. In a quick survey conducted by the association in October, 56 per cent of the participants expect their own business to grow above five per cent next year, and another 13.3 per cent think their sales will increase up to five per cent. Only eight per cent of the participants expect their company’s business to decline in 2013. Asked
November 16, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
A poll carried out by the 6855 European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) reveals that machine vision companies have overall positive business expectations for 2013 business in Europe. In a quick survey conducted by the association in October, 56 per cent of the participants expect their own business to grow above five per cent next year, and another 13.3 per cent think their sales will increase up to five per cent. Only eight per cent of the participants expect their company’s business to decline in 2013.

Asked about the development of the entire European machine vision industry, 53.3 per cent of the participating companies said that they expect total sales to increase next year. More than a third of the companies expect 2013 to be a flat year for total turnover of machine vision and 12 percent of the participants think total turnover will decline next year.  The overall perception of industry performance 2013 is even better than it is for the current year 2012.

Regarding turnover of the various product types, 64 percent of all participants think that business of application-specific and configurable vision systems will go up in 2013, only eight per cent believe it will be flat or reducing. Interestingly, smart cameras, compact systems and vision systems – which were supposed to grow over average in recent years due to their ever increasing price/performance ratio – are expected to see positive business development next year at a lesser rate of only 53.3 per cent. However, this is still the majority, and only eight per cent of participants believe that sales will decline here in 2013.

In the vision components product category, sales of cameras are seen to grow in 2013 by a majority of 53.3 per cent of the participants. 21.3 per cent expect the camera business to be flat compared to 2012; and a minority of 6.7 percent expect total turnover of cameras to decline next year.
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