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Opening photo: Graco’s solution for paint booth automation involves creating a fully and easy integratable, completely automatic paint application system.
INNOVATIONS: PRESENT&FUTURE
Why Automate your Paint Booth? Bart Clerx Graco, Belgium
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bart.clerx@graco.com
utomating a paint booth leads to
American automation market over the first
same period last year. The hottest industries
quality improvements, increased
nine months of 2017; a good indicator of the
were metals (54%), automotive components
productivity and streamlined
global state of the industry. According to the
(42%), and food & consumer goods (21%).
operations.
Association for Advancing Automation, robotics,
Record order levels were also recorded in
Automation is an express train that shows no
machine vision, and motion control segments
motion control & motors (up 10%) and in
sign of stopping, nor even reducing speed.
are at the highest levels of growth ever.
vision and imaging (up 14%). Globally, it is now
More and more production processes all over
In the area of robotics, orders valued at nearly
the eighth year in a row that industrial robot
the world are hopping on board.
$1.5 billion were sold in North America. This
sales have grown and prospects for 2018 and
Let’s look at the performance of the North
represents growth of 14% in units over the
beyond look promising.
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N. 51 - MAY/JUNE 2018 - international PAINT&COATING magazine
