Source page: McKinsey & Company
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Industrials & Electronics
February 9, 2023 – Industrial companies are expected to invest heavily in robotics and automation, find partner Emily Shao and coauthors. According to the 2022 McKinsey Global Industrial Robotics Survey, automated systems will account for 25 percent of capital spending over the next five years. The robots won’t come for every task, though: while activities such as picking, packing, and sorting will continue to veer toward automation, assembly, stamping, and welding, all of which require high levels of human input, are less likely to be automated.
To read the article, see “Unlocking the industrial potential of robotics and automation,” January 6, 2023.
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Visual form
Horizontal stacked bar ranking chart.
Layout / body structure
The page lists industrial use cases from top to bottom and uses one horizontal bar per use case, segmented by likelihood of automation adoption.
What is being compared
It compares different industrial tasks, from palletization and material handling to welding, stamping, and soldering, based on how likely respondents think automation is in each use case.
Measurement system
The values are percentages of respondents, split across response categories from not applicable or unlikely through likely, highly likely, currently piloting, and already implemented.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each bar is built from several shades that move from darker low-likelihood segments on the left to brighter implemented or highly likely segments on the right. The tasks are sorted so the most automation-ready use cases are at the top and the least automation-ready are at the bottom.
Main takeaway from the visual
Material handling, palletization, and sorting sit at the top of the ranking with the strongest right-side implementation or high-likelihood segments, while assembly, stamping, and welding remain much more constrained by lower-likelihood responses.
Key standout values or extremes
Palletization and packaging reaches 83 percent at the favorable end of the bar, material handling and ground movement 82 percent, and goods receiving and unloading 80 percent. At the lower end, welding and soldering reaches only 28 percent in the favorable categories, while stamping and surface treatment sit around 43 percent.
Controls / sequence, when applicable
This is a static chart image with no in-chart controls to operate.
Companion media, when applicable
There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart image is the full visual on this page.