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Vision-guided robots are experiencing a rise in demand across the industrial automation market due to their efficiency in completing repetitive tasks,such as bottle handling,bin picking,and tray loading.Numerous benefits,including enhanced traceability,improved efficiency,and high flexibility,have been driving the need for automation in the food&beverage industry over the years.These factors have encouraged food&beverage producers to invest heavily in automated technology integration across their production facilities.For instance,a US-based snack brand,Utz Brands Inc.,announced its plans to integrate automated capabilities across its production plants to reduce its overall operational cost in 2021.Similarly,Hormel Foods is also planning to incorporate automation across its production facilities in 2022.Other food&beverage brands rapidly adopting automated technology include Tyson Foods and ITC.Thus,the rise in investment in automation across the food&beverage industry is fueling the growth of the industrial automation market.

视觉导航机器人在整个工业自动化市场的需求正在上升，因为它们可以高效地完成重复性任务，如瓶子处理、箱柜拣选和托盘装载。多年来，包括增强可追溯性、提高效率和高度灵活性在内的诸多优势推动了食品和饮料行业对自动化的需求。这些因素促使食品和饮料生产商在生产设施的自动化技术集成方面投入巨资。例如，美国零食品牌Utz Brands Inc.宣布计划在2021年整合其生产工厂的自动化能力，以降低其整体运营成本。同样，荷美尔食品公司也计划在2022年实现生产设施的自动化。其他快速采用自动化技术的食品和饮料品牌包括泰森食品和ITC。因此，食品和饮料行业自动化投资的增加推动了工业自动化市场的增长。

The MEA industrial automation market is negatively impacted by the disruption in the supply chain of robotics and related components.The demand for industrial automation solutions such as sensors,robots,and machine vision systems has weakened marginally since the eruption of COVID-19 in the MEA countries.This led to a loss of revenue among the automation solutions manufacturers,distributors,system integrators,and service providers offering their products in the region in 2020.However,as the region showcased a positive trend for adopting automation systems,owing to government containment measures,which propelled the adoption of industrial automation solutions such as robots,sensors,and machine vision systems from 2021.

中东和非洲地区工业自动化市场受到机器人和相关部件供应链中断的负面影响。自新冠在中东和非洲国家爆发以来，对传感器、机器人和机器视觉系统等工业自动化解决方案的需求已略有减弱。这导致了2020年在该地区提供产品的自动化解决方案制造商、分销商、系统集成商和服务提供商的收入损失。然而，由于政府的防疫措施，该地区展示出采用自动化系统的积极趋势，推动了从2021年开始采用机器人、传感器和机器视觉系统等工业自动化解决方案。