Global Motion Control Market Is Returning for Solid Growth
全球運動控制市場恢復穩健增長

Following a significant market decline in 2015, the global motion control market regained a concrete growth in 2016, totalling over $10.8 billion hardware revenues, with more than 21 million units shipped. Looking forward, IHS Markit expects the world market for motion control controls to sustain a steady growth trend, registering a 4.4 percent revenue CAGR from 2016 to 2021, reaching nearly $13.4 billion in revenues in 2021.

在2015年市場大幅下滑之后，全球運動控制市場在2016年恢復了實質性增長，總計超過108億美元的硬件收入，出貨量超過2100萬臺。展望未來，IHS Markit預計，全球運動控制市場將保持穩定的增長態勢，從2016年到2021年的復合年增長率為4.4％，2021年的收入約達134億美元。

The GMC and CNC markets had varying performance in 2016. Driven by the growing demands from various end markets, revenues for the global GMC market increased by five percentage points in 2016, to be valued at $6.9 billion. However, the CNC market contracted by 2.9 percent, reaching about $3.9 billion, largely due to sluggish machine tool markets in the United States and Japan. Similar to the impact of the currency fluctuation on the market in 2015, Chinese renminbi devaluation (down 6.6 percent) and Japanese yen appreciation (up 10.1 percent) affected revenues for Asian and Japanese markets, presented in U.S. dollar in the study.

通用運動控制（GMC）和數控（CNC）市場在2016年有不同的表現。隨著各個終端市場不斷增長的需求，2016年全球GMC市場收入上漲了5個百分點，達69億美元。然而，數控市場收縮了2.9％，約為39億美元，主要是由于美國和日本的機床市場疲軟。類似于2015年貨幣波動對市場的影響，中國人民幣貶值（下降6.6％）和日元升值（上漲10.1％）影響了亞洲和日本市場以美元計算的營收。

The performance of downstream industries, in particular the machinery sectors, greatly determines the growth of the motion control market. The machine tools segment (comprising both the metal cutting and metal forming subsectors) was the largest for motion controls globally in 2016 in terms of revenue, totaling more than $4.1 billion. This sector is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 3.8 percent, lower than that of the total global market. As machine tools take a predominant share of downstream industries for CNC market, its slower-than-market-average growth results in the slower growth forecast for CNC products (a revenue CAGR of 4.2%) than GMC products (a 4.5% revenue CAGR). Global robotic revenues are predicted to grow the most, at a 13.3 percent CAGR from 2016 to 2021, displacing packaging machinery to become the second-largest industry for motion controls (with $1.4 billion in revenues in 2021). In addition, various end markets of food and beverages, materials handling, medical equipment, PV equipment and semiconductor machinery are expected to drive increasing demand for motion control products. However, traditional automation sectors including textile machinery, paper and paperboard machinery, printing machinery, rubber & plastics and machinery face various challenges resulting in a slower growth forecast than the market average, over the forecast period.

下游行業，特別是機械行業的表現，極大地決定了運動控制市場的增長。2016年，機床行業（包括金屬切割和金屬成型細分行業）占全球運動控制市場營收最大，總收入超41億美元。該行業預計將以3.8％的年均復合增長率增長，低于全球市場總額。由于機床在數控市場占下游行業的主要份額，其低于市場平均水平的增長導致數控產品（收入年均增幅4.2％）的增長預期較GMC產品（收入年均增幅4.5％）放緩。全球機器人收入預計將增長最多，從2016年到2021年，復合增長率達到13.3％，緊隨其后的是包裝機械行業（2021年收入為14億美元）。此外，食品飲料、物料搬運、醫療器械、光伏設備、半導體機械等終端市場有望推動運動控制產品需求的增長。不過，紡織機械、紙張和紙板機械、印刷機械、橡膠和塑料機械等傳統自動化行業面臨著各種挑戰，導致在預測期內，增長預期低于市場平均水平。