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Commercial and Industrial Machine Vision
Market Data | 4Q 2025 | MD-CIMVR-102
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- Manufacturing camera system shipments are forecast to increase from 5.8 million units in 2024 to 9.8 million units by 2031, indicating long-term growth despite near-term softness.
- Production-related use cases remain the primary driver, accounting for around 60% of total camera shipments in 2025, with security-related applications making up the remainder.
- A downturn in manufacturing investment has reduced demand for production cameras, particularly in industrial markets such as Germany, impacting vendors including Cognex, Basler, and IDS.
- Macroeconomic uncertainty and cyclical weakness have weighed most heavily on European machine vision suppliers.
- To offset slowing manufacturing demand, camera vendors are increasingly targeting mission-critical verticals such as healthcare, transport and logistics, and robotics where premium systems remain in demand.
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