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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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