Manufacturing Fun Facts

General Manufacturing Facts

• The average car requires 30,000 parts
• The average plane requires 6 million parts
• The top 10 manufacturing countries are:
  China, US, Japan, Germany, India, South Korea, Russia, Italy, Mexico and France in 2024
• 97.9 billion worth of machine tools were purchased in 2024
• 19.9 billion worth of industrial robots were purchased in 2024
• 3.4 billion worth of CMM machines were purchased in 2024
• Global CNC machine market size to reach 150+ billion by 2030

United States Manufacturing Facts

• The US is the world's second largest manufacturer
• The number of manufacturing businesses has grown by 3.8% annually
• US Manufacturing is responsible for nearly half of all US exports
• There are 605,548 manufacturing companies in the US as of 2024
• 79.2 billion worth of machine tools were purchased in 2023
• 10% of the US GDP is driven by manufacturing in 2024
• 52.9% of all private sector R&D is driven by manufacturers in 2023
• If US Manufacturing was its own economy, it would be the 8th largest in the world
• For every $1 spent in manufacturing another $2.60 is added to the overall economy
• There are 12.77 million manufacturing workers in the US
• 4.6 million manufacturing jobs will be needed over the next 10 years
• 10.6 million motor vehicles were produced in the US in 2024
• Foreign investment in US manufacturing was 2.2 trillion in 2023

European Manufacturing Facts

• 23.8% of Europe's GDP is driven by manufacturing
• 27.6 billion worth of machine tools were purchased in 2024
• 14.7% of the EU GDP is driven by manufacturing in 2024
• There are 31+ million manufacturing workers in Europe as of 2024
• There are 2.1 million manufacturing companies in Europe as of 2024
• 17.2 million motor vehicles were produced in Europe in 2024

China Manufacturing Facts

• China is the world's largest manufacturer
• There are 2,801,143 factories in China
• 30.1% of China's GDP is driven by manufacturing in 2024
• 28.8 billion worth of machine tools were purchased in 2018
• There are 120 million manufacturing workers in China
• 72% of the world's computers are made in China
• 80% of the world's air conditioners are made in China
• 70% of the world's cell phones are made in China
• 60% of the world's shoes are made in China
• 31.3 million motor vehicles were produced in China in 2024

Manufacturing IT History

• 1949 - The first NC, Numerical Control, machine was invented
• 1952 - 1D bar codes were invented
• 1952 - The first CNC, Computer Numerical Control, machine was invented
• 1956 - The APT, Automatically Programmed Tool, language was invented by Douglas Ross
• 1957 - CAD/CAM software was invented by Patrick Hanratty
• 1959 - The first CMM, Coordinate Measuring Machine, was invented
• 1960 - RS232 was first used to connect modems and teletypewriters
• 1962 - The first industrial robot was first developed at Unimation
• 1972 - C was invented by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs
• 1973 - Ethernet was invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
• 1973 - RFID was invented
• 1979 - C++ was invented by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs
• 1980 - IGES, Initial Graphics Exchange Specification, was first published
• 1981 - PC, Personal Computer, was first released by IBM
• 1981 - MSDOS was first released by Microsoft
• 1982 - DXF, Drawing Exchange Format, was released by Autodesk
• 1983 - The first 3D printer (SLA) was invented by Charles Hull
• 1985 - Microsoft released the first version of Windows
• 1987 - 2D bar codes were invented at Intermed
• 1988 - RS485 was invented
• 1992 - OpenGL was invented by SGI
• 1993 - Microsoft released the first version of Windows Server
• 1993 - HTML was developed by Tim Berners-Lee
• 1994 - QR codes were invented at Denso Wave
• 1994 - STEP, Standard for the Exchange of Product Model Data, was first released
• 1996 - OPC DA, Data Access, was first released
• 1996 - Cobots were invented
• 1997 - WiFi was invented by the 802.11 committee
• 1998 - XML, Extensible Markup Language, was first released by the W3C
• 2001 - JSON, JavaScript Object Notation, was developed by Douglas Crockford and Chip Morningstar
• 2006 - OPC UA, Unified Architechture, was released by the OPC Foundation
• 2008 - MTConnect was released by AMT

Predator Software is committed to supporting all of the above manufacturing technologies all these years later ;-)