LDV Insights'2019: Visual Tech in Manufacturing & Logistics — LDV Capital

Insights 2019

LDV Capital 2019 Insights Report: Manufacturing & Logistics.

Through 2025 visual technologies will enable vast new opportunities across seven stages of manufacturing and logistics.

LDV Capital Insights 2019

Visual Technologies Enable a Bright Future for Manufacturing & Logistics

This market analysis through 2025 examines visual technologies across seven stages of manufacturing and logistics and identifies the critical nature of computer vision, autonomy, and light and vision-based data on the future of industry.

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Visual sensors combined with computer vision and deep learning breakthroughs are powering a new generation of technologies that are perceptive, intelligent, affordable, and easier than ever to deploy. Together, they will increase profits across manufacturing and logistics by improving speed and flexibility, while lowering costs.

By 2025, manufacturing and logistics companies will need to rapidly adopt visual technologies in order to manage the mounting pressures of globalization, purchasing demands, and changing labor forces. Various applications of visual technologies, including cameras, computer vision, lidar, and more, are a light at the end of the tunnel for a pair industries that have longed searched for a way to regain their prominence.

Visual technology is set to have a tremendous impact on all of manufacturing and logistics — it will improve quality, safety, and convenience, as well as cut costs imparted on companies, people, and the environment.

This 20 page report is the third of a multi-phased market analysis of the visual technology ecosystem by LDV Capital. Key findings and trends include:

Manufacturing and logistics companies will employ visual tech to improve profitability
The time is now for vision-enabled autonomous robots in manufacturing and logistics
R&D is be driven by consumers’ visual data
Revolutionary materials will be produced with vision and light-based manufacturing
The production of higher-quality goods at lower cost through vision-based quality assurance
Computer vision to optimize first mile workflows
21X growth in warehouses with autonomous, vision-enabled robots
Vision is driving adoption of robots and drones for last mile delivery
Visual sensors and computer vision can turn returns and waste into profit

We look forward to hearing your insights, learning about your startups, and reading your research papers on how businesses are addressing these challenges and opportunities.

Authors:

Evan Nisselson, General Partner
Abigail Hunter-Syed, Former Partner
Jorge Colindres, Summer Analyst

Special thanks go out to the following individuals for sharing their insights and expertise with LDV Capital for the research behind this report:

Justin Ahmad, Partner and Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group
Vikas Dua, COO at Ocrolus
Anna Mason, Partner at Rise of the Rest
Pénélope Romand-Monnier, Associate & Community Director at Hardware Club
Dr. Devin Balkcom, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Co-Director of The Reality & Robotics Lab at Dartmouth College
Noah Eisenbruch, Co-Founder, CTO at Augmented Review
Charles-Edouard Monroe, Co-Founder & CEO at Augmented Review
Santosh Sankar, Partner at Dynamo Ventures
Brian Ballard, Founder & CEO at Upskill
Gaile Gordon, Expert in Residence at LDV Capital
Derik Pridmore, Co-Founder, CEO of OSARO
Theo Saville, Co-Founder & CEO at CloudNC
Dr. Josh Bishop-Moser, Principal Researcher at MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight U Michigan
Dr. Nicholas Harris, Founder & CEO at Lightmatter
Aymeric de Pontbriand, Co-Founder & CEO at Scortex
Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Co-Founder & CEO at Instrumental
Helen Zelman Boniske, Partner at Lemnos Labs
Matija Kopic, Co-Founder & CEO at Gideon Brothers
Scott Rafer, Expert in supply chain logistics, Advisor at The Associated Press
Skylar Tibbits, Assistant Professor, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab at Massachusetts Institute.