Safety Light Curtain Market Size (2024 - 2029)

Safety Light Curtains Market Analysis

The safety light curtain market is expected to register a CAGR of 5% over the forecast period 2021-2026. Rise in industrial automation is one of the primary growth factors for this market that is increasing the adoption of automation in facilities to perform repetitive tasks and allows better allocation of resources, resulting in improved quality of manufactured products.

• The growing demand for processed food and beverages has burdened the manufacturing facilities to increase their production rate by incorporating automatic machines to equate the demand and supply equation. According to the Northwestern Medicine report, almost 80% of Americans' total calorie consumption comes from store-bought foods and beverages (packaged and unpackaged), the food and beverage supply plays a central role in the development of chronic disease including obesity and cardiovascular disease. Higher deployment of machines in facilities has fueled the demand for safety equipment such as safety light curtains that will subsequently impact market growth.
• Rapid expansion of e-commerce in almost every sector due to development of user- friendly interface, ease of shopping, accessibility of smartphones and greater penetration of internet across geography has led to construction of warehouses and implementation of robots in the facility to obtain faster deliveries.
• For instance, Amazon, online retail giant currently has more than 110 active fulfillment centers, 45 sorting centers, and roughly 50 delivery stations, in the United States and more than 185 centers globally that are scattered across the geography with more than 200,000 mobile robots to provide fast, cheap and relatively painless deliveries for consumers. It plans to scale up the numbers by 33 new warehouses around the globe in coming years which is expected to increase the implementation of safety light curtains devices in the future.
• Despite of low rate of adoption of safely light curtains in developing countries, high maintenance requirements the market will experience surge growth in forecast period due to its high demand in automotive, food and beverage and electronic industries.

Safety Light Curtains Industry Segmentation

Safety light curtains or photoelectric safeguarding devices consist of a transmitter (contains multiple LEDs) and a receiver that holds the electronics and optics. They automatically interrupt the operation of potentially dangerous devices or machinery when detecting any human interaction near it and ensure user safety during routine operations like maintenance or manufacturing.