Industrial electrification is reshaping how factories, processing plants and infrastructure operate. At the core of this shift are e-motors that must deliver high efficiency, consistent output and long service life under demanding conditions.

Unlike consumer applications, industrial motors often operate continuously and at scale. Performance losses, thermal stress or downtime have immediate cost implications. As a result, engineers are placing greater emphasis on motor efficiency classes, winding accuracy and material quality.

Precision coil winding plays a key role. Uniform windings improve magnetic balance, reduce heat generation and support predictable motor behaviour. Combined with high-quality insulation systems, this directly contributes to reliability and extended operating life.

Another priority is adaptability. Industrial users increasingly require motors that can support variable loads, integrate with automation systems and align with digital monitoring platforms. This is driving closer collaboration between motor designers, component suppliers and machinery manufacturers.

CWIEME Berlin supports these conversations by bringing together suppliers across the motor value chain. Engineers can evaluate materials, compare manufacturing approaches and engage with specialists who understand industrial production realities.

As industry continues to modernise, e-motors will remain a central lever for efficiency and resilience. The decisions made today around motor design and production capability will define operational performance for years to come.

The unit volume, variety and value of electric motors in industrial applications are at a peak level of growth, which will continue for at least the next several decades. The underlying reasons all tie into two key objectives: productivity and quality.

It’s easy to understand the increased unit volume of motors in industry due to increased focus on productivity and easier access to automation. Because electric motors are cleaner, quieter and more efficient they’re rapidly replacing legacy hydraulic and pneumatic actuators in industrial as well as mobile applications.

Greater automation is affordable in more industrial applications today thanks to technology like cobots, each of which employ six or seven servo motors. As an example, the Danish company, Universal Robots, has already sold over 100,000 cobots, half of those just in the past five years. Interact Analysis projected annual shipments of cobots will exceed 100,000 units by 2029: that’s well over one-half million relatively high value motors per year in just one application. 

But what about the emerging humanoid robot market, each with around 40 motors typically managing movement in arms, legs, and torso. Right now, this is a market utilizing high-efficiency brushless DC motors and some permanent magnet synchronous motors. Morgan Stanley Research estimates the humanoids market is likely to reach US$5 trillion by 2050, or about 930 million robots, deploying over 37 billion electric motors!

So, even if we ignore the burgeoning e-mobility market the electric motor industry is nothing like it was in the past. New product introductions are accelerating and in turn new production tools, components, materials and automated assembly are growing at a pace where it is incumbent on motor industry professionals to level up and sharpen their knowledge and exposure.

An event like CWIEME Berlin 2026 is an incredibly efficient way to not only see what’s happening, but to talk to the companies and engineers who are making it happen so that you become the go-to person in your own organization about what’s the next big thing we should be focusing on in the industrial electric motor market.