Logistics automation market projected at $126B by 2029. What it means for installation discipline.
What drives that growth is a structural shift. Supply chains are under pressure to move faster, with fewer errors, and with less reliance on manual labour. Smarter warehouses are no longer a luxury, they are the baseline expectation for competitive operations.
But scale and speed of adoption also bring risk. Implementations that are rushed, poorly scoped, or built on the wrong technology mix for a given operation underperform on ROI. The gap between a well-integrated automation solution and a poorly executed one is large, and it shows up in pick rates, throughput, uptime, and total cost of ownership.
At MERIXA, our crews work to close that gap. Whether the project is a Kardex Shuttle 500 deployment for dense parts storage, a conveyor integration, or a full intralogistics redesign, the focus is on solutions that fit the operation, not the other way round.
As the market accelerates toward 2029, the warehouses that win will be the ones that invested not just in hardware, but in thoughtful system integration. The bigger challenge integrators tell us they face is not selecting the right hardware, it is selecting the right installation discipline to make the hardware do what it was sold to do.