- Type
- not stated
- Format
- Tabular — quarterly press-release statistics and an annual sector review over a maintained country- and technology-level database, with a paid quantitative studies service behind it
- Volume
- Order of 10^4-10^5 time-series cells: a quarterly orders index running since the 1970s-1980s (several hundred quarterly observations) split domestic/foreign, ten-plus headline indicators per release, and a world production and consumption database covering a few dozen countries by product category across decades.
- Users
- Est. low hundreds — member machine tool, robot and automation builders plus subscribers to the paid quantitative studies service (basis: sector trade association with roughly 46 staff and a member-gated statistics service; exact membership not published on this page).
- History
- 50 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Active — quarterly order-intake releases continuing through Q2 2026 plus a current annual sector review; consumption rose 22.3% in 2025 while exports fell 12%, so the underlying market is mixed but the statistical service itself is running at full cadence.
- Launched
- Est. 1970s-1980s for the orders observatory and world market database (basis: UCIMU is Italy's historic sector trade body for machine tools and these are long-running published instruments); the earliest dated artefacts in the observed corpus are 2024 press releases and the 2025 annual sector review.
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated