The reshoring angle is huge and I don't think people fully appreciate how much it's accelerating servo adoption. We quoted 3 jobs last quarter that were explicitly "bring this back from China" projects. All three required servo because the parts had been redesigned for lighter gauge material — you can't form 0.6mm SPCC with a 1200 SPM mechanical without cracking it, but a servo at 400mm/s controlled approach does it clean.
On the EV side — the battery tray and busbar work is driving some unusual specs. One customer wanted ±0.02mm BDC repeatability across a 12-hour shift for copper busbar coining. That's thermal compensation territory. We ended up specifying a press with real-time BDC correction based on frame temperature sensors. Added about $45K to the press cost but the scrap rate went from 3.2% to under 0.4%.
Market-wise, I'm also seeing a shift in who's buying. Used to be mostly Tier 1 automotive. Now we get inquiries from medical device shops, electronics connectors, even a furniture hardware company. The "servo premium" has dropped enough (maybe 25-30% over mechanical now vs 50%+ five years ago) that the ROI math works for smaller operations running 2 shifts.