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News Release from: ARC Advisory Group | Subject: PA market
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 December 2007
Robust growth in process automation
systems market
The process industry automation systems market continues to experience solid worldwide growth as plants must continue to improve performance
End users facing globalisation are driving plant performance at a level that would be inconceivable without modern process automation systems and business processes As a result, automation systems for process industries will experience healthy growth
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 21 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The market was nearly USD30billion in 2006 and is forecasted to grow to over USD47 billion in 2011, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study.
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"Constant cost pressure in process industries leaves no alternative but to improve plant performance, and process automation technologies play a key role in achieving this" says Senior Analyst Himanshu Shah, the principal author of the ARC "Automation Systems for Process Industries Worldwide Outlook".
Many trends are emerging as a result of globalisation, which means more markets, more products, and more partners.
Opportunities expand, but so do the challenges for global manufacturers.
Companies are selling their products around the world and they are facing competition from a growing number of global players.
One reason the automation systems business will do so well over the next few years is the huge list of challenges and changing conditions in the global business environment that manufacturers must respond to.
These challenges include globalisation, the need to act quickly and with agility to emerging market opportunities, dealing with a shrinking base of educated and well trained personnel, and increasing pressure to improve financial performance.
These challenges are driving a significant change in the way that end users approach everything they use to control production, engineering, operations, and maintenance across the manufacturing enterprise.
Automation is a ticket to be a participant in this flat world, and therefore, process automation products are expected to have robust growth as they are used across industrial segments, ranging from food and beverage and metals and mining to chemical and water and waste industries.
ARC takes a look at the leading indicators shaping the growth of the global automation marketplace, from capacity utilisation to productivity and industrial production, and how these will affect the market in the coming years.
Despite troubles in the US and Canadian economies, the global outlook for automation and manufacturing remains bright.
Higher energy prices continue to contribute to increased capital investments and large project backlogs for oil, gas and refining companies.
The pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries remain strong, and growth in Asia and other developing regions remains high.
Asia remains the centre of growth, but the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Latin America continue to show strong growth as well.
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