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News Release from: ARC Advisory Group | Subject: Discrete automation
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 December 2007
Discrete industry automation continues
to grow
Manufacturing plants and OEM machine builders continue to invest in automation to improve the agility and flexibility of operations to meet market demands
The worldwide market for discrete automation systems is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.8% over the next five years The market was nearly USD17 billion in 2006 and is forecasted to grow to over USD23 billion in 2011, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 21 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The increased use of automation by manufacturers is vital, due to the environment created by globalisation, which fuels automation market growth.
Therefore, discrete automation products are expected to have robust growth as they are used across industrial segments, ranging from automotive and electronic and semiconductor to machinery and plastic and rubber industries.
Today, discrete automation investment is driven primarily by business goals, since it helps to achieve objectives for improving plant productivity, product quality, product cost, safety, flexibility, agility, and delivery performance.
Developing economies all over the world are increasing the demand for industrial machinery at high rates.
Feeding this demand has been a surge of regional machine builders with a vertical specialisation that goes beyond machine performance issues.
Regional OEMs including both domestic and foreign transplants have leveraged their close proximity to the customer to create an understanding of the particular niche their customers operate in and are able to build machines which are more suitable to the regional issues.
Countries like China and India have been traditionally viewed as a location for outsourcing low valued production from countries in North America and Europe.
However, there are indications that India and China are slowly moving toward value added manufacturing services that are producing much higher valued products.
Specifically, ARC sees a move toward foreign domestic machine builders establishing production centres in the Asian market to leverage the increasing vertical specialisation that is expanding in industrial machinery.
In contrast to historical capital expenditure cycles in the discrete automation industries, which are commonly driven by the replacement cycle in the machinery sector, this growth period continues to be fueled by the increasing wealth in consumers in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Consequently, many industrial automation suppliers concur that the five year capital expenditure cycle is having only a ripple effect on the longer term sustained growth pattern that automation suppliers are currently experiencing.
* Editors note: My apologies to Sir Winston.
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