Increasing government and consumer focus on environmental responsibility, sustainability, and energy efficiency is changing the way building owners, facility managers, and executives view building systems, such as lighting. It is estimated that buildings use more than 70% of total electricity in the US and Lighting consumes more than 40% of a building’s electricity. Buildings also have the fastest growth rate in energy consumption; compounding this issue. This study provides insight into the latest trends and technologies in lighting control systems, strategies for successful system implementation and optimization, an overview of government energy initiatives and tightening regulations that mandate increases in building efficiency, and company profiles of leading suppliers in the lighting control market to help users in choose the optimal lighting control solution and supplier for their lighting application. 

This study contains information regarding total size of the worldwide lighting controls market, regional market sizes, the latest market trends and technologies, a five year estimate of market growth, current market shares of leading suppliers, and profiles of leading suppliers in this market.

How can 3PLs and customers take their relationship to a higher level of value and performance? This was the key question addressed in several think tank sessions ARC conducted at The Logistics & Supply Chain Forum organized by Richmond Events in November 2009. Forty-three logistics and supply chain executives, from various manufacturing and retail companies, participated in these sessions. ARC also conducted a web survey, with the support of Richmond Events, on the same topic. More than 100 logistics and supply chain executives responded to the survey. This report highlights the key findings from the think tank sessions and the survey results. 

Users should be particularly interested in this Strategy Report, since it looks at the current landscape in service oriented architecture (SOA) for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and reviews the SOA offerings by the leading PLM suppliers. 

An examination of the current state of openness and interoperability in PLM solutions. Currently, most leading PLM suppliers have adopted an SOA collaborative framework to enable sharing of engineering models and data, manufacturing process data. This approach is to help enable interoperability and exchange of PLM information for users in a very heterogeneous design/build applications environment.

This study will benefit users by allowing them to benchmark their level of automation expenditures to the industry average. This study will also help users match their particular applications and requirements to the suppliers active in those markets. The goal of this study is to specifically help ARC clients assess and lower their risk in making strategic decisions and to serve as an effective planning guide for purchasers of automation products and services. 

Broad-based automation suppliers active across many of the automation markets will find this information invaluable for their internal planning purposes. Specifically, the competitive market intelligence information in this report will help suppliers benchmark themselves against their competition. The 5-year market forecast for each individual automation product available in this report provides suppliers a cost justifiable solution for unbiased market forecast information across multiple automation products without having to purchase all of the technology reports individually. This information is invaluable for justifying your internal business plan to corporate board members.

The batch process industry has to deal with not just control of production batches, but also with planning, scheduling, tracking, and tracing of material. This includes both source materials as well as finished batches. For many products, quality control and quality monitoring information are important as the batch is being produced as well as the final production lot. Solutions in Collaborative Production Management (CPM) exist that solve most of these problems. 

This study focuses on the CPM suppliers that provide solutions for the batch process industries. Market size and growth are analyzed and strategies for both owner/operators and suppliers are provided.

This study is intended to help suppliers and end users stay on top of emerging trends and changes in the asset management landscape for power transmission and distribution. Included in the study are details of the emerging technologies, technology maturity, industry adoption, adoption forecast, and market leaders and profiles of T&D asset management suppliers are included in this study. In addition to the quantitative assessment of the marketplace, this report provides an insightful analysis of the products and strategies of the leading T&D asset management suppliers for users planning a PAM initiative.

Huge projects are on tap for the energy industries, but these industries are challenged to bring such projects to completion as planned. While all new energy plants and infrastructure is being designed with state-of-the-design software tools, the design information is not being effectively utilized during the processes of construction, commissioning, and early operation of these assets. ARC recently interviewed a variety of specialists in this area to find out how they plan to do better. 

Process deviations cost manufacturers billions of dollars each year due to off-spec product, plant shutdowns, equipment damage, environmental fines, and personal injury or even death. These abnormal situations are caused by a disturbance or multiple disturbances that drive a process to deviate from its target and outside its normal operating state. By their very nature abnormal situations are difficult to detect and prevent because of complicated multiple failure modes. 

Abnormal situations result from numerous sources throughout the lifecycle of a plant. For example, design flaws in a process or piece of equipment or inappropriate control strategies can create potentially dangerous incidents. Improving operations situational awareness to detect, prevent, and mitigate the effects of abnormal situations require a highly structured and focused approach that includes training, process control and monitoring, and effective communications and procedures to name a few. In addition to these issues, this report will identify strategies for both suppliers of technology solutions and owner/operators to address the increasing needs for operator situational awareness.

Manufacturers are facing a variety of challenges including an exodus of skilled labor and related knowledge base, operating with aging equipment, environmental, health, and safety issues, mountains of data to process, and energy management concerns while simultaneously producing quality product. Reliability software of operational assets is proving to be an effective means to maximize physical asset performance, mitigate risk, and optimize cost. ARC will report the results of its survey aimed at understanding process manufacturers’ approach to reliability, the tools implemented, and the improvements realized. 

Since this Strategy Report examines the needs of the owner-operators in the energy sector (oil & gas, power generation, alternative energy) for managing engineering models and data, the information should be very pertinent to their needs. This report will examine current needs regarding hand-over as well as engineering models and information. 

Control system migration remains one of the top issues and challenges that the process industry end users face today. Worldwide, ARC estimates there is an ageing installed base of process automation systems reaching the end of their useful life that is valued at roughly $65 billion. This number gets bigger with each passing year as many manufacturers are facing serious challenges as to how to deal with this installed base. With so many older systems installed and so many new system offerings emerging from the major suppliers, control system migration strategies are becoming important considerations for enabling increased plant performance and the adoption of new automation strategies. This report will deal with the options available for end users of process control systems. 

Users of process automation systems have struggled with the issue of determining when the useful life of their system is over. Since these systems are crucial to the success of operations from so many aspects, having a strategy based on best practices is essential. The issue is complicated to say the least. Modern process automation systems are comprised of many components that each have life expectancies. Suppliers have worked in concert with their clients to provide replacements for obsolete components that in many cases have extended the life far beyond the original expectation. This report will examine what are lifecycle expectancies and what to look for in lifecycle milestones. It will examine practices used in lifecycle management, extension, and when appropriate justification of upgrades or replacements. 

At the heart of the global demand for energy is the need for oil and gas pipelines. The SCADA market is transforming due to the far-reaching impact of technology, and the fact that SCADA systems can help organizations change their business processes by leveraging real-time knowledge flow. With change come opportunities such as; Delivering business system integration, Developing the Intelligent Oilfield, and Cyber Security and Environmental issues. These and other strategic and technology issues will be examined in this report. 

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) business in the oil and gas industry worldwide. The market data is for SCADA systems only. In order to meet the definition of a SCADA system as defined in this report, the system must monitor and control field devices using remote terminal units (RTU) at geographically dispersed sites.

Greenfield projects and expansion of capacities in process industries continue to happen in India and thereby the growth of process automation. While automation remains one of the best investments a manufacturer can make, it is critical for user to understand market and technology trends shaping automation. Automation is increasingly vital as manufacturers gear up to face challenges to compete in the global economy which the Indian process manufacturers are discovering for their growth. Distributed Control Systems (DCS) is an essential component for automation and this study provides an in-depth analysis of the India DCS business, information on leading suppliers, their strengths, technology trends, and insight into the best practices 

India Automation market dynamics for suppliers continue to be competitive as manufacturers’ exercise their choice of Distributed Control Systems (DCS) from the offerings. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the India market DCS business and its market segments. In addition to market analysis and forecasts, the study also covers strategic issues that influence the market, discusses issues that DCS suppliers need address, such as which industries to target, long-term market characteristics, and technology choice of manufacturers. It also discusses various options available for DCS suppliers to increase their value propositions to the market

The Collaborative Automation System (CPAS) was developed about five years ago as a result of a number of users asking ARC what they should look for in the new systems being released as a result of internet technologies moving into plants. As a consequence ARC developed this state of the art vision. It was completed in the form of a study and was very successful. CPAS 2.0 is the result of a number of users what they should expect in the next generation of process automation in order to plan for it and gauge the impact it could have on their business. It includes fundamentally new capability at the control level and worker empowerment at higher levels. 

Suppliers will find strategies to help them satisfy the needs of the process industries. The study examines industrial standards, technologies and functional requirements for consideration.

Terminal automation system (TAS) must combine the powerful IT-enabled application, information processing, and transactional capabilities of back-office, enterprise-level business systems, with the real-time performance, determinism, nonstop availability, and specialized physical packaging of industrial process control and SCADA systems. Owner/operators have a large array of needs from simple to extremely complex terminal operations. Strategies that include business, technology and supplier capabilities both locally and globally must be developed. 

Today, a growing number of suppliers offer comprehensive, largely pre-integrated terminal automation solutions. These include both specialized terminal automation suppliers and broad line automation suppliers. This report will elaborate on the scope of solutions as well as determine the size and growth of the Terminal Automation market. Strategies for success, both from an owner/operator and supplier point of view will be included.

Industrial Ethernet continues to migrate into application areas formerly served by dedicated industrial networks. As this trend continues, Ethernet infrastructure selection decisions are becoming even more critical. This ARC update gives potential buyers insight into the key technological and application trends impacting ruggedized Ethernet switches and the burgeoning supplier base looking to serve this market. 

An escalating number of commercial and industrial communication suppliers currently serve or plan to enter the market for ruggedized Ethernet switches. Traditional industrial players and new entrants alike are targeting emerging growth segments outside of manufacturing, in particular in the areas of renewable/green energy and other infrastructure applications. This ARC update presents market size, forecast, and key segmentation data, as well as the market share statistics needed to plan your strategy for this dynamic marketplace.

Current business conditions are causing firms to reduce operating costs and capital expenditures. Maintenance is among those being told to lower their operating costs. But, they cannot allow higher failure rates despite the aging equipment. Enlightened managers are finding opportunities to acquire EAM solutions with quick payback. This outlook study provides guidance to those selecting a supplier for their industry and local needs. 

The Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) study provides an effective planning guide for current suppliers and new entrants to the EAM market. ARC studies help suppliers develop business plans for marketing and product development. This study provides strategic market information including size, growth, segmentation, supplier profiles, and strategies for success.

Counterfeit products are everywhere today and can include everything from golf balls, cigarettes, watches, clothing, food, medicines, household goods, toys, fertilizers, etc. Many counterfeit products are unsafe and are a real and growing threat to consumers. Some counterfeit products are packaged and labeled or re-labeled to look like real brand-name and generic products to deceive consumers into thinking that they are buying the authentic product – be it medicines, food or fertilizers. Counterfeit products are unsafe because they may contain inactive ingredients that are not effective or contain toxic ingredients that may be harmful. These ‘fakes’ are not equivalent in quality, safety, and efficacy to the original product. Increasingly sophisticated counterfeiting rings are launching counterfeits around the world. Specialized packaging, applications and technologies are being deployed to help prevent counterfeit products and to be able to recall counterfeit products effectively. 

This study will focus on worldwide legislation and regulations, technologies for authentication and case histories and best practices regarding the implementation of technologies designed to prevent counterfeiting.

This report identifies key questions the industry is trying to answer. It identifies the largest companies in the industry in terms of sales and discusses some of their growth strategies. It discusses some of the attributes of highly successful companies in the industry. The report also provides and in depth discussion of leading industry trends and business drivers. These include rising food safety due diligence, new regulations and global standards, changing consumer purchasing patterns, emerging markets, urbanization, the driving need for more sustainable manufacturing, Wal-Mart initiatives, and the new information architecture, as well as the strategies companies are deploying to address these drivers. It provides case study examples of important technology deployments and the benefits being achieved by the specific company. The report provides implicit and explicit strategies for users and suppliers to help them improve business performance. 

This report will provide an update of the latest developments in wireless devices used in process manufacturing, along with insights and profiles of the leading players. 

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is an effective tool to monitor your plant assets. Adding the dynamic dimension to software whereby operating personnel can see in real time how their equipment is performing allows changes to be made before problems occur. This report takes a look at suppliers of OEE software and provides users with a guide based on functions and capabilities provided by suppliers of this application technology. 

Automation is increasingly more vital as manufacturers continue to face challenges to compete in the global economy. Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is a key component for automation. While automation remains one of the best investments a manufacturer can make, it is critical for user to understand market and technology trends shaping automation. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the worldwide PLC business, information on leading suppliers and their penetration in the world markets, .and market and technology trends. 

Automation market dynamics for suppliers remains extremely competitive. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the worldwide Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) business and its segments. In addition to market analysis and forecasts, the study also covers strategic issues that influence the market. This leads to issues that PLC suppliers must address, such as how to create opportunities by learning from long term trends and which industries to target. The report also suggests various strategies for PLC suppliers to increase their value propositions to the market.

Even with the world economic crisis, the need for automation services has continued on an unprecedented expansion path. Many owner/operators are in need of specialized services that in many cases, only automation suppliers can provide. As a result, major automation suppliers have increased the scope of services offered to cover all aspects of the plant operating lifecycle. Some offered complete maintenance and operating outsourcing services in industries such as mining and power generation. The scope of automation supplier-provided services began to expand to fill the specific gaps created by the increasing labor crisis in the process industries, now exacerbated by a wave of baby boomer retirements. Today, we stand on the verge of another era of transformation for the services business. 

This report will provide detail analysis of the size, growth and diversity of the automation suppliers' services market. Strategies for owner/operators as well as suppliers will be discussed on topics such as; outsourcing strategies, trends of main automation contractors, and personnel training.

In order to be successful, plant asset performance should be aligned with business objectives making real-time visibility of asset performance critical to success. A variety of analytical software tools to track asset performance and assess their reliability are available including reliability centered maintenance (RCM), root cause analysis (RCA), predictive maintenance (PdM), preventive maintenance (PM). This report will examine the market for these and other enterprise level reliability software solutions and associated services. 

Users across a wide range of industries have recognized that AC drives are a significant contributor in energy savings. For users, installing AC drives represents an important step toward achieving sustainability and reducing their environmental footprints. AC drives can also help users improve their bottom lines, as the reduced energy costs help increase competitiveness. To this end, it is important for users to have comprehensive information on AC drive suppliers. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the worldwide low power AC drives business, information on leading suppliers, suppliers’ market penetration, and market and technology trends. 

The challenge in the low power AC drives market landscape is how suppliers can differentiate themselves and continue to offer increasing value propositions to users and OEMs. This is especially important because the market is extremely competitive and demand is expected to grow as users in many industries have recognized the benefits of low power AC drives. This study identifies growth segments and market trends, as well as challenges suppliers face to achieve growth in a very fragmented market landscape. This study also provides a number of recommendations, such as which industries to target in light of current economy and which specific industry sectors to penetrate in this fiercely competitive market.

Plant Asset Management Systems (PAM) is a collection of technologies that provide asset health, prediction, protection, and diagnostics to improve asset availability for production. PAM provides workers with knowledge to identify bad assets, determine faults and recommend appropriate course of action to reduce time cost to repair. PAM study provides information to enable users to track emerging technology trends, adoption in the users industry, emerging applications, and typical returns. As a reference manual, it helps end users develop a unique PAM initiative for their organizations with appropriate strategies, features, and functions. 

Increasing government and consumer focus on environmental responsibility, sustainability, and energy efficiency is changing the way building owners, facility managers, and executives view commercial buildings. It’s estimated that buildings consume more than 70 percent of total electricity in the US. Much of this energy is needlessly wasted and electricity consumption in commercial buildings is growing faster than any other sector in the US. This study provides insight into the emerging market for building energy management systems, strategies for successful system implementation and optimization, an overview of government energy initiatives and tightening regulations that mandate increases in building efficiency, and company profiles of leading suppliers in the building energy management systems market to assist users in choosing the right energy management solution to fit their needs. 

Worldwide growth in the product lifecycle management (PLM) usage by manufacturers is caused by many factors. Some of these include; demand for increased efficiency and productivity, a continuing need for collaboration across a global manufacturing lifecycle, the rapidly growing need for product re-invention and innovation, the continued growth of manufacturing in emerging economies, and expanding adoption of a more holistic end-to-end PLM solution. This report will examine these issues and strategies to address them. 

Suppliers of PLM solutions will learn the size and growth of this increasingly important market. The report will also include profiles of key competitors as well as strategies to address the needs of the manufacturers deploying PLM.

The report provides useful information on which discrete industries in India are expected to invest in automation systems. While automation remains one of the best investments a manufacturer can make, it is critical for users to understand market and technology trends shaping automation. This study provides an in-depth analysis of the India discrete automation systems business, information on leading suppliers, and market and technology trends 

Automation suppliers operating in India marketplace, recognize the continuing opportunities in a growing economy. Both opportunities and competition will increase amongst the discrete automation suppliers of both global and domestic. In addition to market analysis and forecasts, this report also covers strategic issues that influence the market across several leading industry segments. This report provides insights for the suppliers to help answer questions such as which are the growth industries, what are the market trends impacting automation equipment, and what dynamics are at play in discrete industries

The Strategy report will provide the end-user with a comprehensive understanding of the various components of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) as applicable to the Indian context. This is a strategic report providing a clear perspective on how a network serving electricity transmission and distribution company (DISCOM) uses robust two-way communications, advanced sensors, and distributed computing to improve efficiency, reliability, and choice of equipments/solutions in the distribution side of the power business in India. It provides an understanding into the challenges, regulatory measures of the State, supplier profiles, role of standards, and adoption of internet protocols involved. A comparative analysis of India initiatives with those globally happening is presented for the end users benefit. 

The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) India strategy report provides both the automation supplier and enterprise solution providers with a clear understanding of the India marketplace for this business. This is a strategic report providing a clear perspective on the present status and future trends associated with the efforts of electricity distribution companies (DISCOM) to use two-way communications, advanced sensors, and distributed computing to improve efficiency, reliability, and choice of equipments/solutions. It provides an understanding of the challenges in the market for suppliers, end-users, engineering consultants, and other stake holders in the AMI business in India. Strategic solutions to develop business in a growing but technology savvy country such as India is presented.

Industrial Ethernet continues to migrate into application areas formerly served by dedicated industrial networks. This ARC update gives potential buyers insight into the key technological and application trends impacting ruggedized Ethernet devices used at the I/O level and the burgeoning supplier base looking to serve this market. 

This report will provide the size of the shipments as well as 5 year growth for various segments such as industries served and world regions. Profiles of leading suppliers and strategies for success for both suppliers and end users will be included.

Over the years ARC has accumulated a number of rules of thumb that we use to gauge the phases of an automation project’s lifecycle in terms of the overall percentage of the project. These are discussed in the terms of understanding a ballpark relationship of the costs through the lifecycle of a typical process automation system. 

The medium voltage AC drives are employed in applications ranging from power generation to oil and gas, water, marine, paper and more. The medium voltage AC drive systems can lower operating costs by allowing to build a more energy-efficient process. Saving energy is a key for most organizations to be successful and profitable as it lowers energy costs and provides protection against rising energy prices. Consequently, many industries are expected to continue investments in medium voltage AC drives. The study provides useful benchmarking information on which industries are expected to invest heavily in this area and which industries have high penetration of medium voltage AC drives. 

The medium voltage AC drives market is expected to experience significant growth due to investments in the infrastructure, oil & gas, metals & mining, and marine industries worldwide. This report provides an in-depth market analysis and trends which are critical for suppliers for strategic planning. This study analyses changing market landscape and offers various strategies to expand in the global market. The study identifies growth segments and market trends, as well as challenges suppliers face.

New automation control solutions will be needed to efficiently drill for oil at depths approaching 30,000 ft. This report identifies leading technologies, equipment, and strategies for control at the ocean floor. Strategies for online and offline control will be discussed including strengths, weaknesses, and benefits. 

Manufacturers will continually face challenges to raise productivity, lower product costs, reduce plant operating expenses, and increase return on investment (ROI) in order to compete in the global market. Consequently, many industries are expected to resume investments in automation, including in the General Motion Control (GMC) equipment, to help lower the costs and raise the quality of their manufactured products. This will result in increased use of GMC equipment across many industries. The study provides useful benchmarking information on the GMC equipment as to which industries are expected to invest heavily in it and what are trends for GMC equipment. 

The recent turbulence in the global market effectively put a huge damper on the General Motion Control (GMC) market. Suppliers rapidly scaled businesses to the reduced opportunity. Suppliers continue to face enormous challenge as customers need to cost-justify advanced forms of automation including GMC. The study analyses GMC market landscape, opportunities that lie ahead for suppliers, and strategies for growth and penetration.

This ARC Advisory Group study analyzes the worldwide market for utility customer information systems (CIS) and meter data management (MDM) systems. Utility Customer Information Systems (CIS) account for a large portion of the overall IT investment within these organizations. These solutions differ from common CRM solutions in their capacity to manage a large scale of billing and payment information such as variable rate structures, energy consumption, large volume statement generation, payment history, and accounts receivable records. The rapid increase in interval energy consumption data has made meter data management systems an essential element in the management of energy consumption information and complex billing processes. Going forward, utilities are likely to consider the relationship between CIS systems and MDM when making investment decisions. We have therefore expanded the scope of this study beyond the traditional view of CIS solutions to include meter data management. 

This ARC Advisory Group study analyzes the worldwide market for utility customer information systems (CIS) and meter data management (MDM). Utility Customer Information Systems (CIS) account for a large portion of the overall IT investment within these organizations and are therefore of great importance to utility operations. Due to the increasingly important role of MDM solutions in managing energy consumption data, utilities are likely to consider the relationship between CIS systems and MDM when making future investment decisions. We have therefore expanded the scope of this study beyond the traditional view of CIS solutions to include meter data management. This study analyzes the current market and future growth prospects for CIS and MDM solutions. Market shares and forecasts are segmented across several dimensions including World Region, Revenue Type, and End-user Industry.

This report examines leading companies and important evolving industry trends that impact the chemical industry. It provides an in depth discussion of leading business drivers and the strategies companies are deploying to address these drivers. Leading suppliers within the industry, globally and by geographic region, and leading suppliers of some of the most important automation technologies being deployed are also included. Supplier profiles included identify supplier capabilities, strengths, and challenges. This information provides implicit and explicit strategies for users and suppliers to help them improve business performance. 

In addition to the overall size of the shipments of automation systems, instrumentation, software and services, the report also provides growth information for the next 5 years. This data is included for important segments such as world regions and technology groupings.

The SCADA for water and waste is transforming due to the far-reaching impact of technology, and the fact that SCADA systems can empower a quantum change in the way companies restructure business processes to respond to real-time knowledge flow. With change comes opportunities, and there are a number of strategies ARC recommends to maximize potential in the changing marketplace, including; Providing water utilities with migration planning, Making security issues a top priority, and enabling required business process changes. These and other issues will be discussed in this report. 

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) business in the electric power industry worldwide. The market data is for SCADA systems only. In order to meet the definition of a SCADA system as defined in this report, the system must monitor and control field devices using remote terminal units (RTU) at geographically dispersed sites.

Manufacturers will continually face challenges to raise productivity, lower product costs, reduce plant operating expenses, and increase return on investment (ROI) in order to compete in the global market. Many industries are expected to employ Computer Numerical Control equipment, to help lower the costs and raise the quality of fabricated metal parts, plastics, glass, wood, and carbon fibers. This will result in increased use of CNC equipment across many industries such as the medical, woodworking, and aerospace. The study provides useful benchmarking information on CNC equipment as to which industries are expected to invest heavily in it and what are the technology trends for CNC equipment. 

Computer Numerical Control (CNC) is an application specific motion control system for industrial machinery; however the dominant market is the Machine Tool sector. More specifically, the majority of the machine tool market is targeted at metal working machinery with a relatively smaller sector that applies to a number of other material contouring applications in wood, plastics, and glass. The one commonality between every application in the CNC market is that the machinery is specifically intended to perform shaping or contouring in a precise and repeatable fashion. The study is an in-depth analysis of the CNC systems market including market size and segmentation, market forecast, industry structure, and supplier market shares and profiles. Data contained in this study reflects revenues of CNC suppliers from complete CNC system sales and of components such as servo and spindle drives.

Water and Wastewater utilities are an essential element of most societies infrastructure. Although often taken for granted, water is one of the worlds most valuable resources. This report describes the scope of the water utility business from the viewpoint of automation. The technology has evolved over the years to a state of sophistication ranging from basic sensors and control valves to AC drives, control systems, software, and services. Utility management needs to understand how these work together as well as who can provide the technology and services needed for flawless operation. This report will outline many of these strategies. 

The water and wastewater automation market size and growth will be described. Suppliers that can provide a broad-line of products to this market will be profiled. Suppliers that are particularly strong in one technology or region will be identified.

This study provides insight into the latest trends and technologies in access control systems. It outlines strategies for successful system implementation and optimization, provides an overview of government initiatives and tightening regulations that mandate increases in building automation, efficiency, and safety and lists company profiles of leading suppliers in the access control market to assist users in choosing the proper access control solution and supplier. This study also explores the integration of building automation sub-systems and how this market shift impacts access control system technology. 

Despite being the universal measurement workhorse for nearly a decade, pressure transmitter technology continues to innovate in areas of performance, reliability, and maintainability. The Pressure Transmitter study for the process industry provides insight into the latest trends and technologies. Strategies are identified for successful device selection and implementation and company profiles of leading suppliers are provided to help users choose appropriate suppliers to meet technical and application requirements unique to their organization. 

Security patch management has been a persistent problem for owner and operators of Industrial control systems since security vulnerabilities were first exploited. Many businesses have developed patch processes that are workable but the effort and risks are still too high. Industry guidance, standards, is available but it is not applicable to ICS patch environments. Efforts to develop patch management standards for ICS have struggled. This research and strategy report attempt to enable the improvement of end user processes, supplier practices and standards development by offering a Cyber Security Reference Model for Patch Management. A reference model gives context to all those efforts and enables prioritization of efforts. 

Software and hardware suppliers must all support the testing of operating system patches, development of solutions to the vulnerabilities and deliver of solutions to their customers. The timeliness and quality of these solutions is essential. The patch process is an industry-wide process because suppliers play an integral role within their customers' processes. However customers have difficulty dealing with the many methods that have been developed by suppliers. This research and strategy report attempt to enable the development of consistent processes that suppliers can gravitate toward to reduce cost and improve the quality of support.

Wind power is one the key renewable energy sources that will make a significant contribution towards the goals of future energy models of every major country. Wind power is now an important part of the global energy picture. To fully capture this opportunity, wind turbine manufacturers and wind farm owners must expand their knowledge base to understand underlying control systems trends and suppliers who offer those systems. The report discusses five major types of sub-systems based on its functionality: Main Control System, Condition Monitoring System, Power Converter System, Pitch Control System, and Yaw Control System. 

This study covers Wind Turbine Control Systems sold by third party suppliers to wind turbine manufacturers. The report comprises five major types of sub-systems based on its functionality: Main Control System, Condition Monitoring System, Power Converter System, Pitch Control System, and Yaw Control System. The study addresses why wind turbine market is well positioned to experience extraordinary growth for the next several decades. The scenario creates immense opportunities for growth for wind turbine control system suppliers. However, the market dynamics for suppliers will also remain competitive as more companies are expected to enter the market to take advantage of this rapidly expanding market.

This study will benefit users by allowing them to benchmark their level of field device expenditures to the industry average. This study will also help users match their particular applications and requirements to the suppliers active in those markets. The goal of this study is to specifically help ARC clients assess and lower their risk in making strategic decisions and to serve as an effective planning guide for purchasers of automation products and services. 

Broad-based field instrumentation suppliers active across many of the field device markets will find this information invaluable for their internal planning purposes. Specifically, the competitive market intelligence information in this report will help suppliers benchmark themselves against their competition. The 5-year market forecast for each individual field instrumentation product available in this report provides suppliers a cost justifiable solution for unbiased market forecast information across multiple field instrumentation products without having to purchase all of the technology reports individually. This information is invaluable for justifying your internal business plan to corporate board members.

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 specialization that goes beyond machine performance issues. The growth of regional OEMs has enabled manufacturers who once relied on a comparative labor advantage to produce low valued products to become confident with employing machinery in their facilities that will enable production of higher valued finished goods. Strategic issues discussed include: (1) Trends in machinery design, (2) Regional considerations in machine 

ARC’s coverage of the Production Machinery market is provides automation suppliers with a perspective of the demand side that is not available from any of our traditional market outlook reports. In effect, this type of research will be more applicable to strategic planning services within a very diverse community of automation system and component suppliers. Automation suppliers have been vertically focused internally across a broad cross section of the OEM industrial machinery market.

The Real-time Process Optimization and Training (RPO) includes advanced process control (APC), on-line optimization, and dynamic simulation for training. All of these technologies weigh heavily in the business strategies of owner/operators in the process industries today. Selecting the correct technology and the best supplier for their unique situation can often mean the difference between best-in-class operations and follower status. This report will profile suppliers and their products and services as well as provide strategies for success. 

This study provides an in-depth analysis of the RPO market for process manufacturing by industry segment and geographic region. Segment size and growth will be explained as well. In addition, it provides insightful analysis of key issues that will impact this market in the future. Strategic issues covered include; market consolidation, industry growth opportunities, and economic issues and drivers.

Asset Lifecycle Management includes many processes that cover the time when an asset is first conceived to it is retired. During this broad cycle, many people in different roles contribute to the performance of the asset and impact its associated cost. To optimize asset performance and eliminate waste, considerable IT support is required. ARC's ALM models provide an excellent context for ALM Performance Management. Everyone does asset lifecycle management now in some form. This research and Strategy Report address the IT needs and approaches necessary to improve ALM programs to the level needed by a business. Of course there are multiple strategies and this is taken into account. This report should help user IT organizations relate to ALM programs easier and plan to support ALM programs better. 

ALM includes a very wide range of suppliers and solutions, and it is usually hard to explain how these solutions relate, overlap and integrate. This is especially true when it comes to relating ALM solutions to the IT organization that implement, integrate, extend and maintain them. This research and strategy report relates IT trends and strategies to ALM solutions, helping to improve the communications between ALM solution suppliers and customer organizations.