Automation Market Continues to Experience Solid Growth
This report quantifies, analyzes, and forecasts the worldwide automation systems and services market for the discrete industries. A base year market size, forecast for each segment, and top leading suppliers for the overall market are presented.
Discrete industry automation continues to experience solid worldwide growth as manufacturing plants and OEM machine builders continue to invest in automation to improve agility and flexibility of operations to meet market demands. End users facing globalization are driving plant performance at a level that would be inconceivable without modern automation systems and business processes.
End users are acutely aware of the benefits automation can bring to energy efficiency, and they are increasingly using automation systems to achieve this. Consequently, 2006 was really the fourth year of strong global discrete industry automation systems market growth, which has been maintained in the face of headwinds, such as rising commodity prices and inflation fears.
This report also looks at the regional scenarios as the forecast for automation products vary significantly by world region.
Strategic Issues
The global economy has also created competitive pressures amongst the discrete automation suppliers. This report provides insights for these suppliers to help answer questions such as:
- Which are the growth industries and which are not?
- Which regions are growing faster?
- What are regional scenarios that can impact growth?
- What are the market trends impacting automation equipment?
- What are discrete industry dynamics?