Advanced Process Control and Online Optimization

The Advanced Process Control (APC) and Online Optimization market research delivers current market analysis plus a five year market and technology forecast. The research is available in multiple editions including worldwide, all regions, and most major countries. The research covers Advanced Process Control, Online Optimization, Sustainability, Environmental, Social, and Governance, ESG, AI for Seed Models, Strategic Analysis, Market Size, Historical Analysis, Industry Trends

Advanced Process Control and Optimization Market Driven by Sustainability and ESG Initiatives

ARC Advisory Group research reveals that sustainability and ESG initiatives are becoming increasingly important to industrial companies. Improving operational safety also plays a vital role, since for many companies this is part of the license to operate. Advanced process control and optimization technologies reduce process variability, minimize costly product giveaway, optimize processes against constraints, and support autonomous operations. Suppliers continue to develop better tools to ensure users sustain the value of their applications. Some suppliers are increasing the value of their APC applications by providing an APC monitoring application that detects problems quickly, diagnoses the probable cause, and repairs the controller by generating a new or updated model.

Advanced Process Control and Online Optimization Strategic Issues

Advanced Process ControlIn addition to providing a five-year market forecast, the Advanced Process Control and Online Optimization market research provides detailed quantitative current market data and addresses key strategic issues as follows.

Implement Benefits Sustainment Programs

Today, companies are embracing real-time performance management as a means to improve flexibility and profitability while coping with the reduction of manpower and the burden of monitoring assets. As such, making KPIs visible about the performance of the controller is becoming more common to ensure that it is being effectively utilized. As companies move to the next level of performance by adopting rigorous optimization to augment APC, it is imperative to monitor controller performance to make certain it is operating correctly. Still, more needs to be done in the way of providing KPIs that tie into business objectives and provide actual cash benefit.

Suppliers continue to develop better tools to ensure users sustain the value of their applications. Some suppliers are increasing the value of their APC applications by providing an APC monitoring application that detects problems quickly, diagnoses the probable cause, and repairs the controller by generating a new or updated model. Users should develop programs to sustain model performance using the best available tools.

Tiered Level Support Augments Users’ Technical Staff

The global APC and optimization market have traditionally been enjoying a phase of growth due largely to strong demand from oil and gas and refining companies. Now these companies are challenged to work harder at justifying the effort to deploy APC and optimization when skilled engineering resources are available. Many “APC experts” have progressed to other areas within their company, and gaps currently exist with skills and talent at the site level. This in turn highlights the importance of supplier offerings to improve the deployment and sustainability of APC and optimization. The availability of on-site APC gurus has led to the need to improve model accuracy and shorten the time to value. Many suppliers already offer enhanced support and service offerings by remote and on-site, however the future of APC belongs to solutions that provide the lowest risk in deployment and ability to update models. Features like “self-tune and unattended model calibration” are in demand from owner operators and practitioners.

With the decrease in qualified APC engineers or “gurus” at operating companies, suppliers and system integrators are taking on more and more model and application remote maintenance to ensure that users sustain the value of their applications. By providing the more basic services on-site, remote specialists can assist with higher level more detailed APC and optimization model functions to a greater number of systems for a more efficient and cost-effective and sustainable model. Suppliers and system integrators guarantee that users achieve the maximum benefit from a high-performance application.

Target Smaller Scope Optimization Projects

Over the past several years, users have had limited success implementing large-scale multi-unit, real-time optimization projects. Risk-averse users with limited resources to maintain complicated solutions began to shy away from multi-unit optimization projects altogether. Recently, users’ interest in optimization is returning with acceleration. Many end users are looking to implement optimization projects across their enterprise and are therefore addressing small, highly scalable smaller APC projects across a wider variety of process applications. They are just being far more cautious about the scale and implementation process.

Market Data Research Available Datasets

This in-depth market data research is split into two key modules: Market Growth Outlook and Competitive Analysis.  Each of these modules is further configured into several sub-modules to meet the needs of executives as well as marketing, sales, and product development managers.  All of these modules and sub-modules may be purchased as a bundle or separately.  A brief description of these modules, sub-modules, and their use cases is included below.

Market Growth Outlook

ARC’s market growth outlook service delivers an in-depth market opportunity analysis including five-year market and technology forecasts and 3-year history trend lines where available. Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.  

This service is designed to help accelerate your organization's ability to understand an up-to-date view of the market opportunity provided by your current product portfolio and analyze how your company’s market opportunity would change if you were to acquire or divest a particular product line. The service will also help you identify and capitalize on emerging markets, whether these markets are based on an emerging technology, region, vertical industry, or application. Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying the opportunities provided by emerging trends. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of market growth opportunity analyses for nearly four decades also provides greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market growth outlook services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.  

In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet your specific needs.  For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.

ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market opportunities designed to help executives quickly identify key trends and market opportunities around the world.  In-depth market opportunity analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific market information to plan marketing and product development strategies.  The following table shows more specific information included in each version.

Market Growth Outlook AnalysisUse CasesTarget Role
Worldwide Market Growth Outlook by Industry & Region with 3-year history where availableIn-depth technology-specific strategic growth planning across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industriesProduct & Marketing Managers
Worldwide Industry Growth Outlook by Region with 3-year history where availableStrategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industriesIndustry Managers
Regional/Country Market Growth Outlook by Technology & Industry with 3-year history where available (includes country data)Strategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple world regionsRegional & Country Sales Managers
Market Growth Outlook Executive ViewStrategic Total Available Market (TAM) growth planning dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regionsExecutives
Market Competitive Analysis

ARC’s Competitive Analysis services deliver in depth competitive analyses across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries.  Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.  

This service is designed to help product and marketing managers identify their company’s market positioning across multiple views within their Serviceable Available Market (SAM). Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying how their company’s market position would change if the company were to acquire or divest a particular product line or technology. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of competitive market benchmarking for nearly four decades lends greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market competitive services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.  

In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet the specific needs of our clients.  For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.

ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market competitive analyses designed to help executives quickly assess their SAM by world region, technology, or vertical industry. In-depth competitive market analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific benchmarking information to plan marketing and product development strategies.  The following table shows more specific information included in each version. 

Competitive AnalysisUse CasesTarget Role
Worldwide Competitive Analysis by TechnologyIn-depth competitive market analysis that quantifies how your company’s market position has changed over time across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industriesProduct & Marketing Managers
Worldwide Competitive Analysis by IndustryStrategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industriesIndustry Managers
Regional/Country Competitive Analysis by IndustryStrategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple world regionsRegional Sales Managers
Competitive Analysis Executive ViewStrategic Serviceable Available Market (SAM) analysis dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regionsExecutives

Worldwide Market Research Focus Areas

Strategic Analysis

  • Major Trends
  • Executive Overview
  • Buyer Strategies
  • Supplier Strategies
  • Growth Contributors and Inhibitors

Competitive Analysis

  • Market Shares of the Leading Suppliers
  • Market Shares by Region
    • North America
    • Europe, Middle East, Africa
    • Asia
    • Latin America
  • Market Shares by Application
    • Advanced Process Control
    • Online Optimization
  • Market Shares by Revenue Category
    • Software
    • Services
  • Market Shares by Service Type
    • Implementation
    • Maintenance
    • Software as a Service
  • Market Shares by Industry
    • Cement & Glass
    • Chemical
    • Electric Power Generation
    • Food & Beverage
    • Metals
    • Mining
    • Oil & Gas
    • Pharmaceutical
    • Pulp & Paper
    • Refining
    • Water & Wastewater
  • Market Shares by Customer Tier
  • Market Shares by Sales Channel

Market Forecast and Histories

  • Total Shipments of APC and Online Optimization
  • Shipments by Region
    • North America
    • Europe, Middle East, Africa
    • Asia
    • Latin America
  • Shipments by Application
    • Advanced Process Control
    • Online Optimization
  • Shipments by Revenue Category
    • Software
    • Services
  • Shipments by Service Type
    • Implementation
    • Maintenance
    • Software as a Service
  • Shipments by Industry
    • Cement & Glass
    • Chemical
    • Electric Power Generation
    • Food & Beverage
    • Metals
    • Mining
    • Oil & Gas
    • Pharmaceutical
    • Pulp & Paper
    • Refining
    • Water & Wastewater
  • Shipments by Customer Tier
  • Shipments by Distribution Channel

Industry Participants

The research identifies all relevant suppliers serving this market.

Regional Market Research Focus Areas

Strategic Analysis

Competitive Analysis

  • Leading Suppliers in Region
  • Industry Shares in Region
  • Country Shares in Region
  • Leading Suppliers by Industry

Market History & Forecast Analysis 

  • Market History & Forecast by Country
  • Market History & Forecast by Industry

Industry Participants

List of countries & currencies included in each region: MIRA-Country

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