Manufacturing Execution Systems for Process Industries

The Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for Process Industries 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.

Manufacturing Execution Systems for Process Market: Digital Transformation and Enhanced User Experience Accelerate Growth 

ARC Advisory Group research reveals that Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for Process Industries is strategic to intelligence and efficient data-driven decisions. To improve user experience, companies are combining digital technologies including AI, digital twins, augmented and virtual reality, and new low code/no code platforms to streamline and make things simpler and easier to use. Simplified intuitive user experience (UX) is very important and often needs to align to the corporate culture. The ability for workers from anywhere (on-premise, on-site, etc.) to access manufacturing intelligence easily and securely has emerged as another key characteristic. The MES must be easy to deploy, connect and integrate. It must be simple to use, intuitive, and collaborative. The software should be scalable and adapt quickly to new innovative technologies and culture.

Manufacturing Execution Systems for Process Market Strategic Issues

Manufacturing Execution Systems for ProcessIn addition to providing a five-year market forecast, the MES for the Process Industry Research provides detailed quantitative current market data and addresses key strategic issues as follows.

Deploy a Solution for Enterprise that Uses Data Standards

To build an enterprise-wide MES, it is essential to use data standards to connect data to applications across the entire enterprise. To bring different plants’ data together, the MES should include many protocols that support the users’ many applications, equipment, and devices. Some common open standards are: OPC UA (Windows or Linux), OPC DA (Data Access), OPC I, MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport), AMQP, HTTPS, CoAP, SOAP, REST (Representational State Transfer) APIs (Application Program Interfaces), and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) 6180 (e.g., in electrical substations) for connecting to standard data sources and systems (OPC UA leverages MQTT, JSON and is an IEC standard). The most common integration standards are OPC, MQTT, and REST APIs. Also, the ability to easily integrate text files (.csv or .xml) and to integrate other proprietary databases are important. Because there are still many legacy databases, sensors and devices, custom APIs, and SDKs (software development kits) are often necessary. The user should ensure that the software enables the ability to access legacy plant equipment so that data silos are eliminated. The challenge is often to deliver a holistic view of the processes to get an accurate picture of their operations, especially if it involves older assets that are not equipped with sensors or PLCs. Some suppliers have and are working on auto-connection software that automatically senses the type of device and context and connects automatically, minimizing the configuration required.

Companies should also work with standards groups such as Open Group, Open Subsurface Data group to help accelerate open-source technology or tools while protecting the principles and drivers of its community. The group is working to enable data standards for energy providers for collaboration and innovation and avoid fragmentation of data and workflows. ISA-95 and Industry 5.0 groups should also be considered.

Software with Traceability and Product Security

Particularly for regulated industries, it is important that MES has traceability and product security. Track and trace in manufacturing begins with the raw materials and end in the warehouse with the final product, enabling manufacturers to track a product from inception to the final product. Track and trace and product security are particularly important in the pharmaceutical & biotech, food & beverages, chemical and other regulated industries.

Use Hyperscale Technologies

Hyperscale computing is a distributed infrastructure that can quickly accommodate an increased demand for computing resources without requiring additional physical space, cooling, or electrical power. Hyperscale computing is characterized by standardization, automation, redundancy, high-performance computing (HPC) and high availability (HA). The term is often associated with cloud computing and the very large data centers owned by Facebook, Google, Amazon, and IBM. To accommodate such demand, cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) have developed new infrastructures that maximize hardware density, while minimizing the cost of cooling and administrative overhead.

Although hyperscaler platforms can handle Industrial IoT data, devices, and applications, the suppliers of this type of technology may lack deep domain expertise for industrial applications that need to robustly solve in-depth functional problems. For this reason, it may be important to look for providers with a strong history and track record in providing industrial software and many of these providers have partnerships with Microsoft, Google, IBM, and AWS. 
 

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 Research Focus Areas

Strategic Analysis

  • Executive Summary
  • Market Trends
  • Buyer Strategies
  • Supplier Strategies
  • Growth Contributors
  • Growth 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 Revenue Category
    • Software
    • Services
  • Market Shares by Revenue Type
    • Consulting Services
    • Maintenance Services
    • Implementation Services
    • Software as a Service
    • Subscription (non SaaS)
  • Market Shares by Functional Category
    • Plan and Schedule
    • Direct and Operate
    • Inform and Visibility
  • Market Shares by Industry
    • Cement & Glass
    • Chemical
    • Electric Power
    • Food & Beverage
    • Household & Personal Care
    • Metals
    • Mining
    • Oil & Gas
    • Pharmaceutical & Biotech
    • Pulp & Paper
    • Refining
    • Textiles
    • Water & Wastewater
  • Market Shares by Deployment Model
    • Hosted 
    • Cloud
    • On Premise
  • Market Shares by Customer Size
  • Market Shares by Sales Channel

Market Forecasts and Histories

  • Total MES for Process Business
  • Shipments by Region
    • North America
    • Europe, Middle East, Africa
    • Asia
    • Latin America
  • Shipments by Revenue Category
    • Software
    • Services
  • Shipments by Revenue Type
    • Consulting Services
    • Maintenance Services
    • Implementation Services
    • Software as a Service
    • Subscription (non SaaS)
  • Shipments by Functional Category
    • Plan and Schedule
    • Direct and Operate
    • Inform and Visibility
  • Shipments by Industry
    • Cement & Glass
    • Chemical
    • Electric Power
    • Food & Beverage
    • Household & Personal Care
    • Metals
    • Mining
    • Oil & Gas
    • Pharmaceutical & Biotech
    • Pulp & Paper
    • Refining
    • Textiles
    • Water & Wastewater
  • Shipments by Deployment Model
    • Hosted 
    • Cloud
    • On Premise
  • Shipments by Sales Channel
  • Shipments by Customer Size

Industry Participants

The research identifies all relevant suppliers serving this market. 

Regional 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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