Siemens Gets Serious About Energy

2014 was bound to be a year of change at Siemens, the German engineering giant. ​Last year, long-time CFO Joe Kaeser took over as CEO and promised not only to bring profitability back in line with industry peers, like ABB and General Electric, but also to strengthen the company's position in key growth industries, like oil & gas. Earlier this year, Kaeser announced a major company reorganization, effective October 1, that eliminates layers of management and sharpens the company's focus on the North American market, in particular the oil & gas market.

Mentor Graphics Delivers Commercial Mentor Embedded Linux Platform and Graphics Enablement for AMD Embedded Devices

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the availability of the Mentor Embedded Linux software for the AMD Embedded G-Series SoC (previously codenamed: "Steppe Eagle"), CPU (previously codenamed: "Crowned Eagle") and 2nd Generation R-Series APU (previously codenamed: "Bald Eagle") devices. Developers who began evaluation, prototyping, and development by downloading the previously announced and freely available Mentor Embedded Lite and Sourcery CodeBench Lite products can now easily migrate to these new commercially-supported versions.

New ARC Research Report Explores Market Dynamics for General Motion Control

ARC Advisory Group has just completed fresh market analysis research on General Motion Control.  This ARC market research explores current market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year global forecasts for the general motion control market.  This new research is based on ARC's industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modeling techniques.  The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by region and industry.

"Motion control suppliers are facing a market that is undergoing continuous change.  The motion control industry has evolved from a field comprising isolated specialists to a technology that has much wider adoption across many different machinery applications.  Navigating the competitive climate and technological changes, and identifying new opportunities require industrial intelligence.  Developing a strategic roadmap is critical to sustaining viability of a supplier as a competitor in this market," says Sal Spada, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group and principal author of ARC's General Motion Control Market Research.  

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations.  These include:

  • Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel) - personalized spreadsheet includes up to five years of historical data in addition to the current base year market data and five-year market forecast.  This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the data to make it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports.
  • Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF) - provides an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, market forecasts, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, go to www.arcweb.com/market-studies.

New ARC Research Report Explores Market Dynamics for Control Valves in India

ARC Advisory Group has just completed fresh market analysis research on Control Valves in India.   This ARC market research explores current and historical market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year forecasts for the control valves market in India.  This new research is based on ARC's industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modeling techniques.  The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by industry, machinery segmentation, sales channels, and customers. 

"Delivering service capabilities in developing regions is becoming critical as end users are increasingly insisting on strong local services content from control valve suppliers.  Many end users want local service providers included on project implementation teams right from the very beginning.  This project experience helps build the knowledge base of the local partner," says Amruta Kanagali, Analyst, ARC Advisory Group and principal author of ARC's Control Valve Market Research for India study.

This new research is available as a comprehensive Market Outlook Study in PDF format.  It provides an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, market forecasts, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues.  Also includes in-depth quantitative and qualitative research into the current market, future and historical trends, plus competitive analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, go to www.arcweb.com/market-studies.

ARC Advisory Group Announces New Manufacturing Execution Systems Market Research for the Process Industries

ARC Advisory Group has just completed fresh market analysis research on Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) for the Process Industries.  This ARC market research explores current and historical market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year global forecasts for the manufacturing execution systems market for the process industries.  This new research is based on ARC?s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modeling techniques.  The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by region, industry, machinery segmentation, sales channels, and customers. 

Janice Abel, Principal Consultant, ARC Advisory Group and primary author of ARC's Manufacturing Execution Systems for Process Industries Global Market Research study says, "As the manufacturing environment continues to change, MES solutions are also evolving to meet new technology expectations and demands such as cybersecurity, manufacturing intelligence and predictive analytics, visualization, mobility, Cloud, social media, safety, and energy efficiency."

This new research is available in a variety of formats to meet the specific research and budgetary requirements of a wide variety of organizations.  These include:

  • Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel) - personalized spreadsheet includes up to five years of historical data in addition to the current base year market data and five-year market forecast.  This workbook enables licensed users to freely manipulate the data to make it easier to analyze the latest data for business intelligence and generate custom reports.
  • Comprehensive Market Outlook Study (PDF) - provides an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, market forecasts, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues.  Also includes in-depth quantitative and qualitative research into the current market, future and historical trends, plus competitive analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, go to www.arcweb.com/market-studies.

Bedrock Automation Offers New Intelligent and Cyber Secure Standalone Power Supply

Bedrock Automation has added an intelligent, standalone power supply to its growing line of simple, scalable and secure control technologies. Seeking to design the ultimate power supply, Bedrock Automation engineers started with a blank sheet of paper, as they had in designing the Bedrock control system. The resulting universal power supply sets new standards for onboard intelligence, durability, cyber security and physical hardening in a standalone ICS power supply.

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