According to ARC Advisory Group’s new report, the discrete automation market roared back during 2021, recovering much of the losses incurred after a significant drop due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Going forward, the outlook remains positive for capital investments in automation products and software in discrete industries due to the macro trends that underlie the growth in this market remain in place. These trends include globalization, infrastructure expansion, an aging installed base of automation equipment, manufacturing labor shortages, digitalization, an increasing middle class in Asia, and the ongoing need to improve production, process controllability, and reduce energy consumption.

"Digitalization already has a marked impact on industrial operations. Each year, new products and capabilities provide higher value, driving investments in new equipment. Features are incorporated to control production processes more precisely, improve functionalities, reduce energy consumption, expand operational visibility, increase plant safety, and provide contextualized and time-relevant information to improve management and production floor decisions. As a result, automation products and software deployed in the discrete industries are improving product quality and operational efficiency," according to Allen Avery Senior Analyst and key author of ARC's Automation and Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Market Research.

Automation and Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Software-defined Everything
• MTP Adds Flexibility and Scalability 
• Moving to the Edge
• More IO to Gather More Information 
• Industrial 5G
• Expect More Frequent Migration 
• Energy Efficiency Regulations
• Connect to the Cloud
• Configurable/Characterizable I/O
• Communications Will Become More Standardized and Universal 
• Cloud Computing

Leading Suppliers to the Automation and Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: ABB, FANUC, Mitsubishi Electric, Rockwell Automation, Siemens.

About the Automation and Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Research    

The Automation and Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends and identifies leading technology suppliers. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts and 5 years of historical analysis. The report segmentation includes World Region, Industry, and Product Type.

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 Power Pivot): A standard Workbook includes the base year market data and a 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. Available with 5 years of historical analysis.
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF): This wide-screen presentation format makes it much easier to find detailed information on a market. This new format provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

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Despite the decline in the capital expenditure in 2020 in process industries, primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the outlook remains positive for capital investments in automation products and software in the process industries. This is because the macro trends that underlie the growth in this market remain in place. These trends include globalization, infrastructure expansion, an aging installed base of automation equipment, manufacturing labor shortages, digitalization, an increasing middle class in Asia, and the ongoing need to improve production and process controllability and reduce energy consumption.

"Digitalization already has a marked impact on industrial operations. Each year, new products and capabilities provide higher value, driving investments in new equipment. Features are incorporated to control production processes more precisely, improve functionalities, reduce energy consumption, expand operational visibility, increase plant safety, and provide contextualized and time-relevant information to improve management and production floor decisions. As a result, automation products and software deployed in the process industries are improving product quality and operational efficiency," according to Himanshu, Shah Senior Analyst and key author of ARC's Automation and Software Expenditures for Process Industries Market Research Report.

Process Automation Market Trends

In addition to providing detailed competitive market share data, the report also addresses key market trends as follows:

• Virtualization 
• Software Convergence
• Operations Management
• Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) Convergence 
• Open Process Automation
• OPC UA and OPC UA TSN
• Moving to the Edge
• Industry 4.0 and NAMUR Open Architecture 
• Fieldbus Technology and Wireless I/O
• Configurable/Characterizable I/O 
• Cloud Computing

Leading Suppliers to the Total Automation Expenditures for Process Market Identified

In addition to providing specific market data and industry trends, this ARC market research also identifies and positions the leading suppliers to this market and provides and summarizes their relevant offerings. An alphabetical list of key suppliers covered in this analysis includes: ABB, Emerson Automation Solutions, Honeywell, Rockwell Automation, Siemens.

About the Automation Expenditures for Process Industries Research

The Automation and Software Expenditures for Process Industries report explores the current and future market performance and related technology and business trends. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts and 5 years of historical analysis segmented by World Region, Industry, and Product Type.

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 Power Pivot): A standard Workbook includes the base year market data and a 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. Available with 5 years of historical analysis.
• Concise Market Analysis Report (PDF): This wide-screen presentation format makes it much easier to find detailed information on a market. This new format provides executives, business unit managers, and other authorized users with immediate access to in-depth market analysis, including analysis associated with every market data chart and figure. Included is an executive-level summary of the current market dynamics, five-year market forecast, and competitive analysis, plus an overview of strategic issues. The PDF is available with a comprehensive set of charts with associated analysis.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries market reveals that the outlook remains positive for capital investments in automation products and software in discrete industries.  This is because the macro trends that underlie the growth in this market remain in place.   These trends include globalization, infrastructure expansion, emerging economies, digitalization, an increasing middle class in Asia, and the ongoing need to improve production and process controllability and reduce energy consumption.

“Each year, new products and capabilities provide higher value, driving investments in new equipment.  Features are incorporated to control production processes more precisely, improve functionalities, reduce energy consumption, expand operational visibility, increase plant safety, and provide contextualized and time-relevant information to improve management and production floor decisions.  As a result, automation products and software deployed in many discrete industries are improving production quality and efficiency,” according to Himanshu Shah, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Global Market Research report.

“The industrial automation and software for discrete industries embraces the emerging technology trends, such as Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0, and digitalization to support the market demand for unscheduled downtime prevention, higher productivity, and energy efficiency,” added Shah.

About the Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Research

This ARC 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 automation & software expenditures for discrete industries market.  This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques.  The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by region, industry, and product categories.

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 a:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel) – personalized spreadsheet includes up to three 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.  The PDF is available with or without detailed charts.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

New ARC Advisory Group research on Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries reveals that the future outlook remains positive for capital investments in automation products and software in discrete industries.  This is because the macro-trends that underlie the growth in this market remain in place.

“Globalization, infrastructure expansion, emerging economies, and an increasing middle class in Asia; plus the ongoing need to improve production and process controllability and reduce energy consumption will drive the growth of automation and software investments in discrete industries,” according to Himanshu Shah, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Global Market Research 2017-2022 report.

“The industrial automation and software for discrete industries embraces the emerging technology trends, such as Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0, and digitalization to support the market demand for unscheduled downtime prevention, higher productivity, and energy efficiency,” added Shah.

About the Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Research

This ARC 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 automation & software expenditures for discrete industries 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, industry, and product categories (PLC, CNC, GMC, HMI, MES, EAM, low and medium voltage AC drives, machine safeguarding, etc.). 

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 a:

• 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.  The PDF is available with or without detailed charts.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the automation and software expenditures in the process industries market reveals that after back-to-back years of decline, the global process automation market entered recovery mode during 2017, although with lackluster growth.  The short-term outlook remains the same as the global market continues to face long-term economic uncertainty.

“Much of the growth seen in the global automation market during 2017 can be attributed to new construction from developing markets in Asia.  All Asian markets except Japan saw year-over-year growth.  The rebound in the Chinese automation market accounted for much of this growth, but other developing markets in Asia also experienced year-over-year growth,” according to Allen Avery, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Automation & Software Expenditures in the Process Industries Global Market Research report.

“Despite the recent return to growth in major global economies and rising prices for key commodities, major end users remain uncertain about how long these rallies will last as they face a potential trade war, and producers ramping up production once again in response to the rising commodity prices,” added Avery.

About the Automation and Software Expenditures in the Process Industries Research

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 process automation 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, industry, and product type. 

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 a:

• Market Intelligence Workbook (Excel) – personalized spreadsheet includes 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.  The PDF is available with or without detailed charts.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

New ARC Advisory Group research reveals that the future outlook remains positive for automation products and software expenditures in discrete industries. This is because the macro-trends that underlie the growth in this market remain in place.

“Globalization, infrastructure expansion, emerging economies, and an increasing middle class in Asia; plus the ongoing need to improve production and process controllability and reduce energy consumption will drive the growth of automation and software investments in discrete industries,” according to Himanshu Shah, Senior Analyst at ARC Advisory Group and key author of ARC’s Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries Global Market Research report.

About the Automation Expenditures for Discrete Industries Market Research

This ARC research explores current and historical market performance and related technology and business trends, identifies leading technology suppliers, and provides five-year global and regional forecasts for the Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries market. This new research is based on ARC’s industry-leading market research database, extensive primary and secondary research, and proprietary economic modelling techniques. The research includes competitive analysis, plus five-year market forecasts by region, industry, and product categories (PLC, CNC, GMC, HMI, MES, EAM, Low- and Medium-Voltage AC Drives, Machine Safeguarding, etc.).

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 a:

• 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. The PDF is available with or without detailed charts.

For more information on this and other available ARC market research, please visit our Market Data & Studies section.

ARC Advisory Group has just completed fresh market analysis research on Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries. 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 Automation & Software Expenditures for Discrete Industries 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. 

Himanshu Shah, Senior Analyst, ARC Advisory Group and principal author of this report says, “The future outlook remains positive for automation products and software expenditures in discrete industries because the macro-trends that underlie the growth in this market are still in place.  These trends include globalization, improving production and process controllability, reducing energy consumption, infrastructure expansion, emerging economies, and an increasing middle class in Asia. ARC’s expectation is that the market will continue to expand.”

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/.