The Automation Industries
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The document discusses the automation industry, highlighting five interlocked market areas such as test and measurement and control systems. It notes the industry's large, fragmented market with significant disparities in company sizes and identifies key market drivers and issues including globalization and lower margins. Predictions include the introduction of new sensors and control strategies, ongoing consolidation, and the emergence of new entrepreneurs and technologies.
The Automation Industries
- 1. The Automation Industries Walt Boyes Editor in Chief
- 2. Five Interlocked Market Areas Test and Measurement Field Sensors Valves and other final control elements Control Systems Manufacturing software
- 3. The Marketspace Large Growing Fragmented Entrepreneur-driven
- 4. The Control Top 50 Top 10 companies are very large Huge disparity between size of companies 1-5 and 45-50 Many niche companies Also true throughout all of the interlocking markets
- 5. Market Drivers Profitability Globalization Productivity Agility Enterprise integration
- 6. Market Issues Lower margins COTS Commoditization Customer consolidation Purchasing rationalization Demographics crisis
- 7. Niche Players Finding profitable niches Maximizing differentiation Escaping the consolidation cycle Working with the big fish
- 8. Market Predictions New sensors New control strategies More “Lego” style software and firmware Easier integration with business systems using standards
- 9. Market Predictions Consolidation/deconstruction cycle continues New entrepreneurs, new technologies
- 10. The Automation Industries Walt Boyes Editor in Chief