an face="">Recently ARC studies have indicated that PLC and PAC market in 2014 to achieve global expansion. Especially China and North America become the growth engine. However, taking into account the current economic development, ARC is expected to grow in the market in 2015 and 2016 is not optimistic, the main reason is that the BRIC countries is no longer a growth factor.

An increasing number of PLC/PAC vendors are paying attention to the 52000000 installed capacity of PLC, a large part of which will end the service life in the next five years. "While in recent years the market share of suppliers in the region is fairly constant, but the stagnant market and the problems that have been installed near the use of the cycle are extremely urgent and are likely to change the PLC market structure in the next few years." ARC latest "Global Market Research Report" author FlorianGuldner analysis.

Programmable logic controller and programmable automation controller based on PLC are the most widely used controller industry in discrete manufacturing industry. In the manufacturing process, PLC does the auxiliary activity, PAC plays the function of increasing the infiltration process control. They are widely used in conveyors, to robots, batch management and control, distributed process control.

In recent years, with the global economic slowdown and the large proportion of the controller has been abandoned, the market demands to make PLC become one of the major alternatives. In addition, the user is increasingly based on software to buy decision and service, rather than PLC/PAC hardware, so in many cases this has become a commodity form. Just like arc found in after the latest discussions of PLC/PAC research and markets. These changing market conditions is refers to the automation suppliers must either adapt or lose market share. This latest research has now broken the provider of software and services revenue, helping PLC/PAC suppliers and the original equipment manufacturers can have better decisions.

Growing importance of software and services

Software and services are becoming increasingly important for PLC vendors and end users. End users more use of the software to clearly realize the needs of the hardware. PLC related services have become more important. Many users are going to outsource most of their maintenance, training or spare parts business. In order to focus on their core competitiveness, more effective use of engineering resources, the end user has outsourced more PLC related services, such as configuration, training and maintenance.

Installed base

ARC estimates that the current PLC has 52000000 installed capacity, which is expected to reach 6500 in 2019. A large proportion of the micro PLC, to become the largest group in terms of PLC.

During the forecast period, most of the PLC sales are for the end of the service life of the product. The compatibility between different manufacturers of engineering tools and programs becomes increasingly important.

ARC believes that in the long term future PLC and PAC based PLC technology, the supplier's market share will be determined in the next few years. In the PLC/PAC market, suppliers, OEM and end users are faced with different problems. Machine manufacturers have more priority than users. PLC suppliers must work closely with their customers to maintain their market position. Key issues involved in this research, for example:

1 how can the supplier provide a valuable decision?

2 the installation and transformation of the need for a new strategy?

3 do you need a new distribution channel?