Frost & Sullivan Predicts Growth for the Global Industrial Computers Market

Frost & Sullivan Predicts Growth for the Global Industrial Computers Market PR Newswire LONDON, Sept. 12, 2012 - Increasing competitiveness raises the need for industrial computers LONDON, Sept. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Owing to the rapid growth of computer and communication technology, manufacturing areas are becoming more automated, increasingly deploying intelligent devices to monitor and control unmanned facilities. As competition has intensified across all industries, companies need to increase their process efficiency, quality and productivity. Key factors to establishing successful automation systems include faster and more reliable networking solutions, such as industrial computers. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Analysis of the Global Industrial Computers Market, (www.industrialautomation.frost.com), finds that the global industrial computers market earned revenues of $2134.4 million in 2011 and estimates this to reach $3,216.6 million in 2015. "Currently, competition has intensified across all industries, leading companies to increase their process efficiency, quality and productivity, and thus raising the need for industrial computers, - notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Katarzyna Owczarczyk. - In each industry, automation systems have progressed beyond programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to include robotics or machine vision systems.