IMS预测2012年全球PLC市场仍将保持增长

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　　根据IMS最新《全球PLC市场-2011版》的信息，2010年全球PLC方面的收入较2009年有将近30%的提升，达82亿美元。

　　“虽然这种复苏是意料之外，但也不难解释。”，来自IMS工厂自动化部的分析师Alex Hong 表示。“当经济环境不景气的时候，很多进行中的项目停滞，对于自动化产品的需求也随之停止了。然而，在一些国家，政府的经济刺激使得在不同层次的产业中获得了资金。”对于PLC制造商的用户而言，大多数的工业机器的制造者或者使用者，获得了资金去采购更多的PLC和其他自动化产品去延续他们的项目，包括在2009年停滞的项目以及后面所开发的新的项目提升了2010年PLC市场的容量。

　　全球PLC市场在2011年得以持续增长，虽然增长速度相比2010年有所放缓。工业品市场存在区域差异。在欧洲，尽管持续并恶化的欧元区主权债务危机让我们感到失望，但最重要的工业自动化产品市场-德国，却还能保持一个持续的稳健增长。在美洲，一些来自终端用户的大型项目和内需增长驱使PLC市场的增长。在亚洲，中国和印度的经济增长表现相当好，虽然日本在今年上半年受到了地震的影响。

　　然而，考虑到全球经济的风险，PLC产品的供应商和他们在工业领域的用户目前对于这种增长能否持续到2012年大都不能确认。这里面有很多因素，如欧洲尚未解决的主权债务危机、在中国收紧的财政政策、日本的地震影响和最近泰国的洪水等，对于这个市场都有着巨大的影响。不过，IMS研究相信PLC市场在2012年仍会增长，主要是因为一些较大的、重要的PLC市场，诸如德国、法国、中国和美国，仍旧在今年表现优异。另外，诸如巴西、印度等新兴市场已经占据整体PLC市场50%左右的份额，是对于未来最主要的驱动力。

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Great year for World PLCs in 2010 continues through 2011.

Shanghai, China – 5th Dec. Global revenues from PLCs in 2010 were nearly 30% higher than in 2009, reaching an estimated at 8.2 billion US dollars, according to IMS Research’s latest report “The World Market for PLCs – 2011 Edition”.

The recovery from the downturn happened much earlier than had been generally expected. Most PLC suppliers had been pessimistic on their future business after the economic crisis of 2009 and thought their business would not recover to the level of 2008 until 2013. However, in the event, their business was back on track three years earlier than they had expected; in some countries in developing regions, such as China and India, revenues had grown even in 2009.

 “Although the recovery was unexpected, it is not hard to explain,” said Alex Hong, market research analyst in IMS Research’s industrial factory automation group, “The demand for automation products in many ongoing projects stagnated when investment funding dried up in the economic downturn.  However, government economic stimulus in several countries helped to make money more available at different levels of industry.” The customers for PLC manufacturers, mostly builders or users of industrial machinery, had more access to funding to purchase more PLCs and other automation products to continue with their projects. Both the restart of projects discontinued in 2009 and the start of new ones contributed to the high growth of the PLC market in 2010.

Moving forward growth continued in 2011, though at a lower rate than in 2010. Global PLC revenues have remained high in 2011. However, the industrial markets differed by region. In Europe, despite the continuing and worsening Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, the most important market for industrial automation products – Germany - continued to grow at a healthy rate. In the Americas, large projects from some end-users and growing domestic demand enabled the PLC market to grow, though the market in Latin Americas is still underdeveloped. In Asia, the markets in the growing economies of China and India have performed quite well, though that of Japan was hit by the consequences of the earthquake earlier in the year. In general, the growth of the global economy in 2011 underpinned the global growth of the PC market.

However, PLC suppliers and their industrial customers are currently very uncertain whether growth will continue into 2012, considering the risks to the world economy. Many factors, such as Europe’s unresolved sovereign debt crisis, tightening economic policy in China, and the consequences of the earthquake in Japan and the recent floods in Thailand, are affecting the market.  However, IMS Research believes that the PLC market will still grow in 2012, mainly because many large and important PLC markets, such as Germany, France, China and the US, are still performing well at the turn of the year. In addition, emerging markets, such as Brazil, and India, which already account for half the entire PLC market, will be the main driving force for future growth.

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