Manufacturing enterprises in developed economies have been at the forefront of adopting digital manufacturing to streamline production planning and improve their manufacturing efficiency. Digital manufacturing enables end users to compress lead times, reduce production costs, and accelerate new product introductions. An emerging market, the global digital manufacturing market has immense potential for growth and expansion over the next decade.

The oil and gas industry is the largest revenue generator for the industrial valves and actuators market, globally. As a result, the exploration of new oil and gas fields, with the corresponding increase in investments in refineries and pipelines in key growth regions, is likely to have a high impact on market prospects. The market will also benefit from the rising demand for automation and infrastructure modernisation.

Printed electronics are rapidly gaining popularity across applications for their benefits of low cost, high throughput, ease of manufacturing, and use in new applications. Industries are strongly backing innovations in this domain due to the technology’s ability to enable different low-end commercial applications by complementing, instead of replacing, silicon microelectronics.

The increasing number of fiber cable network deployments has spurred demand for fiber optic test equipment (FOTE) globally. Fiber optic communication is quickly becoming the future of network and communication, and the optic network will soon be the framework of every industry. As such, testing for insertion loss and bandwidth is vital in order to ensure effective real-time operations. This presents the global FOTE market with immense growth oppo...

Microelectronics is one of the most important sectors of the economy and industry, and its development is essential to support country competitiveness at the macroeconomic level. In recent years, Russia has paid special attention to the development of microelectronics from both the public and private sectors. The government and private companies have established extensive support programmes and proclaimed ambitious goals to support the industry. ...

Evolving energy legislation, paralleled by the need to regulate energy costs and improve efficiency, is boosting the uptake of micro electric drives. These trends will be reinforced by technological changes and advances in the networking capabilities of micro electric drives. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Analysis of the Micro Electric Drives Market in Europe, finds that the market earned revenues of $516.8 million in 2012 and estimates thi...

The overall value of investments in information and communication technology from the European banking sector is expected to remain almost unchanged over the next five years. Nevertheless, banks in Europe are likely to allocate more resources for IT services and software systems to enhance operational efficiency and customer-centric processes.

The evolving smart energy market offers significant potential for Information & Communication Technology solutions. In the last two years, the industry has seen both ICT and energy vendors positioning themselves for such an opportunity. Frost & Sullivan believes that vendors’ ambitions and smart energy value propositions dictate the long term success.

The intensifying need for energy-efficient motors to reduce operational costs is a key driver in the European fractional horse power (FHP) and integrated horse power (IHP) motors market. Mandatory regulations related to motor energy-efficiency are further boosting growth prospects.

The European market for mechanical power transmissions is well established and its technology mature. While there is unlikely to be any major product innovation, manufacturers continue to strive for small design improvements that will further enhance product performance, reliability, error-free operation and product lifetime.

Advances in key technologies such as synchronous optical networking/synchronous digital hierarchy and Ethernet over SONET, as well as the deployment of 40 and 100 gigabit networks are expected to considerably boost the demand for bit error rate testers globally. The market will particularly benefit from the communication and IT industries’ increasing adoption of digital technologies such as high definition multimedia interface and digital audio...

A substantial number of customers subscribe to broadband and wireless local area network services that enable them to conduct various activities from home. This connected home represents a paradigm shift in the way communication services are delivered and consumed. As the connected device market grows more sensitive to these networking needs, it needs to depend on a strong network and supply chain to distribute content and services, thereby lendi...

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan on Opportunities in the Micropayments Market finds that the growth of micropayments solutions will be driven by the usage of pre-paid, contactless, and mobile payment solutions. The analysis determines that use of contactless payment cards systems in Europe is expected to increase at a compound annual growth rate of 28.7 per cent from 2011 to 2017. Likewise, with the massive adoption of smartphones and increasin...

The need to improve user safety, process control, efficiency and productivity is fuelling the adoption of electric drives in the global elevator, crane and hoist segments. In addition to the benefits it offers, falling prices will also encourage the uptake of electric drives across these segments. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Global Electric Drives Market in the Elevator, Crane and Hoist Segments, finds that the market earned revenues of $...

Frost & Sullivan have today announced their new analysis, Analysis of the Global Industrial Machine Vision Market, which finds that the market earned revenue of $4.50 billion in 2012 and estimates this to reach $6.75 billion in 2016. The study covers the segments of vision systems, industrial cameras, frame grabber, optics & illumination systems, and machine vision software.

The mobile payments market is taking a new step towards simpler and cost-effective solutions. Recently introduced payment options using mobile phones integrate near-field communication technology with a cloud-based system. With this approach, cardholders’ account details will no longer be stored on a secure element within a mobile phone, but will instead be maintained in the cloud. Frost & Sullivan believes that successful combinations of NFC a...

Policy changes in the renewable energy sector and the ongoing debt crisis are set to have a profound impact on the market for frequency inverters in the solar and wind energy industries across Europe. While the reduction in subsidies is expected to dampen the European market in the near future, low maintenance costs and the promise of high returns on investment will buoy frequency inverter market revenues during this turbulent phase. Unlike Europ...

Frost & Sullivan announce a new analysis, Electric Drives in Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS Market. The analysis finds that the demand for industrial automation, rising energy costs and improved understanding of the advantages of electric drives will encourage their uptake across Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS over 2012-2016.

With the introduction of stringent safety requirements in developed countries, demand for machine safety solutions is expected to rise significantly. The growth of manufacturing sectors in emerging countries fuels further adoption. Manufacturers world-wide recognise that machine safety can give them a competitive advantage and a good public image, and therefore, opt for machine safety systems despite the economic downturn.

A new analysis from Frost & Sullivan, entitled: 'Strategic Analysis of the European Centrifugal Pumps Market' finds that energy efficient centrifugal pumps are well poised to survive the instability of the market. The Frost & Sullivan analysis found that the market achieved revenues of $6.95 billion in 2011 which is predicted to reach $7.57 billion in 2016.