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Fifty automation companies worth watching
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For this edition of the Top 50, we've rewritten the rules. Check out which companies made the list, as ARC and CONTROL magazine count down the Top 50 automation companies in the industry.
By Walt Boyes, Editor in Chief, and Larry O’Brien, Research Director Process Automation, ARC Advisory Group
IT HAS BEEN getting harder and harder to produce a Process Automation Top Fifty for North America. In the first place, the lines are blurring between process, batch and discrete automation, and in the second place, the automation business, along with all manufacturing, has become increasingly global in scope. For this edition of the Top Fifty, we’ve rewritten the rules. Here’s what we are including in our definition of the fifty largest companies:
- North American revenues, broken out from global revenues
- Process automation systems and related hardware software and services
- PLC business, as well as related hardware, software, services, I/O and bundled HMI
- Other control hardware components, such as third party I/O, signal conditioners, intrinsic safety barriers, networking hardware, unit controllers and single and multiloop controllers
- Process safety systems
- SCADA systems for oil and gas, water and wastewater, and power distribution
- AC drives
- General motion control systems (GMC)
- Computer numerical control (CNC) systems
- Process field instrumentation, such as temperature and pressure transmitters, flowmeters, level transmitters and associated switches
- Analytical equipment, including process electrochem, all types of IR technology, gas chromatographs for industrial manufacturing and related products
- Control valves, actuators and positioners
- Discrete sensors and actuators
- All kinds of automation-related software, from advanced process control, simulation and optimization to third-party HMI, plant asset management, production management (MES), ERP integration packages from the major automation suppliers and similar software
- All other automation-related services provided by the automation suppliers
- Condition-monitoring equipment and systems
- Ancillary systems, such as burner management systems, QCSs for pulp and paper, etc.
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What we’re not including are
- Pumps and motors
- Robotics
- Material-handling systems
- Supply chain management software
- Building automation systems
- Fire and security systems
- Processing equipment such as mixers, vessels, heaters, etc., as well as process design licenses from suppliers that have engineering divisions
- Electrical equipment such as low-voltage switchgear, etc.
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2 |
Rockwell Automation |
1,776.6 |
3,026.6 |
mostly discrete; approx. 20% process | ||||
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3 |
ABB |
1,534.0 |
6,669.6 |
includes discrete; less than 50% process | ||||
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4 |
Honeywell Process Solutions/Sensing & Control |
1,400.4 |
2,700.0 |
mostly process
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5 |
Siemens |
895.4 |
8,804.1 |
includes discrete; less than 50% process | ||||
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6 |
Invensys |
842.0 |
2,215.8 |
almost all process | ||||
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7 |
Schneider Electric |
728.0 |
3,770.0 |
mostly discrete | ||||
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8 |
GE |
628.3 |
1,453.8 |
includes discrete; less than 40% process | ||||
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9 |
Ametek EIG |
444.7 |
808.5 |
mostly process | ||||
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10 |
ThermoElectron Measurement & Control |
403.7 |
672.9 |
process and lab
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11 |
Flowserve Flow Control Division |
357.7 |
894.3 |
mostly process | ||||
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12 |
Roper Industries Industrial Technology |
331.1 |
430.0 |
mostly process | ||||
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13 |
Spectris |
323.8 |
1,252.2 |
mostly process | ||||
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14 |
MKS Instruments |
320.8 |
509.3 |
mostly discrete | ||||
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15 |
Danaher Industrial Technologies |
320.0 |
400.0 |
includes discrete | ||||
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16 |
National Instruments |
275.5 |
571.8 |
includes discrete | ||||
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17 |
Phoenix Contact |
240.0 |
960.0 |
includes discrete | ||||
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18 |
Omron |
215.2 |
2,310.0 |
mostly discrete; Omron “does not pursue” process business in North America | ||||
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19 |
Metso Automation |
208.8 |
745.8 |
mostly process | ||||
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20 |
Yokogawa Electric |
185.3 |
2,003.8 |
includes discrete | ||||
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21 |
Endress+Hauser |
169.5 |
1,130.1 |
almost all process | ||||
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22 |
Turck |
109.0 |
330.2 |
mostly discrete | ||||
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23 |
Aspen Technology |
107.0 |
269.6 |
almost all process | ||||
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24 |
Yamatake |
85.2 |
796.6 |
almost all process | ||||
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25 |
Teledyne Instruments |
84.0 |
158.0 |
includes process and lab | ||||
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26 |
Weidmuller |
78.2 |
391.2 |
includes discrete | ||||
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27 |
OSIsoft |
67.8 |
113.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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28 |
Pepperl+Fuchs |
67.7 |
356.2 |
includes discrete | ||||
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29 |
MTL Instruments Group, plc |
62.7 |
141.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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30 |
Dresser Industrial |
61.8 |
357.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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31 |
Badger Meter |
55.5 |
64.8 |
almost all process | ||||
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32 |
Bristol Babcock (Emerson) |
52.0 |
80.0 |
will be shown w/Emerson in 2006 | ||||
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MSA |
50.0 |
80.0 |
includes all manufacturing | ||||
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34 |
Microwave Data Systems |
48.0 |
60.0 |
mostly manufacturing | ||||
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35 |
MTS |
47.0 |
93.0 |
mostly discrete | ||||
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36 |
CCI (Control Components Inc.) |
45.6 |
110.2 |
almost all process | ||||
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37 |
IFM Efector |
45.0 |
300.0 |
mostly discrete | ||||
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38 |
Parker Industrial |
42.0 |
93.4 |
includes discrete | ||||
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39 |
Mettler-Toledo |
37.0 |
105.0 |
mostly process | ||||
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40 |
Magnetrol |
35.0 |
70.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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41 |
Ohmart-Vega |
34.0 |
74.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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42 |
Tyco Flow Control |
32.5 |
100.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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43 |
Matrikon |
32.4 |
60.0 |
includes all manufacturing | ||||
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44 |
SPX Valves & Controls |
28.6 |
51.5 |
almost all process | ||||
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45 |
Iconics |
26.3 |
32.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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46 |
Horiba |
26.0 |
260.0 |
includes process and lab | ||||
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47 |
Prime Measurement Products |
26.0 |
53.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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48 |
Burkert |
25.9 |
287.3 |
almost all process | ||||
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49 |
Cashco |
25.0 |
30.0 |
almost all process | ||||
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FMC |
24.0 |
40.0 |
mostly process | ||||
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