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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.

Top 50By 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.

 

Top 50: 2005
Top 50: 2004
We’ve found it nearly impossible to achieve a hard number for “process automation” only, so we’re reporting all automation, and where we have a good idea of what the ratio between process and discrete is, we’ll show that. The data is for 2005, as 2006 numbers are not yet available for many companies.


Top 50




Rank

    




Company Name

    

2005 North
America
(millions)

    


2005
Worldwide
(millions)

    




Comments


1


Emerson Process Management


2,487.5


4,693.4


almost all process

2

Rockwell Automation

1,776.6

3,026.6

mostly discrete; approx. 20% process

3

ABB 

1,534.0

6,669.6

includes discrete; less than 50% process

4

Honeywell Process Solutions/Sensing & Control

1,400.4

2,700.0

mostly process

5

Siemens

 895.4

8,804.1

includes discrete; less than 50% process

6

Invensys

842.0

2,215.8

almost all process

7

Schneider Electric

728.0

3,770.0

mostly discrete

8

GE

628.3

1,453.8

includes discrete; less than 40% process

9

Ametek EIG 

444.7

808.5

mostly process

10

ThermoElectron Measurement & Control 

403.7

672.9

process and lab

11

Flowserve Flow Control Division 

357.7

894.3

mostly process

12

Roper Industries Industrial Technology 

331.1

430.0

mostly process

13

Spectris 

323.8

1,252.2

mostly process

14

MKS Instruments 

320.8

509.3

mostly discrete

15

Danaher Industrial Technologies

320.0

400.0

includes discrete

16

National Instruments 

275.5

571.8

includes discrete

17

Phoenix Contact 

240.0

960.0

includes discrete

18

Omron 

215.2

2,310.0

mostly discrete; Omron “does not pursue” process business in North America

19

Metso Automation 

208.8

745.8

mostly process

20

Yokogawa Electric 

185.3

2,003.8

includes discrete

21

Endress+Hauser 

169.5

1,130.1

almost all process

22

Turck 

109.0

330.2

mostly discrete

23

Aspen Technology 

107.0

269.6

almost all process

24

Yamatake 

85.2

796.6

almost all process

25

Teledyne Instruments 

84.0

158.0

includes process and lab

26

Weidmuller   

78.2

391.2

includes discrete

27

OSIsoft

67.8

113.0

almost all process

28

Pepperl+Fuchs 

67.7

356.2

includes discrete

29

MTL Instruments Group, plc 

62.7

141.0

almost all process

30

Dresser Industrial 

61.8

357.0

almost all process

31

Badger Meter

55.5

64.8

almost all process

32

Bristol Babcock (Emerson)

52.0

80.0

will be shown w/Emerson in 2006

33

MSA 

50.0

80.0

includes all manufacturing

34

Microwave Data Systems 

48.0

60.0

mostly manufacturing

35

MTS

47.0

93.0

mostly discrete

36

CCI (Control Components Inc.) 

45.6

110.2

almost all process

37

IFM Efector 

45.0

300.0

mostly discrete

38

Parker Industrial 

42.0

93.4

includes discrete

39

Mettler-Toledo

37.0

105.0

mostly process

40

Magnetrol

35.0

70.0

almost all process

41

Ohmart-Vega

34.0

74.0

almost all process

42

Tyco Flow Control 

32.5

100.0

almost all process

43

Matrikon 

32.4

60.0

includes all manufacturing

44

SPX Valves & Controls 

28.6

51.5

almost all process

45

Iconics  

26.3

32.0

almost all process

46

Horiba 

26.0

260.0

includes process and lab

47

Prime Measurement Products

26.0

53.0

almost all process

48

Burkert

25.9

287.3

almost all process

49

Cashco 

25.0

30.0

almost all process

50

FMC

24.0

40.0

mostly process


Total

 


15,549.5


50,949.0


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