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　　根據IMS最新《全球PLC市場-2011版》的信息，2010年全球PLC方面的收入較2009年有將近30%的提升，達82億美元。

　　“雖然這種復蘇是意料之外，但也不難解釋。”，來自IMS工廠自動化部的分析師Alex Hong 表示。“當經濟環境不景氣的時候，很多進行中的項目停滯，對于自動化產品的需求也隨之停止了。然而，在一些國家，政府的經濟刺激使得在不同層次的產業中獲得了資金。”對于PLC制造商的用戶而言，大多數的工業機器的制造者或者使用者，獲得了資金去采購更多的PLC和其他自動化產品去延續他們的項目，包括在2009年停滯的項目以及后面所開發的新的項目提升了2010年PLC市場的容量。

　　全球PLC市場在2011年得以持續增長，雖然增長速度相比2010年有所放緩。工業品市場存在區域差異。在歐洲，盡管持續并惡化的歐元區主權債務危機讓我們感到失望，但最重要的工業自動化產品市場-德國，卻還能保持一個持續的穩健增長。在美洲，一些來自終端用戶的大型項目和內需增長驅使PLC市場的增長。在亞洲，中國和印度的經濟增長表現相當好，雖然日本在今年上半年受到了地震的影響。

　　然而，考慮到全球經濟的風險，PLC產品的供應商和他們在工業領域的用戶目前對于這種增長能否持續到2012年大都不能確認。這里面有很多因素，如歐洲尚未解決的主權債務危機、在中國收緊的財政政策、日本的地震影響和最近泰國的洪水等，對于這個市場都有著巨大的影響。不過，IMS研究相信PLC市場在2012年仍會增長，主要是因為一些較大的、重要的PLC市場，諸如德國、法國、中國和美國，仍舊在今年表現優異。另外，諸如巴西、印度等新興市場已經占據整體PLC市場50%左右的份額，是對于未來最主要的驅動力。

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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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