Rising Industrial PC Market to Stabilize in 2018
2018年全球工業(yè)PC市場將平穩(wěn)發(fā)展

While the global market for industrial PCs has experienced ups and downs in recent years, it is forecast to pick up in 2016 and will start to stabilize in 2018. The key reason for the increase in short-term growth is an expected improvement in the outlook for process industry investment and the continued use of industrial PCs in applications outside the established areas of industrial automation. Global revenue from industrial PCs is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6 percent from 2014 to 2019, reaching $4.3 billion, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight.

全球領(lǐng)先的市場研究公司IHS表示，雖然全球工業(yè)PC市場在最近幾年來起起伏伏，但預(yù)計從2016年開始重拾升勢并在2018年穩(wěn)定發(fā)展。短期增長的主要因素是過程工業(yè)的預(yù)期投資提高以及工業(yè)PC在工業(yè)自動化現(xiàn)有領(lǐng)域之外的持續(xù)應(yīng)用。預(yù)計從2014年至2019年，全球工業(yè)PC將以6%的復(fù)合年增長率增長至43億美元。

“While the world market for industrial PCs has enjoyed relatively strong growth since 2013, recovery is projected to be slower through 2016,” said Rita Liu, manufacturing technology analyst, IHS Technology. “This slowed recovery is based on poor performance of downstream process-industry sectors in the current economic environment, with very low oil prices, a global downturn in mining, and the like.”

“雖然全球工業(yè)PC市場自2013年以來有了相對強勢的發(fā)展，但預(yù)計2016年增長速度將變緩，”IHS制造技術(shù)分析師Rita Liu表示。“增速放緩的原因是在目前經(jīng)濟環(huán)境下，下游過程工業(yè)部門表現(xiàn)不佳，石油價格偏低，以及全球采礦業(yè)衰退等等。”

Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) was still the largest market for industrial PCs in 2014, at $1.2 billion, or 38 percent of the global total, according to the IHS Industrial PCs Intelligence Service. Asia-Pacific was the second-largest market, with estimated revenues of $ 1.1 billion. “It is worth noting that due to the slowing Chinese economy, the Asia-Pacific market for industrial PCs is projected to grow more slowly,” Liu said. “In fact, the Asia-Pacific market is expected to fall behind the American market this year.”

根據(jù)IHS工業(yè)PC情報服務(wù)部的數(shù)據(jù)，在2014年，歐洲、中東和非洲地區(qū)仍然是工業(yè)PC最大市場，容量達(dá)12億美元，占全球總數(shù)的38%。亞太地區(qū)是第二大工業(yè)PC市場，估計營收約為11億美元。Rita Liu表示：“需要注意的是，由于中國經(jīng)濟增長放緩，亞太地區(qū)的工業(yè)PC市場增長預(yù)計會更慢。事實上，今年亞太市場可能會落后于美國市場。”

Of course the performance of the industrial PC market depends largely on the underlying growth in the sectors that use them, including discrete and process manufacturing sectors, as well as building automation, medical, transportation and infrastructure and other non-industrial sectors. Industrial sectors accounted for over half of the world market in 2014 and 2015, and they are expected to grow much more slowly than non-industrial sectors. Generally transportation and infrastructure, medical, and gaming sectors will grow more quickly than the general market through 2019.

當(dāng)然，工業(yè)PC市場的表現(xiàn)很大程度上取決于應(yīng)用行業(yè)的潛在增長，包括離散和過程制造行業(yè)，以及建筑自動化、醫(yī)療、運輸、基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施和其他非工業(yè)領(lǐng)域。2014年和2015年，工業(yè)領(lǐng)域占全球市場的一半以上，其增長預(yù)計要比非工業(yè)領(lǐng)域要慢不少。到2019年，一般運輸和基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施、醫(yī)療和游戲行業(yè)的發(fā)展將比一般市場的增長要快得多。

Robotics is the fastest growing industrial sector for PCs; followed by materials-handling equipment; food, beverage and tobacco machinery; and packaging machinery. “Tobacco and packaging machinery are closely connected with consumer markets and enjoy relatively stable performance, no matter what the overall economic situation might be,” Liu said.

機器人是工業(yè)PC發(fā)展最快的工業(yè)行業(yè)，其次是材料處理設(shè)備、食品飲料和煙草機械和包裝機械行業(yè)。Rita Liu表示，“煙草和包裝機械行業(yè)與消費市場密切相關(guān)，不管總體的經(jīng)濟環(huán)境如何，他們的表現(xiàn)都相對平穩(wěn)。”