ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL SOFTWARE MARKET ANALYSIS

Market Challenges And Opportunities

The increasing demand for energy efficient production process is one of the major drivers which is contributing in the growth of the advance process control software market globally. The improvement of energy efficiency by using the advance process control software primarily helps the companies to reduce the cost of the energy and increase the productivity. Food industry, paper industry, chemical manufacturing product industry are some of the major industries in which the energy cost makes up above 3% of the production cost. Large scale enterprises and SMEs needs to install the advanced process control systems in order to reduce the energy cost. In addition to this, the increasing demand of the software to predict the failure at the component level and improvement of data accuracy which helps to improve the system performance which accelerates the growth of the advance process control software market.

Restraints

Among end-use industries, oil and gas industry segment dominated the global advanced process control software market in 2016 and is projected to retain its dominance throughout the forecast period.  Companies engaged in the oil & gas sector are increasingly inclined toward reducing waste production in order to curtail losses, both in terms of revenue and materials. This increases demand for APC solutions in this sector. Even minor variations in the production process in this highly capital and resource intensive sector can result in major wastage of raw material, which in turn increases production cost. Therefore, industry players are increasingly inclined toward adoption of APC software that provide accurate data processing and help solve complexity related to production.