Venture Development Corp. (Market Trends).(Brief Article)

Sensors Magazine, June, 2002 by Goode, Barbara G.

According to Venture Development Corp. (VDC, Natick, MA, www.vdccorp.com), control system suppliers are becoming increasingly dominant in markets for distributed/remote I/O products. Comparison of current and 1998 data shows that this trend is fairly consistent and is not affected significantly by market movements embracing openness and interoperability.

A new report, "Global Markets and User Needs for Industrial Distributed/Remote I/O, Second Edition," identifies two categories of vendors in this market: control system suppliers and independent component suppliers. When the former sell distributed/remote I/O products, they bundle them with entire control systems (with an eye toward revenues from service, spare parts, and expansion projects), and software...

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