Global Digital Manufacturing Market offers Immense Growth Potential over the Next Decade, States Frost & Sullivan

LONDON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Manufacturing enterprises in developed economies have been at the forefront of adopting digital manufacturing to streamline production planning and improve their manufacturing efficiency. Digital manufacturing enables end users to compress lead times, reduce production costs, and accelerate new product introductions. An emerging market, the global digital manufacturing market has immense potential for growth and expansion over the next decade.

New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.industrialautomation.frost.com), Analysis of the Global Digital Manufacturing Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $704.2 million in 2012 and is estimated to reach $928.0 million in 2016. The research covers applications in automotive and transportation, aerospace and defence, hi-tech and electronics and industrial machinery.

Developed economies are anticipated to dominate growth over the forecast period, with North America leading the way. The ongoing economic crisis in Europe, however, is likely to deter investments in new automation and control solutions within the region, impacting short-term growth.

"The quest to reduce capital expenditure, shorten lead times, and boost productivity is expected to spur investments in digital manufacturing," noted Frost & Sullivan Industrial Automation and Process Control Senior Research Analyst Karthik Sundaram. "The heightened emphasis on product innovation will catalyse enterprises to cultivate the digital manufacturing path for ensuring consistent business profitability."

At present, the digital manufacturing pursuit is more aligned toward large enterprises. Small and medium businesses do not achieve adequate return-on-investments when they adopt digital manufacturing.

Nevertheless, the trend towards product innovation across all end-user segments will boost market prospects. Besides product design, the ability of manufacturers to generate new products is greatly determined by manufacturing process planning.

"Digital manufacturing provides an able platform for discrete manufacturers to design and validate their manufacturing process in line with new product design and engineering requirements," concluded Sundaram. "This helps in considerable savings on costs incurred by the trial-and-error method that is popularly followed in the manufacturing landscape today."

Frost & Sullivan has recently organised a web conference entitled "The Emergence of Digital Manufacturing" The research expert led a short teleconference about new findings that affect the market.

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