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“VDC’s research provides us with comprehensive analysis of the touch screen sensors market. Their deep industry knowledge and broad product coverage offer actionable insights helping make well-informed strategic business decisions.”
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The Industrial Automation practice has covered the market for a diverse set of sensing, networking and control technologies for nearly four decades and is proud to have served virtually every leading supplier of industrial automation technologies. Since establishing the practice not long after the inception of the firm in 1971, the practice has helped its clients evolve their offerings to serve a world of manufacturing that is increasingly digital, networked, and integrated into other parts of the enterprise. Our experience has given us a keen awareness of the unique set of issues and opportunities faced by industrial automation technology suppliers. These include the wide variation in customer needs and requirements that are specific to each geographic, vertical and application market, the continuous battles that are fought over standards - both open and proprietary, and the tension that exists between the pace at which new technologies are currently emerging and customers' ability and willingness to invest in them. The practice's coverage evolves continuously to ensure it is positioned to advise clients on an ever-changing set of technical and commercial issues that are unique to the global markets for industrial sensing, networking and control technologies. Our coverage of each market is extremely comprehensive, often including detailed analyses of the supplier community, the channels, and a large body of direct end-user feedback.
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