The U.S. Pressure Transducer, Transmitter and Sensor Industry, Eighth Edition (Volume 1-3)

THESE THREE REPORTS PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING MARKET INSIGHTS:

• Which communication protocols will be most prominently used with smart pressure transmitters? Hart and proprietary protocol usages are expected to give way to Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus, wireless, and other solutions.
• What will be the trend in usage of multi-variable pressure transmitters & transducers? Expanding market opportunities in both the process and non-process areas are discussed.
• Why is the automotive vehicle market for non-process pressure transducers/transmitters expected to be the most dynamic? Pressure devices are needed in new systems being added to automotive vehicles-in particular a significant market is expected to develop for tire pressure monitoring systems, which will be mandated by the government for new vehicles.
• What is the dominant technology being sold by merchant vendors of component level pressure sensors, and where are the principal markets for these products? Piezoresistive ion implanted semiconductor technology is dominant in the merchant market. These products account a high majority of sales for medical applications, but usage also is very strong in other market segments. There are niches, however, for other technologies.

SCOPE OF REPORTS

Products Covered- Electronic Pressure Measuring Devices:

• Process Industry Transmitters
• Non-Process Transducers & Transmitters
• Component Level Pressure Sensors

Markets Covered- Product shipments to all customer classes in the United States with the following segmentation as appropriate:

• By Types of Measurements-absolute, differential, gauge, for process pressure transmitters
• Differential Process Pressure Transmitters by Flow, Level & Other Applications
• Multivariable Market Shares (for transducers & transmitters)
• Between Low Cost/Non-Repairable, Smart, and Traditional Process Pressure Transmitters
• Smart Process Pressure Transmitters by Digital Communication Protocols (Foundation Fieldbus, HART, Profibus, wireless, other open standard and proprietary protocols)
• By Sensing Technologies (Piezoelectric Types-bonded foil, bonded wire, semiconductor (bonded, diffused, ion implanted), thin film, others; Other Types-fiber optic, piezoelectric, resonant solid state, solid state variable capacitance, variable capacitance, variable reluctance, others.)

By major consuming industries/applications:

• Process pressure transmitters-biotech./pharmaceutical, chemical/ petrochemical, electric power, food/beverage, oil/gas, primary metals, pulp/paper, water/wastewater, others.
• Non-process pressure transducers & transmitters-automotive vehicle, compressors & pumps, computer peripherals, general industrial, HVAC/refrigeration, medical, meteorology, military/aerospace, oil drilling, plastics mfg. Equipment, pneumatics/hydraulics, process controls, R&D laboratory, semiconductor mfg. Equipment, test/measurement, others.
• Component level pressure sensors-automotive vehicle, business equipment, consumer products, general industrial, HVAC/refrigeration, medical, military/aerospace, process controls, others.