Rising Industrial PC Market to Stabilize in 2018
2018年全球工业PC市场将平稳发展

While the global market for industrial PCs has experienced ups and downs in recent years, it is forecast to pick up in 2016 and will start to stabilize in 2018. The key reason for the increase in short-term growth is an expected improvement in the outlook for process industry investment and the continued use of industrial PCs in applications outside the established areas of industrial automation. Global revenue from industrial PCs is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6 percent from 2014 to 2019, reaching $4.3 billion, according to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of critical information and insight.

全球领先的市场研究公司IHS表示，虽然全球工业PC市场在最近几年来起起伏伏，但预计从2016年开始重拾升势并在2018年稳定发展。短期增长的主要因素是过程工业的预期投资提高以及工业PC在工业自动化现有领域之外的持续应用。预计从2014年至2019年，全球工业PC将以6%的复合年增长率增长至43亿美元。

“While the world market for industrial PCs has enjoyed relatively strong growth since 2013, recovery is projected to be slower through 2016,” said Rita Liu, manufacturing technology analyst, IHS Technology. “This slowed recovery is based on poor performance of downstream process-industry sectors in the current economic environment, with very low oil prices, a global downturn in mining, and the like.”

“虽然全球工业PC市场自2013年以来有了相对强势的发展，但预计2016年增长速度将变缓，”IHS制造技术分析师Rita Liu表示。“增速放缓的原因是在目前经济环境下，下游过程工业部门表现不佳，石油价格偏低，以及全球采矿业衰退等等。”

Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) was still the largest market for industrial PCs in 2014, at $1.2 billion, or 38 percent of the global total, according to the IHS Industrial PCs Intelligence Service. Asia-Pacific was the second-largest market, with estimated revenues of $ 1.1 billion. “It is worth noting that due to the slowing Chinese economy, the Asia-Pacific market for industrial PCs is projected to grow more slowly,” Liu said. “In fact, the Asia-Pacific market is expected to fall behind the American market this year.”

根据IHS工业PC情报服务部的数据，在2014年，欧洲、中东和非洲地区仍然是工业PC最大市场，容量达12亿美元，占全球总数的38%。亚太地区是第二大工业PC市场，估计营收约为11亿美元。Rita Liu表示：“需要注意的是，由于中国经济增长放缓，亚太地区的工业PC市场增长预计会更慢。事实上，今年亚太市场可能会落后于美国市场。”

Of course the performance of the industrial PC market depends largely on the underlying growth in the sectors that use them, including discrete and process manufacturing sectors, as well as building automation, medical, transportation and infrastructure and other non-industrial sectors. Industrial sectors accounted for over half of the world market in 2014 and 2015, and they are expected to grow much more slowly than non-industrial sectors. Generally transportation and infrastructure, medical, and gaming sectors will grow more quickly than the general market through 2019.

当然，工业PC市场的表现很大程度上取决于应用行业的潜在增长，包括离散和过程制造行业，以及建筑自动化、医疗、运输、基础设施和其他非工业领域。2014年和2015年，工业领域占全球市场的一半以上，其增长预计要比非工业领域要慢不少。到2019年，一般运输和基础设施、医疗和游戏行业的发展将比一般市场的增长要快得多。

Robotics is the fastest growing industrial sector for PCs; followed by materials-handling equipment; food, beverage and tobacco machinery; and packaging machinery. “Tobacco and packaging machinery are closely connected with consumer markets and enjoy relatively stable performance, no matter what the overall economic situation might be,” Liu said.

机器人是工业PC发展最快的工业行业，其次是材料处理设备、食品饮料和烟草机械和包装机械行业。Rita Liu表示，“烟草和包装机械行业与消费市场密切相关，不管总体的经济环境如何，他们的表现都相对平稳。”