The constant drive towards greater profits has, in the past few years, led to huge investment in process control systems and components in fields as diverse as oil and gas processing to the food and drink and pharmaceutical industries. There's no doubt that good process control strategies are essential to help manufacturers and producers in all sectors meet the required demand at the right price - whether they are large-scale continuous processing operations or those producing large numbers of smaller, discrete, consumable end products. Indeed, a recent report by US advisory group ARC concluded that 'the worldwide market for process automation systems is expected to grow at a compounded market rate of 9.8 per cent over the next five years'.
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