Table of Contents I. Executive Summary II. The Development of Control System Integration III. Defining Control System Integration IV. How many CSIs Exist? V. Market Size and Growth for Control System Integration VI. Assessing the Market for Control System Integrators a. The North American Market b. Europe, Mideast and African Markets c. The South American Market d. The Asian Market and the Pacific Rim VII. Market Trends in Control System Integration VIII. The Future of Control System Integration …. Since the 1970s, integration of process and machine controls into larger process control systems and enterprise wide business systems has been a growing industry segment in the instrumentation, systems and automation market. By the early 1980s, there was a recognizable group of companies specializing in doing integration of control systems. By the 1990s, control system integrators were a recognized market segment in the industry. With the exception of many articles in industry trade journals such as Control Engineering , InTech and Control Design , and a study by Tom Bullock1, there has been no industry wide attempt to clearly define what a professional Control System Integrator is, what standards and Best Practices they should meet, and how to work with and select a professional Control System Integrator. Beginning in 1997, CSIA, the Control System Integrators Association took the responsibility of defining Control System Integration for the Industry. Their books Selecting a Control System Integrator and Working With a Control System Integrator , and the Registered Member third party audit program are the only organized attempt to set standards and practices for Control System Integrators outside of individual vendor-sponsored programs. CSIA has developed data that indicates that the market for Control System Integration is considerably larger than it had been thought heretofore. CSIA predicts worldwide gross revenues for professional Control System Integrator companies to be US$12 billion per 1 1 Industrial Automation & Control System Integrators, Tom Bullock, from IGI Group, Boston, 2000….

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