industrial//industrial ecosystem//automation vendor

The companies that sell the components of automation: PLC, DCS, HMI, SCADA, drives (VFD), remote I/O, instrumentation, networking and software. Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, ABB, Emerson, Honeywell, Yokogawa.

The companies that sell the components of automation: PLC, DCS, HMI, SCADA, drives (VFD), remote I/O, instrumentation, networking and software. Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, ABB, Emerson, Honeywell, Yokogawa.

Their customers are plants, EPCs, integrators and OEMs, through any of the commercial chains (industrial ecosystem).

Each big vendor owns an ecosystem: its own industrial Ethernet (PROFINET for Siemens, EtherNet/IP for Rockwell, CC-Link IE for Mitsubishi), its own engineering tools, its own DCS platform. Choosing a vendor is choosing a network, a toolchain and the integrators who know them (industrial Ethernet).

The strategic incentive follows: the more integrated a plant is with one vendor's software, the higher its switching cost, and the longer the vendor earns on the aftermarket.