Bochum, Germany, May 18th 2010. This year 10% of the machine-builders intend to implement IO-Link at the machines.

IO-Link is a field bus-neutral interface, which makes the existing point-to-point connection between I/O modules and sensors able to communicate omitting an additional core.

71% of the machine-builders gave a positive feedback to IO-Link according to a survey by Quest TechnoMarketing, comprising over 300 machine-builders in 2007. Then the economic crisis curbed the interest of using IO-Link. In 2009 only 7% of the machine-builders planned to change to IO-Link.

As the Quest Trend Magazine further publishes on www.quest-trendmagazin.de/Trend-to-IO-Link-slightly-impr...., the trend to IO-Link is again slightly improving this year. 10% of the machine-builders are ready to implement IO-Link this year. Also the broadness of this implementation has increased. In eight out of ten investigated sectors machine-builders want to introduce IO-Link. Last year just five sectors had been concerned.

All articles are published in German and English language.

So the Quest Trend Magazine makes the machine-builders’ decisions easier. Now the machine-builders can compare their intended changes with the trends in their own sector confirming or adjusting their intentions.

The suppliers of automation technology are learning beyond their constituency, which changes in IO-Link the machinery industry as a whole is aiming for this year. This enables the suppliers to meet the demand trends in time and purposefully.

The trends from the users’ point of view are based on market surveys of Quest TechnoMarketing, Bochum, London, with the title “What the machine-builders want to change in the automation technology 2010”. This survey was carried out in January/February and covered scarcely 250 representative machine-builders.

Quest TechnoMarketing is specialised in market surveys regarding the automation technology for more than 20 years and is the publisher of the Quest Trend Magazine.

About the Quest Trend Magazine:

The print edition of the Quest Trend Magazine is published since 2001 and is dispatched to 3,200 personally addressed decision-makers in the automation technology in the machinery industry of Germany, Austria and Switzerland and in the automotive and F&B industries. It has at least 10,000 readers according to the reader questioning and enjoys a high degree of attention due to its focus on trends in the automation technology from users’ point of view.

The Quest Trend Magazine is published by Quest TechnoMarketing.

About Quest TechnoMarketing:

Quest TechnoMarketing, founded 1989, is specialised in market surveys for the automation technology. Location is Bochum and as Quest TechnoMarketing Ltd. London. At Bochum a team of 6 specialists are employed.

The market studies of Quest TechnoMarketing cover very detailed the demand trends in control technology, drive technology, field buses, Ethernet and sensor technology in the machinery industry and in the automotive and F&B industries.

These demand trends are based on interviews with the decision-makers. The trends are professionally, representatively and manufacturer-independently recorded.

The customers of Quest TechnoMarketing are the manufacturers of automation technology. The majority of the well-known manufacturers belong to them. The customers use the market studies for their product development and market processing.

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Quest Trend Magazine
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