Virtual PLC and Soft PLC Market 2024–2030
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About the report
The Virtual PLC and Soft PLC Market Report 2024–2030 is part of IoT Analytics’ ongoing coverage of Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. The information presented in this report is based on the results of secondary research as well as qualitative research, i.e., interviews with experts who work at relevant vendors, integrators and end users. The document includes definitions for soft PLC and virtual PLCs, market projections, adoption drivers, the competitive landscape, key trends and developments, and relevant case studies.
The main purpose of this document is to help our readers understand the current virtual PLC and soft PLC landscape by defining, sizing, and analyzing the market.
Soft PLC and virtual PLC market
The market for soft and virtual PLC runtime is expected to grow at 18% CAGR, while the Virtual PLC market is expected to grow at a much faster pace. For the competitive landscape. Beckhoff, Codesys, Phoenix Contact, Schneider Electric, and Siemens are amongst the leaders in this space.
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Virtual PLC and Soft PLC Market 2024–2030 (PDF)
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Introduction: Chapter overview and key takeaways
- List of scope or coverage changes compared to the 2020 virtual PLC and soft PLC report
- Starting point: There are 5 typical workloads in an industrial setting
- In the ISA 95 model, control logic is tightly coupled to controller hardware
- Technology now allows workloads to be decoupled from hardware
- The extent of the hardware-software decoupling defines the PLC type
- The shift to soft & virtual PLCs could present a classical innovators dilemma
- Why it matters? PLC vendors may lose profitable business
- Case in point: Virtualization of Audi’s production system
- Technology overview
- Technology overview: Chapter overview and key takeaways
- Evolution of industrial controllers
- Technological advancements
- Deep dive: Containerization – Technology overview
- Deep dive: Hypervisors – Technology overview
- Deep dive: Hypervisors – Key examples of embedded hypervisors
- Technical requirements for soft and virtual PLCs: Overview
- Technical requirements for soft and virtual PLCs: Latency
- Technical requirements for soft and virtual PLCs: Motion control
- Technical requirements for soft and virtual PLCs : Safety & redundancy
- Technical requirements for soft and virtual PLCs: Network design
- Programming standard comparison
- Market size & outlook
- Market size and outlook: Chapter overview and key takeaways
- Global soft and virtual PLC automation market: Overview
- Global soft and virtual PLC runtime market: Overview
- Global soft and virtual PLC runtime market: By product type
- Hardware-specific soft PLC runtime market: Overview
- Hardware-specific soft PLC runtime market: By type
- Hardware-specific soft PLC runtime market: By region
- Hardware-specific soft PLC runtime market: By industry
- Hardware-specific soft PLC runtime market: By detailed industry
- Hardware-agnostic soft PLC runtime market: Overview
- Hardware-agnostic soft PLC runtime market: By type
- Hardware-agnostic soft PLC runtime market: By region
- Hardware-agnostic soft PLC runtime market: By industry
- Hardware-agnostic soft PLC runtime market: By detailed industry
- Virtual PLC runtime market: Overview
- Virtual PLC runtime market: By type
- Virtual PLC runtime market: By region
- Virtual PLC runtime market: By industry
- Virtual PLC runtime market: By detailed industry
- Competitive landscape
- Competitive landscape: Chapter overview and key takeaways
- Company landscape: Overview
- List of main soft and virtual PLC runtime vendors
- Global hardware-specific soft PLC runtime market share
- Global hardware-agnostic soft PLC runtime market share
- Global virtual PLC runtime market share
- Vendor deep dive: Beckhoff
- Vendor deep dive: Phoenix Contact
- Vendor deep dive: CODESYS
- Vendor deep dive: Schneider Electric
- Vendor deep dive: Siemens
- Role of key consortiums
- Customer adoption
- Customer adoption: Chapter overview and key takeaways
- How manufacturers envision the factory of the future – Key paradigms
- Perceived benefits of virtualized controllers
- Soft and virtual PLC adoption drivers
- Soft and virtual PLC adoption likelihood across industries
- Containerization of manufacturing software: Adoption approach
- Containerization of manufacturing software: Tools used
- Containerization of manufacturing software: Key challenges
- Other customer considerations: Key decision-making criteria
- Other customer considerations: Adoption concerns
- Other customer considerations: Willingness to pay
- Summary: Case studies
- Five key takeaways from the 4 case studies
- Case study: Kostad
- Case study: Cleaver-Brooks
- Case study: Gutshofbrauerei “Das Freie”
- Case study: Intidaya
- Trends & challenges
- Trends and challenges: Chapter overview
- General soft and virtual PLC market trends
- Operational and technical challenges
- Business and strategic challenges
- Methodology
- About IoT Analytics
Questions answered
- What is a soft PLC and what is a virtual PLC?
- Which technologies enable soft and virtual PLCs (e.g., virtualization technologies like containers and hypervisors)?
- What does the soft and virtual PLC market look like (i.e., market size by segments, regions, industries)?
- Who are the leading vendors in the soft and virtual PLC market, and what are their products?
- Which benefits are customers seeing from their soft PLCs and virtual PLC setups, and which industries are most likely to adopt them?
- What are key trends & challenges in soft and virtual PLC space?
Related reading
A research article based on insights from this report: Virtual PLCs: Can they become the industry norm by 2030?
Companies mentioned
A selection of companies mentioned in the report.
ABB
B&R
Beckhoff
CJB
Codesys
Copadata
Festo
Horner Automation Group
IBHsoftec
ifm electronic
Jumo
Keba
KLG Smartec
Kunbus
Logiccloud
Neuron Automation
OTee
Phoenix Contact
Rexroth
Rexygen
Rockwell Automation
Schneider Electirc
Siemens
SoftPLC
Turck
Wago
Weidmueller
Xentara
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