Europe ICS Market Size (2024 - 2029)

Europe Industrial Control Systems Market Analysis

The Europe ICS Market is expected to register a CAGR of 12.30% during the forecast period.

• There is a rise in the need to decrease manufacturing costs and applications of the Internet of Things and machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies. According to a government-commissioned review, the manufacturing sector in the country can unlock GBP 455 million (USD 550 million) over the next decade and create thousands of jobs if it cracks the fourth industrial revolution.
• The bulk adoption of automation tools is witnessed in the region’s automotive and manufacturing sectors. IoT allows automated driving assistance, vehicle maintenance, passenger infotainment, & vehicle-to-vehicle communications in the automotive industry.
• The government’s efforts to control and maintain the cybersecurity industry has suffered opposition from business associations. The resistance to building a certification regime to rank firms based on their performance against cybersecurity metrics is hampering innovations to upgrade security. However, the country’s industrial policy aims to encourage private investment and human capital development in line with addressing the cybersecurity challenge.​
• The ANSSI (National Agency for Information Systems Security) suggested a similar class-based approach to dealing with cyber security issues within France. The country’s Industrial Cyber Plan strives for a voluntary information-sharing system (CERT-FR) to help a reporting mechanism, sharing best practices among companies, sponsorship of crisis management exercises involving the private sector (Piranet), and certification schemes for cybersecurity firms.
• Aging hardware or software for ICS in numerous organizations is also a factor for increasing complexity, as many organizations even use inheritance ICS due to their importance in the functioning of the plant. The advanced age of ICS creates excellent opportunities for cyberattacks and increases complexities.
• The COVID-19 pandemic has forced manufacturing industries to re-evaluate their traditional production processes, mainly driving digital transformation and smart manufacturing practices across production lines. The manufacturers are also forced to develop and execute multiple new and agile techniques to monitor product and quality control.

Europe Industrial Control Systems Industry Segmentation

Industrial control systems comprise a network of interconnected equipment that supervises and controls physical equipment in many industrial environments. These systems have a combination of control systems like supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLC), and related security systems, which are used primarily for remote supervision, process automation, and critical infrastructure automation.

The Europe ICS market is segmented by operational technology (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Distributed Control System (DCS), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED), Human Machine Interface (HMI), and other systems), by software (Asset Performance Management (APM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)), by end-user industry (oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical, power and utilities, food and beverages, automotive and transportation, life sciences, water and wastewater, metal and mining, pulp and paper, electronics/semiconductor, other end-user industries), and by country (United Kingdom, Germany, France, and the rest of Europe). The market sizes and forecasts are provided in terms of value (USD) for all the above segments.