Frost & Sullivan's Technical Insights presents its latest research subscription--the Process Control Technology (PCT) alert service. This global subscription, which builds upon our expertise in Industrial Automation & Process Control technology and market research, has content focused on the North American, European, and Asia-Pacific regions. On a quarterly basis, the PCT alert reports and analyzes the latest advances across a range of process control areas and presents an opportunity to gain strategic insights into developments in this sector.

The mission here is to investigate emerging trends/technologies in areas such as distributed control systems, fieldbus, programmable logic controllers, advanced process control and simulation, and robotics, and their new applications; unearth exciting new products and service offerings; highlight trends in emerging trends in process control technologies and associated solutions. This alert further analyzes advances in this sector; provide updates on R&D initiatives/spending; university research; M&A; evaluate intellectual property; follow technology transfer and solution deployment/integration; track development of standards and software; and report on regulatory and policy issues; among other topics.

This subscription will identify key technology developers and will also periodically publish pertinent market and end-user intelligence. In their quest to provide you with the strategic intelligence you need, our experienced analysts thoroughly review a plethora of sources such as trade publications, journals, internal as well as proprietary databases, and interview key researchers, government officials and/or corporate managers, to gather information. They then analyze and benchmark their findings, and succinctly deliver to you the most critical intelligence. This subscription aids in gaining intelligence about the competitive scenario in this sector and helps major corporates in identifying and forming strategic alliances with research labs that have a promising innovation in this sector. In all, this subscription is a must read for anyone operating in or interested in this dynamic sector.