Market Introduction
The usage of condition monitoring solutions enables manufacturers and maintenance staff to easily identify the problem in a machine and act according to the intensity of the issue. This reduces the time associated with the identification of the issue manually, also the downtime cost, thereby resulting in optimized productivity. The industrial sector across the country is heavily emphasizing on condition monitoring and diagnostics within respective manufacturing facilities to determine critical parameters such as vibration, noise, and temperature. Continuous monitoring of machines using advanced technologies facilitates the manufacturers to increase their productivity and gain profit. The growing demand for condition monitoring solutions across industries is throttling the growth of machine condition monitoring market.
The key stakeholders in the machine condition monitoring market are manufacturers, software providers, system integrators, and end users. The market players offer various types of machine condition monitoring hardware to their customers and are highly focused on expanding their customer base by providing innovative machine condition monitoring solutions. The key players in the machine condition monitoring market are SKF Rockwell Automation, Machine Condition Monitoring (PTY) LTD, Schaeffler AG, and General Electric, among others. The software providers offer seamless, user-friendly, and robust software for parameter calculation, order tracking analysis, data integration, and diagnostic reporting. The software providers offer a suite of programs or functions into one software for analysis of monitored or diagnosed parameters. The end-users of the machine condition monitoring market procure various monitoring techniques with an objective to analyze and optimize the machinery’s health. Some of the end users of machine condition monitoring include aerospace & defense, power generation sector, automotive industry, oil & gas industry, and manufacturing sector, among others.
Market Overview and Dynamics
The South Africa machine condition monitoring market was valued at US$ 26.51 million in 2021 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 3.3% during the forecast period of 2021 to 2028 to reach US$ 33.25 million by 2028.
The automated solutions such as condition monitoring facilitate the end users with the ability to detect any faults in a machine during its operation or in an idle mode. The modern-day machinery operates with the help of numerous smaller components, which sometimes cause excessive vibrations, noise, thermal issues, and corrosion, which can lead to system failure in case the faults remain undetected for a longer period. The condition monitoring solutions identify the faults at an early stage, which facilitates the maintenance staff to prioritize the repair and overhauling task. This ultimately reduces downtime costs and improves productivity. Therefore, the increasing demand for automated solutions in manufacturing facilities is projected to increase the machine condition monitoring market.
The machine condition monitoring systems have a comparatively longer lifespan with proper maintenance. The longer lifespan reflects stagnation in the procurement of the same without the incorporation of new machinery. This restricts the procurement of machine condition monitoring systems. Thus, a longer lifespan is expected to saturate the procurement rate, which is expected to hamper the growth of the machine condition monitoring market.
Key Market Segments
Based on monitoring technique, in 2021, the vibration monitoring segment held the largest share of the South Africa machine condition monitoring market. Vibration monitoring is usually the key element of most condition-based maintenance programs. Vibration monitoring cannot deliver all the information required for an effective condition-based maintenance program. On the other hand, thermography helps in identifying and analyzing thermal anomalies for the determination of machine condition monitoring. These thermal anomalies are generally due to inadequate lubrication, worn components, misalignment, or mechanical loading anomalies. Infrared thermography is an optimum technology to examine thermal anomalies on machines as it provides comprehensive thermal images of a machine or its component with no physical attachments, involves minor set up, and delivers the results in a short time
In terms of offering, the hardware segment contributed a substantial share in 2021. The hardware manufacturers strive hard to innovate and develop robust sensors and other systems that facilitate the end users to analyze the health of machinery remotely. The different types of hardware offered by the manufacturers include vibration sensors, proximity probes, tachometer, infrared sensors, spectrometer, ultrasound detectors, corrosion probe, and others. On the other hand, the software providers offer robust software that helps the end users with an analysis of the faulty components, which then facilitates the end users to prioritize the maintenance of the components.
Based on end users, in 2021, the oil & gas segment held the largest share of the South Africa machine condition monitoring market. The demand for machine condition monitoring solutions is escalating among several industries as these solutions enable the manufacturers and maintenance staff to analyze the functionality of machines regularly. The condition monitoring solutions also helps industries to reduce downtime cost associated with failure of machines and the risk related to the loss of productivity. The industries using rotating machines use condition monitoring solutions, which facilitate them with improved safety of the machines and increased productivity.
Major Sources and Companies Listed
A few of the major primary and secondary sources referred to while preparing this report on the South Africa machine condition monitoring market are company websites, annual reports, financial reports, national government documents, and statistical database. Major companies listed in the machine condition monitoring market report are Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG; General Electric; MARTEC; Machine Condition Monitoring (Pty) Ltd; Rockwell Automation, Inc.; SKF; Quill; ALS Limited; and National Instruments Corporation.
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