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As every year at the same time, the Simtec (professional trade union of electronic instrumentation) publishes the figures of the electronic instrumentation market in France. With 48 members and a turnover of around 311 million euros in sales in testing and measurement in 2011, this union has a good visibility in the market, even if some important players(Tektronix, Fluke, Teradyne, in particular) are not part of it.
Simtec members saw their business volume increase by 7.6% to 311.5 million euros in 2011, consolidating the 7.2% growth recorded in 2010. Of this figure, services (calibration, maintenance) account for about one-third (104.7 million euros).
The breakdown by market sectors is broadly stable compared to the previous year, with a dominance of the Defence/Aeronautics market (30%) and telecoms (22%), which are far ahead of other industries (13%), education (9%) and the automobile (8%).
While the overall market is growing, there are large disparities between instrument categories. Test equipment and modular instruments (map-based) experienced dramatic growth (36% and 29.2%, respectively). This is also the case with power instrumentation (up 28.9%) radiocom testers (up 20%). Other categories of instruments are declining, however, including RF signal generators (-4%), RF analyzers (-2%) wire bond testing equipment (-2%). The Simtec does not publish the figures of oscilloscopes (the basic instrument of electronic instrumentation) and general instrumentation (multimeters, in particular) because it lacks major players in this field and the participating players do not wish to give information to the competition (members give their figures but anonymously and confidentially).
Find out more: www.simtec.org/
