Market shares of Ethernet and fieldbuses in 2018

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The conclusion of the latest HMS study: Industrial Ethernet networks have been growing faster than traditional fieldbuses for several years and have now overtaken the latter. With a growth rate of 22%, Industrial Ethernet now has a global market share of 52%, compared to 46% in the previous year. EtherNet/IP has become the most widespread network with a 15% market share, followed by Profinet, Ethercat, Modbus-TCP and Ethernet Powerlink. HMS currently puts the share of fieldbuses at 42% (previous year 48%). Wireless technologies have a market share of 6%.