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The World Market for Flowmeters, 2nd Edition - Published in April 2008

The World Market for Flowmeters, 1st Edition

Getting a Look from 20,000 Feet

Flow Research has completed a study of the entire worldwide flowmeter market. This is the second edition of a study that was first published in 2003. This new study id even more comprehensive than the first one, and covers all twelve types of flowmeters. The study is called The World Market for Flowmeters, 2nd Edition.

This study includes the following types of flowmeters:

New-Technology Flowmeters

Traditional Technology Flowmeters

It is very difficult to find reliable data on the entire flowmeter market without studying each individual technology first and then combining the data together.  This is very much like seeing a landscape from 20,000 feet.  You can see the outlines of buildings and roads, but very little detail.  This may be sufficient knowledge for some purposes, but not for in-depth understanding.

What we have done in this project done is more like the following.  We looked at the terrain from 20,000 feet and decided we needed a lot more detail.  The twelve flow technologies can be compared to twelve different towns that are linked together with highways.  So we landed the plane, and did a detailed study of the twelve towns individually.  We wrote up this information in a report on each town.  We then got back in the plane with the reports in hand, and took another look at the twelve towns.

From 20,000 feet, we can now see the broad outline of each of the twelve towns below.  But because we have studied each town (flow technology) individually, we also have in-depth knowledge of each town.  We can also see the connecting roads between all the towns.  These roads were not readily visible from the ground.  Taking a second look from 20,000 feet gives us the entire picture, all at one time.

The twelve flow technologies do not exist in isolation.  Anytime a customer selects one type of flowmeter, he fails to select one of the other nine types.  Not every technology can be growing at a ten percent rate.  By studying every technology, it is possible to identify compare the market penetration of the different technologies, and to understand which technologies are growing and which are being replaced.

The method we have used also avoids another problem.  It takes so long to do individual studies of all the flow technologies that, by the time the project is done, the initial data is out of date.  We will avoid this problem by updating the data on all the flow technologies at the same time.

One of the most interesting developments in the flowmeter market today is the battle between the newer flow technologies and the traditional flowmeters.  New-technology flowmeters include Coriolis, magnetic, ultrasonic, vortex, and thermal flowmeters.  The traditional flow technologies include differential pressure (DP), turbine, positive displacement, open channel, variable area, and target flowmeters.  While there is a general trend towards the new-technology meters and away from the traditional meters, the rate of change varies greatly by industry and application.  Emerging technologies are also changing the flowmeter landscape.

When users select flowmeters today, they are faced with a variety of choices.  Not only are many technologies available, but so are many suppliers for each technology.  When ordering replacement meters, users often replace like with like.  This is one reason that DP flowmeters still have the largest installed base of any type of flowmeter.  In other cases, users need to select meters for new plants, or for new applications within existing plants.  Users also sometimes replace one type of flowmeter with another type.  In these cases, users need to select between new-technology and traditional technology flowmeters.

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