This in-depth market data research is split into two key modules: Market Growth Outlook and Competitive Analysis. Each of these modules is further configured into several sub-modules to meet the needs of executives as well as marketing, sales, and product development managers. All of these modules and sub-modules may be purchased as a bundle or separately. A brief description of these modules, sub-modules, and their use cases is included below.
The Soft Starters Market Research delivers current market analysis plus a five-year market and technology forecast. It is available in multiple editions, including worldwide, all regions, and most major countries.
New Generation of Smarter Products Accelerates Soft Starters Market
Soft starters are used in industrial applications to start/stop electric motors and protect expensive motorized machinery from initial inrush current surges. Leading suppliers are striving to differentiate their products through deep application knowledge and increased intelligence and connectivity. Soft starters help reduce energy consumption while protecting pumps, motors, machines, and other associated electrical equipment. This, in turn, reduces operating costs and extends the useful service lives of the equipment to improve return on assets. Soft starters have also shifted to digital technology that encompasses microprocessors for providing customers with numerous advanced functions and features.
Soft Starters Strategic Issues
In addition to providing a five-year market forecast, the Soft Starters Market Research Report provides detailed quantitative current market data and addresses key strategic issues as follows.
Digital Transformation
Enterprise automation today is not what it used to be several years ago. Today, it goes far beyond simple robots and virtual assistants that take over repetitive back-office tasks. Industries nowadays are witnessing the emergence of full-fledged enterprise automation platforms that help make informed decisions, optimize operations, and improve customer experience. Automation is at the center of digital transformation initiatives in most businesses. Just a few decades ago, automation was only associated with manufacturing. But now, there is almost no industry left untouched by automation. Soft starters have shifted to digital technology that encompasses microprocessors for providing numerous advanced functions and features to customers. Many soft starters now include network options so that they can be connected to plant control systems and can transmit system data to the central database over communication platforms. The integration of digital technology into soft starters is helping suppliers develop soft starters that are compact, modular in design, and designed for customer flexibility, i.e., these soft starters will have the ability to provide advanced monitoring and protection, superior communications capabilities, and also have an “energy saver” mode that will help increase efficiency and reduce downtime.
More Power from a Smaller Package
A product development trend has been to increase the rated power or current of soft starter components while maintaining the same package size. The biggest challenge here is to manage the higher heat dissipation caused by the increase in power.
Buy Tough, Not Cheap
Soft starters are commodities because they are substitutable, meaning that components can often be exchanged for a device from another manufacturer. This gives buyers a wide choice of suppliers without the need to commit to specifications of a single supplier. However, soft starters are subject to both mechanical and electrical stress. Low-cost devices are available, but buyers should consider environmental demands and not routinely choose the lowest bidder.
Extend Asset Life
Motors require a large amount of energy when they accelerate up to full speed. A soft starter is used to reduce the inrush currents and limit torque, useful to protect your equipment, extend the life of the motor, and reduce motor heating with frequent starts and stops. While industrial motors are relatively cheap, they use a lot of energy, and unexpected failures that shut down production lines can negatively affect operational costs. Better monitoring of electric motors means less unexpected down-time and longer asset life.
Market Data Research Available Datasets
Market Growth Outlook
ARC’s market growth outlook service delivers an in-depth market opportunity analysis including five-year market and technology forecasts and 3-year history trend lines where available. Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.
This service is designed to help accelerate your organization's ability to understand an up-to-date view of the market opportunity provided by your current product portfolio and analyze how your company’s market opportunity would change if you were to acquire or divest a particular product line. The service will also help you identify and capitalize on emerging markets, whether these markets are based on an emerging technology, region, vertical industry, or application. Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying the opportunities provided by emerging trends. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of market growth opportunity analyses for nearly four decades also provides greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market growth outlook services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.
In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet your specific needs. For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.
ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market opportunities designed to help executives quickly identify key trends and market opportunities around the world. In-depth market opportunity analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific market information to plan marketing and product development strategies. The following table shows more specific information included in each version.
| Market Growth Outlook Analysis | Use Cases | Target Role |
| Worldwide Market Growth Outlook by Industry & Region with 3-year history where available | In-depth technology-specific strategic growth planning across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries | Product & Marketing Managers |
| Worldwide Industry Growth Outlook by Region with 3-year history where available | Strategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industries | Industry Managers |
| Regional/Country Market Growth Outlook by Technology & Industry with 3-year history where available (includes country data) | Strategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple world regions | Regional & Country Sales Managers |
| Market Growth Outlook Executive View | Strategic Total Available Market (TAM) growth planning dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regions | Executives |
Market Competitive Analysis
ARC’s Competitive Analysis services deliver in depth competitive analyses across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries. Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.
This service is designed to help product and marketing managers identify their company’s market positioning across multiple views within their Serviceable Available Market (SAM). Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying how their company’s market position would change if the company were to acquire or divest a particular product line or technology. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of competitive market benchmarking for nearly four decades lends greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market competitive services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.
In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet the specific needs of our clients. For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.
ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market competitive analyses designed to help executives quickly assess their SAM by world region, technology, or vertical industry. In-depth competitive market analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific benchmarking information to plan marketing and product development strategies. The following table shows more specific information included in each version.
| Competitive Analysis | Use Cases | Target Role |
| Worldwide Competitive Analysis by Technology | In-depth competitive market analysis that quantifies how your company’s market position has changed over time across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries | Product & Marketing Managers |
| Worldwide Competitive Analysis by Industry | Strategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industries | Industry Managers |
| Regional/Country Competitive Analysis by Industry | Strategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple world regions | Regional Sales Managers |
| Competitive Analysis Executive View | Strategic Serviceable Available Market (SAM) analysis dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regions | Executives |
Worldwide Research Focus Areas
Worldwide Research Focus Areas
Strategic Analysis
- Executive Overview
- Major Trends
- Buyer Strategies
- Supplier Strategies
- Growth Contributors and Inhibitors
Competitive Analysis
- Market Shares of the Leading Suppliers
- Market Shares by Region
- North America
- Europe/Middle East/Africa
- Asia
- Latin America
- Market Shares by Revenue Category
- Hardware
- Software
- Services
- Market Shares by Power
- kW6: (> 900 kW)
- kW5: (601 to 900 kW)
- kW4: (201 to 600 kW)
- kW3: (41 to 200 kW)
- kW2: (6 to 40 kW)
- kW1: (1 to 5 kW)
- Market Shares by Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Automotive
- Building Automation
- Cement & Glass
- Chemical
- Electric Power Generation
- Electric Power T&D
- Electronics & Electrical
- Food & Beverage
- Machinery Manufacturing
- Metals
- Mining
- Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceutical & Biotech
- Pulp & Paper
- Semiconductors
- Water & Wastewater
- Market Shares by Machinery Segment
- Market Shares by Phase
- Market Shares by Packaging
- Market Shares by Sales Channel
- Market Shares by Customer Type
Market Forecasts and Histories
- Total Soft Starters Business
- Shipments by Region
- North America
- Europe/Middle East/Africa
- Asia
- Latin America
- Shipments by Revenue Category
- Hardware
- Software
- Services
- Shipments by Power
- kW6: (> 900 kW)
- kW5: (601 to 900 kW)
- kW4: (201 to 600 kW)
- kW3: (41 to 200 kW)
- kW2: (6 to 40 kW)
- kW1: (1 to 5 kW)
- Shipments by Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Automotive
- Building Automation
- Cement & Glass
- Chemical
- Electric Power Generation
- Electric Power T&D
- Electronics & Electrical
- Food & Beverage
- Machinery Manufacturing
- Metals
- Mining
- Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceutical & Biotech
- Pulp & Paper
- Semiconductors
- Water & Wastewater
- Shipments by Machinery Segment
- Shipments by Phase
- Shipments by Packaging
- Shipments by Sales Channel
- Shipments by Customer Type
Industry Participants
The research identifies all relevant suppliers serving this market.
Regional Research Focus Areas
Strategic Analysis
Competitive Analysis
- Leading Suppliers in Region
- Industry Shares in Region
- Country Shares in Region
- Leading Suppliers by Industry
Market History & Forecast Analysis
- Market History & Forecast by Country
- Market History & Forecast by Industry
Industry Participants
List of countries & currencies included in each region: MIRA-Country
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