Re: Why is the Automation market declining?
Sep 18, 2000 2:56 pm, by Davis Gentry
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>Michael Griffin wrote: > I would define a gain as being due to a *new > technology* if the improvement would have been impossible without > hardware or software which has recently become available. I would disagree to some extent with this definition - rather than the term "impossible" I would substitute the term "economically unfeasible". It is possible that you could have solved the problem you listed at the time using existing technology, but could you have done it for a price tag that made it worth it? One of the most important changes in technology is the current ability to manufacture systems or components for small fractions of what a comparable unit would have cost 15 years ago. This all means that you can put sensors or processors in places you would never have considered doing so in the past. This seems to me to be an important technological advance. Davis Gentry Applications Engineer Delta Tau Data Systems
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