Show MARKET l GROWTH TO ACCELERATE EHA TE 5 t US VS shipments of all types of process control equipment are are expected to exceed 2 billion by 1980 This increase from the 14 billion scored in 1976 and the estimated 16 billion for 1077 1977 represents a sizable gain The foreign market is growing even more rapidly because of the lower rate of productivity of the overseas companies Industry try experts are forecasting ling a worldwide market amounting to some 4 01 billion by the end of the present decade Process control computer systems are arc expected to speed speedup up their representation in the total market The minicomputers minicomputers and microcomputers will certainly enjoy an even more pronounced growth patt pattern as process control producers rush to design their overall systems to interface with these specific task computers The outturn of such computer systems should advance from a little more than million to approximately million by 1980 |