SOURCE RESEARCH
Industrial Automation Hardware
Market Data | 4Q 2025 | MD-IAH-25
Get The ReportIndustrial Automation (IA) hardware markets are seeing consistent robust growth, with revenue Compound Annual Growth Rates (CAGRs) between 2025 and 2035 at 3.7%, 10.1%, and 5.2% for the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Industrial Personal Computer (IPC), and Human-Machine Interface (HMI) markets, respectively. While the IA hardware is a saturated market, especially among large-scale manufacturers, new growth is being driven by increased adoption among Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) manufacturers and an increased push for automated production processes in Western manufacturing nations, as growing skilled-labor shortages serve to hamper re-industrialization efforts.
The IPC market is seeing highly robust growth in both revenue (10.1%) and shipments (5.3%) due to increased adoption of Industry 4.0 technology across all vertical industries, following notable growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tools, which often require comprehensive data processes and analytics. Additionally, as the transition of the IA market over to Software-Defined Automation (SDA) accelerates, manufacturers will shift toward running soft/virtualized controllers in containerized instances on IPCs (particularly rack IPCs) and large PLC hardware to build more flexible and adaptable automation systems.
