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| The total automation market volume in 2004 amounted to 203 Billion Euro. The European market share was 25% with regard to application, whereas it was 32% with regard to production of automation equipment. This shows an exported surplus of European automation products of 7%. This clearly marks Europe's leadership in the global automation market, which has to be conserved and extended. These facts are depicted in the two following diagrams. | ||
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The Virtual Automation Networks (VAN) project will provide innovative solutions, extensions and standards dedicated to industrial environments, to fill the existing gap between office technologies and industrial automation technology, focused on a new dimension of uniform networking of production and manufacturing processes. This will be achieved by a merging of existing and emerging IST and automation standards covering:
 VAN aims at a real breakthrough with its approach to integrate heterogeneous (multi-stakeholder) network concepts to an applicable Virtual Automation Network that could be widely used throughout the industry, with particular consideration to networked embedded systems. The Virtual Automation Networks (VAN) project aims to utilise the latest advances in wireless communications for the purposes of industrial automation with the side effect of lower development costs as proprietary solutions would cause. VAN will perform an independent analysis and survey of the current needs; implementation challenges and possibilities of utilisation of present state-of-the-art wireless communication technologies in the field of embedded automation and data acquisition systems used for. |
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