The Smart Factory: A Semiconductor-Driven Initiative

FTTx has grown from its initial FTTN (fiber to the node) to FTTB (fiber to the building) to FTTC (fiber to the curb) and now to FTTH (fiber to the home). Fiber optic communication is becoming the future. The all-optic network is going to be the framework of any industry. In such a scenario, fiber optic testing is critical, and FOTE plays a major role in handling of the networks. The briefing will provide clients with an opportunity to venture into the global FOTE market space.

Why You Should Attend:
·Learn about Wi-Fi technology and cellular offload
·What drives and what challenges the demand for Wi-Fi testing?
·What is the size of the test equipment market for Wi-Fi?
·Wi-Fi performance test for smartphones

This briefing will investigate the present scenario of the network and application security testing market and will focus on the emerging trends, including geographic and technology trends.

Why you should attend:
·Get a quick overview of the security testing market
·Learn drivers and restraints for the network and application security testing market
·Receive information regarding market growth, key players and emerging trends

Why You Should Attend:

· Learn about the latest key technological trends present in the global NPM and APM market
· Identify which vertical end-user industries represent most of the growth opportunities
· Learn about growing demand opportunities from a geographic perspective
· Hear about perspectives and key strategies adopted by leading companies

Why You Should Attend:
·Learn about the growth of the Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market
·Identify the drivers and restraints
·Learn more about the revenues corresponding to 1,10,40/100 Gigabit Ethernet market
·Identify the key market participants

Why you should attend:
· Understand the future of manufacturing and related services.
· Learn the various Mega Trends that will shape the factories of the future.
· Understand how standardization and increased adaptability/re-configurability will drive future global interoperable factories.

This analyst briefing will provide a concise analysis of OLEDs, along with identifying key market trends that are expected to have a significant impact on its growth rates.

Highlights of this briefing include:

- Insight into the market trends
- Demand analysis
- Revenue forecasts trends
- Growth opportunities
- Competitive analysis

This briefing will investigate the demands of a typical Gen Y person and the technology landscape that will support these demands.

Why You Should Attend:
·Understand the demands on communication technology.
·Identify the best technology to answer these demands.
·Identify opportunities for growth in the communication technology market.

Why You Should Attend:

· Learn about the growth of mobile broadband and deployment of LTE and its impact on the GP test equipment market
· Identify which end-user industries represent most of the growth opportunities in BRIC and other emerging countries
· Learn about growing electronics manufacturing and outsourcing activities in BRIC countries
· Hear about perspectives and key strategies adopted by leading companies to meet the needs created by favorable economics and demographics

This briefing will investigate the changing RTLS technology landscape across the world and will specifically focus on how RTLS is bringing value to vertical markets such as healthcare, manufacturing, aerospace, defense, logistics and supply chain, etc. It also throws light on the changing attitude of customers toward the technology.

Why You Should Attend:
· Learn about the growth of RTLS
· Identify the drivers and restraints of RTLS

Despite the general purpose test equipment market being in a mature stage, there are growth opportunities specifically for test vendors dealing with modular instrumentation. This briefing highlights the various factors bolstering market growth.

Benefits of this On Demand:
·Understand the dynamics behind modular instrumentation
·Look at end user growth opportunity

Why You Should Attend:
· Learn about the growth of the Gigabit Ethernet Test Equipment Market
· Identify the drivers and restraints
· Learn more about the revenues corresponding to 1,10,40/100 Gigabit Ethernet market.
· Identify the key market participants

This Analyst Briefing will discuss the growth in applications of temperature sensors and why infrared temperature sensors are the bigger beneficiaries of this increase.

Highlights of the briefing include:

- Non-contact temperature sensors make inroads into contact temperature domain
- Key market participants challenge traditional temperature technologies by developing fixed infrared temperature versions
- Level of intelligence in temperature sensors stimulated high measurement accuracy
- Process applications dominate temperature applications

With technological advancements in wireless communications and green engineering, new application markets are emerging. This will change the customer base for general purpose test equipment vendors in China over the next three to five years. This briefing will discuss the evolution of the key end-user segments in the Chinese general purpose test equipment market.

After the 2008 economic recession, growing demand from the energy sector and other growth drivers, such as reinvestment in plant renovation, modernization, and technology and product developments, are providing robust opportunities for flow sensors and transmitters. An increasing number of projects and establishment of new process plants have led to the resurgence of the flow sensors and transmitters market globally.

Technological advancements in industries such as automotive, wireless communications and aerospace & defense have revolutionized the electronic test equipment market. Increasing requirements for wireless connectivity, massive data bandwidth, better processing capabilities, integration, and software content, have boosted the demand for more complex yet easy-to-use electronic test equipment.

This briefing will provide an overview of the electronic test equipment market in Europe and then focus on a critical challenge that is perhaps the most important one being faced by test engineers today: the increasing complexity of DUTs.

Frost & Sullivan has invited National Instruments to join us in this briefing and highlights solutions available to test engineers to overcome these challenges.

This briefing will review the key technologies and test methodology required to evolve to all-IP/Ethernet mobile backhaul capable of accommodating the explosive growth of wireless data, while keeping network costs – and quality–in check.

The increasing realization of the importance of torque has led to sensor applications in diverse markets, including industrial, aerospace, automotive, and prosthetics in medical.

Highlights of the briefing include:
- Key challenges faced by torque sensors in increasing market presence
- Market dynamics that drive growth of this market
- Market size and revenue growth of various end-user markets

This briefing will present key findings from research recently performed on the general purpose test & measurement equipment market and highlight the challenges faced by end-users of general purpose test equipment, including lowering cost of test. Frost & Sullivan has invited Bill Lycette, author of several white papers on the subject, to comment on models to best calculate cost of ownership. With his colleague Duane Lowenstein, Lycette received the David M. Goodman Best Paper Award for Management Topics at Autotestcon 2010 for their insightful examination of total cost of ownership for test equipment.