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American "CONTROL" magazine will publish the last year's top 50 list of automation companies in the world every year, so that readers have a general impression of the world's leading automation companies, which is helpful for readers to purchase foreign automation products and learn foreign advanced technology. Here is an updated list of the World's Top 50 Automation Companies for 2022, a look at the automation industry in 2022, the technical definition and ranking of automation companies, and what to read from the World's Top 50 Automation companies for 2022.

On October 16, 2023, the list of the world's top 50 automation companies for 2022 was published in the magazine "CONTROL" (see Table 1). This also explains why in 2024, it can only introduce the list of the world's top 50 automation companies in 2022.

Table 1 List of the world's Top 50 automation Companies in 2022





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Technical definition of automation company

In determining the rankings shown in Table 1, a prerequisite is to define what an "automation company" is, since many large companies are now cross-industry groups, and only the sales of those companies that are automated should be included in the statistics.

Take Honeywell as an example, the revenue in 2022 is 35.4 billion US dollars, but because its business involves aviation products and services, buildings, industrial control technology, automotive products, turbochargers and special materials and other technologies, when Honeywell is included in the list, only its industrial control technology is listed, and its sales in Table 1 are only 3.748 billion US dollars. That's roughly one-tenth of Honeywell's total revenue of $35.4 billion.

As far as "automation" is concerned, different people may give different definitions.

The technical definition of an automation company given by CONTROL magazine in the United States is to provide the following equipment:

· Process automation systems and related hardware, software and services;

PLC and related hardware, software, services, I/O and bundled HMI;