September 10, 2005 -- exida.com, LLC (privately held) today announced the release of a new market study covering safety instrumented systems for the process and machine industries. Titled “Safety and Critical Control Systems in Process and Machine Automation – Growth market with new players, destined to attract further investment,” the document provides information on market segments, market attributes and market size.

“The SIS market is changing rapidly as a result of new manufacturers, new standards and changing alliances” says Jon Keswick, exida Partner and primary author of the report. “In addition the market is growing faster than the overall controls market. When these factors are combined with the trend toward integrated control – safety and integrated field instruments, a big shift in market share of major players is indicated.”

William Goble, Principal Partner of exida, said “The capabilities of the latest safety PLC offerings are impressive. The ability to integrate with field devices and the flexible fault tolerance impress me the most. These things are changing the market.”    

The report is 102 pages in length. It is available on the www.exida.com web-store or may be ordered by contacting the company.

exida is a certification and engineering consulting firm specializing in safety critical and high availability automation systems. Core competencies in design, analysis, implementation and analysis of critical automation systems have allowed exida to develop an extensive suite of software tools that assist in the implementation of the Safety Lifecycle. exida provides these tools as a service for a fee on a duration of use basis, making exida a pioneer in the Application Service Provider (ASP) for engineering applications market. Headquartered in Sellersville, PA, USA and Munich, Germany, exida has other worldwide operations in Australia, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the UK.

If additional information is desired on the exida market study or any of our other products or services, please view our website www.exida.com.