MCAA Members Show Five-year Gains

Sales gains in 2007 topped off five years of prosperity for North American automation products suppliers. That’s one conclusion to be drawn from the results of a recent survey of member companies by the Measurement, Control & Automation Association (MCAA).

The MCAA 2008 Operating Benchmarks Report shows that 2007 revenues were up by anywhere from 4.2 percent to 16.3 percent over 2006 for the 48 MCAA member companies that provided data for the report. An additional section based on available data from 15 public companies—not all of which are MCAA members—showed 2007 revenue gains of more than 20 percent.

麦卡基于VA的威廉斯堡，是北美制造商和工业过程控制和工厂自动化中使用的仪器制造商和经销商的交易协会。每年，该协会在机密基础上收集有关其成员公司的经营业绩的信息，并将数据汇总为报告。数据通过销售量大小排列在组中，以使比较分析更加集中。

Over the five year period covered by the 2008 report—from 2003 through 2007—“revenue growth was substantial, as was the resulting income from operations,” according to a recent MCAA press release. A significant factor in the improvement in operating income is an across-the-board management of selling, and general and administrative expenses, the MCAA said. The larger companies have the most leverage to accomplish this, but even the smaller companies appear to have found means to contain these costs and thus improve their margins.

More, yet less.

在过去几年中指出，研究和开发投资（研发），特别是由报告中的较大公司的投资下降，MCCA今年指出，最大的公司在绝对美元的绝对美元中提高了30％的R＆D，同时仍然显示下降作为销售额的百分比。MCAA表示，这可能归因于通过这些较大的公司获取研发计划。其他类别的公司（较小的公司）持续投资 - 通常约占销售额的5％。

The annual Operating Benchmarks Report survey is fielded in January and the final report published in early May. The full report is only available to participating MCAA member companies.

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