RPA Annual Report/ Review 2014

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... 2 RPA Annual Report 2014 Board & Staff of the RPA Please name the current Chairman, Deputy Chairman, Directors and Board Members and their company´s name. Furthermore we are interested in your staff, e.g. who is responsible for the marketing activities in your office. Please see the tables on the following slides as reference. Your last year´s data will be filled in in advance as available, please modify if needed!

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... 3 RPA Annual Report 2014 Chairman & Deputy Chairman PositionNameCompany Chairman Deputy Chairman

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... 4 RPA Annual Report 2014 Board PositionNameCompany Board

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... 5 RPA Annual Report 2014 Staff PositionNameCompany

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... 6 RPA Annual Report 2014 Postal and invoice address of the RPA Postal address: official postal address where the RPA office is registered (filled in in advance as available, please modify if needed) Invoice address: official invoice address and VAT- number of the RPA (filled in in advance as available, please modify if needed)

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... 7 RPA Annual Report 2014 Members 2014 Please put in the current member list of your RPA. If there is a current list available online, a link will be sufficient as well.

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... 8 RPA Annual Report 2014 Market Analysis: Technology Which PI technology is relevant in your local market? Please fill in the table by evaluating the importance from 1 (less important) to 10 (most important). Technology PROFIBUS PROFINET IO-Link PROFIsafe PROFIdrive PROFIenergy PROFIBUS PA Less important Most important

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... Please give us an overview on your main industries by using the following table (which technology in which industry) Technology by Industry (1) IndustryPROFIBUSPB PAPROFINETIO-Link Oil&Gas Food & Beverage Automotive Eletronics Water & Wastewater Chemicals Pulp & Paper Cement Metals & Mining Pharmaceuticals 9 RPA Annual Report 2014

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... Please give us an overview on your main industries by using the following table (which technology in which industry) Technology by Industry (2) IndustryPROFIBUSPB PAPROFINETIO-Link Glass & Solar Renewable Energy Machinebuilding Refinery Energy Other: Please specify … 10 RPA Annual Report 2014

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Market Analysis: Further Aspects Was there any significant/unexpected market development in 2014? Are you facing any problems?

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Market Analysis: Members Please cluster your members: how are they structured/ what is your main target group? (End users, device manufacturers, OEMs, etc.) Target GroupPercentage Device Manufacturers OEMs End Users University/ Institution Others (Please specify)

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Market Analysis: Members Do you try to reach other target groups? Are you facing any problems?

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Market Analysis: Competition Which are your main competitors? Please put them in the correct order. PositionCompetitor 1EtherNet/IP 2Modbus 3EtherCAT 4Powerlink 5Sercos 6CC-Link 7Interbus 8DeviceNet 9ControlNet 10Foundation Fieldbus 11HART 12CANopen 13Others

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Market Analysis: Competition (1) Which industries do your three main competitors serve? CompetitorNo. 1 Please fill in „Competitor“ e.g. Ethernet/IP No. 2 Please fill in „Competitor“ e.g. Modbus No. 3 Please fill in „Competitor“ e.g. Ethercat Industry Oil & Gas Food & Beverage Automotive Electronics Water & Wastewater Chemicals Pulp & Paper Cement Metals & Mining

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Market Analysis: Competition (2) Which industries do your three main competitors serve? CompetitorNo. 1 Please fill in „Competitor“ No. 2 Please fill in „Competitor“ No. 3 Please fill in „Competitor“ Industry Pharmaceuticals Glass & Solar Renewable Energy Machinebuilding Refinery Energy Other: Please specify…

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Market Analysis: Competition On which marketing activities does the competition focus? How do you handle the competitiors?

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Events 2014 Please name some highlights of your this year´s event schedule. Also pictures are very welcome! Show best practices (Roadshow, workshops, press tour, etc.): Describe the concept/idea behind your event How did you organize it? Participant´s popularity of your event? Any feedback of your participants?

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Outlook Events 2015 DateEvent NameTechnologiesTarget Group PlacePartici- pants dd.mm. yyyyname of seminar / exhibitionPROFNET, PROFIBUS,... users, vendors,... Anytown, CountryExpected number On this page, you can list all your events. (seminars, workshops, exhibitions, conferences, press conferences, members assembly, working group meetings,...) If there‘s not enough space, just enter additional lines or an additional page.

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Publications and Press 2014 Did you use any of our PI press releases? Did you publish any PI documents in local language? Please fill in the table below… Press ReleasesUsed:Used in local language: YesNoYesNo PI technologies for process automation Condition monitoring for PI technologies PROFINET developer community to meet at Plugfest in Düsseldorf PROFINET and PROFIsafe – the perfect match Interoperability thanks to continuous certification IO-Link on the path to success 100 th Meeting of the Advisory Board PROFINET IRT Plugfest a complete success …

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas... Which other activities did you do regarding publications and press? 21 RPA Annual Report 2014

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Other Marketing Activities 2014 Please name other marketing activities in 2014 like Online Marketing Social Media Marketing Mobile Marketing Member Marketing …

Board, Staff Administration Members Market Analysis Events Publications and Press Remarks, Ideas RPA Annual Report 2014 Remarks, Ideas, Plans,... Do you have any remarks or suggestions what you expect or wish from the PISC for the next year? Please let us know! And tell us about new projects you are planning for 2015.