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Of course,the performance of the PLC market depends largely on the underlying growth in the discrete and process-manufacturing sectors where PLCs are mainly applied.Machine tools,packaging machinery and automotive sectors were the three largest markets for PLCs.However,these markets,–especially the machine tool sector–are forecast to grow more slowly from 2015 to 2020 than the market average.The machine-tool sector suffered a big decline in 2015 in China and the United States,which are the leading national markets for machine tools.

当然，PLC市场的表现在很大程度上取决于主要应用PLC的离散和过程制造行业的潜在增长。机床、包装机械和汽车行业是PLC的三大市场。然而，这几个市场，特别是机床行业，预计从2015年到2020年增长速度要低于市场平均水平。2015年，机床行业在中国和美国市场大幅下滑，而这两个国家正是全球领先的机床市场。