Rugged Tablet Industry 2018 Market Research Report

Global Rugged Tablet Market is anticipated to witness an exponential growth in the forecast period. A rugged tablet is a handheld device, particularly designed to function in harsh conditions and environments comprising extreme temperatures, strong vibrations, and dusty or wet conditions. The factors that propel the growth of the market include increasing demand from the defense sector, rising preference for feature-rich devices, and increasing demand for this tablet from numerous end-use segments. On the other hand, there are factors that may hamper the growth of the market including high initial procurement price of rugged tablets. Globally, market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 6.85% in the upcoming period as the scope, product types, and its applications are increasing across the globe.

The technical combination in the manufacturing, commercial, and logistics segments has increased the demand for rugged tablets. Most of the rugged tablets run on Windows Mobile OS or Windows CE. In the recent years, there have been increased attempts at providing android-based industrial handheld devices. However, the market for Android-powered rugged tablets has not developed as much as the market for Windows-based tablets.

The market may be explored by type, operating system, application, and geography. The market may be explored by type as ultra-rugged, semi-rugged, and fully rugged. The “Fully Rugged Tablet” segment led the market in 2017 and will continue to lead in the forecast period. The key factors that could be attributed to the growth of market include presence of large organizations and increasing demand from SMEs.

Based on operating system, the market could span android, windows, and others. The “Windows operating system” segment led the market in 2017 and will continue to lead in the forecast period. The key applications that could be explored in the rugged tablet market include defense, industrial and government.

North America accounted for the major share of the rugged tablet market in 2017 and will continue to lead in the forecast period. The key factor that could be attributed to the growth includes increasing demand for data computing, recording, and analytics. Additionally, growing global demand will subsequently propel the growth of the market in the North American region. Also, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are anticipated to grow in the forecast period.

Some of the key players that fuel the growth of the rugged tablet market comprise DT Research, Getac, Panasonic, DRS Technology, Xplore, AAEON, Mobile Demand, HP, NEXCOM, MilDef, Dell, Kontron, Trimble. The leading companies are taking up partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures in order to boost the inorganic growth of the industry.

Market Segment:

The major manufacturers covered in this report
• Panosonic
• Xplore
• DRS Technologies
• Getac
• DT Research
• Dell
• MobileDemand
• AAEON
• NEXCOM
• HP
• MilDef
• Trimble
• Kontron

Geographically, this report studies the top producers and consumers, focuses on product capacity, production, value, market share and growth opportunity in these key regions, covering
• United States
• Europe
• China
• Japan
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Other Regions

The regional scope of the study is as follows:
• North America
• United States
• Canada
• Mexico
• Asia-Pacific
• China
• India
• Japan
• South Korea
• Australia
• Indonesia
• Singapore
• Rest of Asia-Pacific
• Europe
• Germany
• France
• UK
• Italy
• Spain
• Russia
• Rest of Europe
• Central & South America
• Brazil
• Argentina
• Rest of South America
• Middle East & Africa
• Saudi Arabia
• Turkey
• Rest of Middle East & Africa

On the basis of product, this report displays the production, revenue, price, market share and growth rate of each type, primarily split into
• Fully Rugged Tablets
• Semi Rugged Tablets
• Ultra-Rugged Tablets

On the basis of the end users/applications, this report focuses on the status and outlook for major applications/end users, (sales), market share and growth rate for each application, including
• Energy
• Manufacturing
• Construction
• Transportation & Distribution
• Public Safety
• Retail
• Medical
• Government
• Military

The key points of this report are:
• To analyze and study the global Rugged Tablet capacity, production, value, status (2013-2017) and forecast (2018-2025);
• Focuses on the key Rugged Tablet manufacturers, to study the capacity, production, value, market share and development plans in future.
• Focuses on the global key manufacturers, to define, describe and analyze the market competition landscape, SWOT analysis.
• To define, describe and forecast the market by type, application and region.
• To analyze the global and key regions market potential and advantage, opportunity and challenge, restraints and risks.
• To identify significant trends and factors driving or inhibiting the market growth.
• To analyze the opportunities in the market for stakeholders by identifying the high growth segments.
• To strategically analyze each submarket with respect to individual growth trend and their contribution to the market
• To analyze competitive developments such as expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market
• To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyze their growth strategies.