Advantech sees the future of embedded systems in the Cloud, and more especially in the "Internet of Things." Here's a press release about an important acquisition they've made that gives them a large capability for portable devices.

Advantech Announces Acquisition of DLoG GmbH

For years, COTS (commercially available, off the shelf) has been driving the architectures of automation systems and controller design. Here's the latest example of the power of COTS.

From Advantech's press release:

Advantech Launches a x86-based DIN-Rail PC

Former editor in chief of Control, and now our VP of content, Keith Larson is in Suzhou, China, this week, attending industrial automation and embedded systems supplier Advantech's World Partner Conference. He's been Twittering (see @keithlarson) from the event. He has also sent the following report from one of opening speeches.

(I'm not going to try to figure out when this happened in real time--yesterday or tomorrow. The International Date Line hurts my head.) <!--break-->

Today I got a press release from Advantech--- not the industrial automation group, but the other part of the company. In this case, it was about an MCA- Mobile Clinical Assistant.

This is a tablet PC, fanless, based on Intel's Atom processor...but, well, let's allow Ellis Luk's press release to speak for itself:

From the press release I just received from Chuck Harrell:

From Chuck Harrell:

Advantech’s eManufacturing Laboratory Provides On-Hands Advantage to University Students
 
(Cincinnati, Ohio – 02/13/2008) – In October 2004, Professor Jay Lee joined the University of Cincinnati (UC) as the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Advanced Manufacturing. But, he didn’t come alone – he brought several of his closest friends, namely, the NSF Industry/University Cooperation Research Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS).
 
“The cen...

Remember the old commercial? "Gee, no, GTE?" If you're younger than I am, you probably don't but that's what popped into my head when I got this press release from Meg Chen at Advantech.

Gee... no, GIE.

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We loaded up the buses and left early for our day at the factory. Advantech's Kunshan location is a terrific example of a high customization short run manufacturing facility with all the modern features. We came in to a cheering section (literally) of Advantech employees who sorted us by language and took us to a briefing room where we got excellent explanations of what we were seeing from Advantech employees-- and it was clear that many of the younger staffers who were reporting were doing thei...

Advantech held their first ever global press conference yesterday at their World Partner Conference. Dora Chang, Advantech's CFO, Jeff Chen, CTO, and Ming-chin Wu, President of Advantech IAG, and KC Liu, Advantech's CEO attended and presented and answered questions.

Dora Chang presented a financial overview of an excellently funded company with a half-billion dollars in revenue, with 3000 employees and no debt. 21% year over year growth was shown, with 21% of revenues coming from Industrial Aut...