Over the past couple of years, IT departments have been trending toward utilizing Industrial PCs instead of the traditional off-the-shelf “white boxes.” Since this trend has increased recently, we began to ask, “What’s causing this trend?”. In this blog, Part I, we will cover the first three reasons an Advantech Industrial PC can be the…
If you work around chemicals and gases, you know the importance of safety measures to reduce the risk of accidents and explosions. Those are just things that you don’t want to mess around with. It’s no coincidence that lately I have seen a growing need for Class 1, Division 2 Industrial Hardware in potentially hazardous…
As economies adjust to ever-rising demand for and costs of energy, an increasing range of enterprises are focusing on intelligent-building strategies. Globally, commercial buildings currently consume just fewer than 25 percent of all electricity production, making intelligent, automated management of those resources critical not only to enterprise efficiency, but also to global energy-allocation challenges. While…
Last week, I was thinking a lot about Advantech’s recently introduced iDoor Technology…so much, in fact, that it was on my mind as I went to the grocery store. While at the store, I went through the salad bar and it dawned on me. The concept of iDoor Technology is similar to that of a…
When I tuned in to Advantech’s April 18, 2014, webinar, Windows Embedded 8.1 Overview and Lock-Down Features, available here via YouTube, I got more than I bargained for. As Advantech Product Sales Manager Tze Chew introduced the event’s keynote speaker, Sylvain Ekel, Microsoft’s Senior Account Technology Strategy Manager, he paused to address – straight up…
Behind the scenes, L-Tron technology partners do much to support their industries, as well as the people and enterprises that rely upon them. Case in point: Advantech’s sponsorship of the Automation World: Factory & Machine Automation Playbook, 2014 Edition, a 167-page compilation of hands-on, practical advice designed to aid industrial automation end users in “selecting…
I recently introduced a series of posts inspired by a webinar I attended on April 2, 2014, entitled Enabling Smart Factories – The Transformation of Manufacturing Systems & Factory Facilities, hosted by Advantech and presented by Dr. Jay Lee. I introduced Dr. Lee and his Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems in my first post, and…
L-Tron technology partner Zebra Technologies announced its Rack & Container management system at the Automotive Manufacturing Solutions conference held in September 2013 in Detroit. The new manufacturing-execution system was specifically designed to assist automotive manufacturers to track the “location, status, condition and history of each reusable rack and container within the automotive supply chain.” Loss…
This blog, Part 3 of a series inspired by an Advantech webinar I attended entitled Enabling Smart Factories – The Transformation of Manufacturing Systems & Factory Facilities. This post covers the second of Dr. Jay Lee’s topics, Driving Forces and Emerging Technologies (Big Data, Agent, Industry 4.0 and Cyber-Physical Systems). You can read Part 1…
I recently began a series of posts inspired by a webinar entitled Enabling Smart Factories – The Transformation of Manufacturing Systems & Factory Facilities, hosted by Advantech and presented by Dr. Jay Lee. I introduced Dr. Lee and his Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems in Part 1 of this series. This blog covers the topic of…
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