Another Advantech-Inspired Resource: The Industrial Wireless Book Special Edition

Partnering with technology leaders of such stature as Advantech offers L-Tron clients distinct advantages – some more obvious than others.  Sure, you likely already know about many of Advantech’s field-leading industrial-automation and intelligent-systems solutions, but are you aware of the independent research and analyses Advantech inspires and sponsors?  Case in point: IEB Media’s Industrial Wireless…

Advantech-Sponsored Fieldbus I/O: Networked I/O Rides the Ethernet Wave

Sometimes our search for one thing leads us instead to something equally wonderful yet totally unexpected.  This happened to me again today as my Internet search for one remembered title in the Advantech resource library led me instead to the discovery of a 25-page Advantech-sponsored tactical brief by Automation World entitled Fieldbus I/O.  This focused…

Advantech Announces Smarter, Faster, Greener EKI-3000 Ethernet Switches

Green-tech has been getting so much press in recent years that it’s easy to lose sight of its dollars-and-cents bottom-line significance amid all that noise.  Still, when advances in green-tech mean real improvements in the energy efficiency of the devices, such as Ethernet switches, that we deploy in vast numbers, the results can be not…

Zebra: Knitting Your IoT Links

Our blogs have covered the Internet of Things concept before, and undoubtedly will again and again as our industry-leading technology partners develop the myriad of innovations required to transform IoT from concept to reality. The fact is, lots of bloggers are focusing on IoT these days, many bemoaning that its promise isn’t being fulfilled more…

Are you Spending Too Much Time & Money on Your Warehouse Processes? Reduce Manual Processes.

It is highly likely that you spend a significant amount of time trying to come up with ways in which you can boost worker productivity without taxing the worker or the company’s capital expenditures.  Many organizations are now using wireless scanning devices, in partnership with a warehouse management system (WMS) to bring real‐time computing and…

Advantech’s Compact Ethernet Switches

As the challenges of industrial-network applications increase, Advantech’s Industrial Automation Group provides the technology required to meet and exceed those challenges. Case in point: Advantech’s rugged, compact, fast Ethernet switches designed specifically for factory- and machine-automation applications. Options include the full-Gigabit EKI-2728, EKI-2748FI and EKI-2748CI, as well as the 10/100M Ethernet EKI-2548I, EKI-2548SI and EKI-2548MI….

Conditions Requiring Advantech’s Wide Operating Temperature Human Machine Interface Systems (HMIs) May Be More Common Than You Think

We humans have been known to work under some decidedly extreme temperature ranges, but using a touch-input panel PC in temperatures as cold as -20°C (-4°F) or as high as +60°C (140°F)? Really? Well, if you’re called upon to work at such extreme temperatures, there’s an Advantech touch-panel solution that will survive those conditions far…