As a provider of essential networking and edge-computing infrastructure technologies, Advantech has ridden industry’s burgeoning interest in connectivity over the past decade to become a $1.6 billion global provider of the hardware that makes the Industrial IoT (IIoT) tick.
But to fuel continued growth, the company realizes it must provide more than just hardware and a generic IIoT “platform-as-a-service” enabler to its customers. Rather, Advantech sees tailored, pre-configured solutions consisting of both hardware and software designed to address specific industry challenges as its path forward. The company is partnering with other companies with domain-specific expertise to bring to market these “solution-ready packages,” or SRPs.
As proof of its commitment, the company unveiled the first 30 SRP applications of a larger planned portfolio at the Advantech IoT Co-creation Summit, November 1-2, 2018, in Suzhou, China. The event was the company’s first ecosystem-wide conference featuring technology exhibits, a robust conference program and more than 7,000 registrants. Among the array of SRPs unveiled were those for CNC machine management, wind turbine monitoring, distributed solar power, pump and motor monitoring, and intelligent water management solutions.