At SPS 2023, discover how Advantech's breakthrough solutions help increase productivity and efficiency

Partner ecosystem of solutions speeds up and supports sustainable industry transformations

Advantech, a global leader in Industrial IoT and Intelligent Systems, will showcase its latest advancements in edge computing for artificial intelligence, digital transformation, virtualization, and robotics/AGV/AMR applications at SPS 2023 (Hall 7, booth 370) from the 14th to 16th of November. Underlined by the motto "Enabling an Intelligent and Sustainable Planet", Advantech will display a wide range of solutions that enable OEMs and system integrators to develop sustainable and efficient smart manufacturing environments.

Rick de Vries, IIoT Sales Director Central Europe, said: “At SPS Germany 2023, we will demonstrate the power of real-time virtualization and how to achieve the highest levels of cyber security. We will also display our latest AI implementation, which has been designed to provide valuable insight and modeling capabilities for situational awareness, predictive maintenance and IoT gateway solutions, for connecting to management clouds.” Additionally, Rick said, “We want to provide SPS visitors with the opportunity to interact and explore technologies that will define the future, while always keeping human beings at the forefront, in the perspective of enabling a smart and sustainable society.”

Jash Bansidhar, Managing Director of Advantech Europe, added: "Projects involving the use of IIoT are being implemented on an increasing scale today. The Industrial Internet of Things has definitely ceased to be just a concept and has become a real foundation for the operation of many manufacturing companies. The benefits in terms of process transparency, i.e. the possibility of their monitoring and optimization, are obvious. As a result, there is an increasing need for integrators and providers of IIoT technologies. From our perspective, this means development into local partner networks. Advantech's business model assumes that we offer our solutions to individual markets through local partners. The development of our company's ecosystem is an important element of its strategy. Moreover, the progressing globalization makes industries look for global support services - both in terms of assessing the possibility of using technology and its implementation and further maintenance. Advantech, as a global company with many years of experience, is ready to provide such support.”

At the booth, visitors can learn more through interactive demos and speak to Advantech’s specialist team, exploring the following applications and areas: 

• Artificial Intelligence: Among the solutions at the booth are data-driven and AI-enabled use cases that will improve manufacturing operations with advanced digital simulations, autonomous factory operations, digital quality management, and strategic asset management.
• Digital transformation: Manufacturing in the past has focused on lean and just-in-time production processes, emphasizing cost reduction, waste elimination, and increased efficiency of the entire organization through customer demand-pulling processes. Nowadays, digital technology provides fundamental value that presents commercial value through the immediacy and accuracy of information — driving rapid responses and decision-making.
• Virtualization: Virtualization is a method that enables a computer to share its hardware resources with numerous digitally separated environments. Each virtualized environment uses its own set of resources, such as memory, computing power, and storage. This area will focus on tools for virtualized environments with Advantech’s powerful solutions.
• AGV/AMR/Robotics: This area will include the latest solutions for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs) by providing robot manufacturers and integrators access to both cutting-edge industrial computing technology and a powerful software platform for building, deploying, and running intelligent robots.
• Technology area: At this final technology focus area, Advantech will showcase its software and tools, detailing how the company can speed up the development process, with its show team available to answer any questions and provide useful insight.

Partners highlighted at the booth

There will be a range of Advantech partners showcased at the booth, including visionplatform.ai, Teleport Köln, Salz Automation and Ambient Technomancy.

visionplatform.ai (https://visionplatform.ai/) specializes in directly applicable artificial intelligence with solutions for AI vision, data predictions, and document automation. They develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of workflow and business processes. Their high-end, state-of-the-art solutions relieve employees of repetitive activities. This improves work performance and frees up time for more strategic and demanding tasks, thus helping employees thrive in what they do, all for the sake of the business.

Teleport Köln (https://teleport-koeln.de/) bundles 25 years of experience as an ICT system provider to offer turnkey edge computing infrastructures with the Edgizer solution (https://edgizer.com/). Complex IT requirements can thus be met for management, maintenance, and connectivity of edge devices as well as their software. Using the same tools that have already proven themselves in the cloud computing world helps to facilitate the transition to edge computing. This allows for both a simple entry as well as the creation of complex, globally distributed edge scenarios.

Salz Automation (https://www.salz-automation.com/) is a partner for future-proofing industrial automation and offers domain expertise. The founders of SALZ Automation have over 40 years of combined experience in automation technology and share the vision of a revolutionary flexible, safe and secured automation system. So that, what the world will need tomorrow can be created today: real progress and sustainable investment security. Together with Advantech, Salz developed an automation system for industrial real-time applications.

Ambient Technomancy (https://ambienttechnomancy.com/) was founded by Niklas Kvarnström in 2019. It is built on over 25+ years of experience in the real world and clearly seeing a need for companies to benefit from that knowledge. In today's industry a huge gap exists between Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT), also referred to as the IT/OT convergence. Often there is not enough time to attend seminars or exhibitions to get acquainted with this vast topic. Ambient Technomancy offers services that will help and support manufacturers with the right know-how and implementation for concepts like Digital Twins, Industry 4.0 and the Holistic Factory.

Reason to celebrate

Advantech celebrates its 40th anniversary at the booth this year and welcomes visitors to join the company for sustainably grown local wine tasting from a unique Nuremberg wine-maker and indulge in 40th-anniversary confectionery. As part of this celebration, the company will also feature an energy-generating bike at the booth, allowing visitors to recharge their phones through pedaling.

Underlining its commitment to sustainability and ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance), Advantech continuously strives to implement measures that make industrial operations more efficient. Advantech’s ESG vision began with the corporate vision of “Enabling an intelligent planet.” Considering the core competitiveness, key development strategies, and response to the UN SDGs, Advantech aims to leverage its AIoT core competencies and smart solutions to assist in realizing SDG 7 and SDG 13 for improved energy efficiency, energy-saving in buildings and in manufacturing, and low carbon emissions in logistics and retail. Through its open, innovative environment and education efforts aimed at popularizing IoT platforms and solutions, Advantech seeks to provide outstanding education (SDG 4) and promote partnerships (SDG 17). The goal is to increase its energy efficiency by 87% by 2023 and to run its factories on 100% renewable energy by 2032.