Advantech Co., Ltd.

Advantech Co., Ltd.
Public
Traded as Chinese Taipei
Industry Electrical equipment, Computers
Founded 1983
Headquarters Taipei, Taiwan
Key people
 Ko Chen Liu, Chairman and CEO
Products Industrial electrical equipments, Business computers and Computer parts
Number of employees
 7500+
Website www.advantech.com

Advantech Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1983, Advantech is among the world's top 5 makers of Industrial PCs based on revenue and marketshare (30%) of large IPC vendors. For better or worse, these Industrial PC computer makers and enablers of industrial automation design and build the computers that the power industrial mass production of business and consumer goods (including: automobiles, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, etc.) and energy extraction (oil and gas, wind and solar) globally. Without industrial PC automation, many more people would be working mundane factory jobs today instead of in more creative or service-oriented industries.[1][2][3][4] The company’s shares have been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since December 1999 under stock ID 2395. The company is notable for setting industry standards in product life, strict version control and weathering business cycles through sometimes dizzying product line and consumptive industry diversification. Also of note, the company has been officially operated by the same CEO since inception - 34 years as of 2017.

Advantech, like GE, Siemens, Samsung is an example of a diversified conglomerate which builds multiple appliances and hardware for multiple industries and purposes, not just industrial computers.

Advantech offers system integration, hardware, software, custom design services and global logistics support for its many lines of computer systems and peripherals—similar to Dell, Lenovo, Quanta, Supermicro and other IPC makers.

Taipei Headquarters

lett-Packard]] engineers, according to the company's website. Other highlights from the 1980s:

Products

Advantech produces broad lines of electronics across four self-defined business units: Embedded Computing, Industrial Automation, Intelligent Systems, Intelligent Services. These products include computers and storage servers in box/rack mount/embedded form factors, tablet style displays (HMI), automation controllers and I/O modules, Ethernet and wireless networking equipment, and increasingly, vertical-focused products and solutions such as medical carts for hospitals and solar system data monitoring network equipment.

Awards

Advantech wins numerous industry product quality and design awards every decade. Recent examples:

Competitors

According to Technavio and RFD TV, major players in the world Industrial PC markets include:[7][8]

Other notable competitors

Major Customers

References

  1. ↑ "Global Industrial PC (IPC) Market: Trends and Opportunities (2015-2019)". Wise Guy Reports. Wise Guy Reports. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Advantech Q3 Quarterly Statement 2016". Advantech Quarterly Results. Advantech. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "ADLINK Q3 Quarterly Statement 2016" (PDF). ADLINK. ADLINK. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Kontron Group Q3 Quarterly Statement 2016" (PDF). Kontron AG. Kontron AG. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "2016 Engineers' Choice Awards finalists". controleng.com. Control Engineering.
  6. ↑ "Advantech Profile, iF World Design Guide". iF Design. iF World Design Guide.
  7. ↑ "Global Industrial PC Market 2016-2020". technavio. technavio. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "Industrial PC Report on Global Market by Players, Types and Applications, Status and Forecast, 2017-2022". RFDTV. RFDTV. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
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