Advantech, a worldwide leader in Industrial Intelligent Systems, announced on Nov. 16 that it entered into an agreement, subject to customary closing conditions, to acquire B+B SmartWorx Inc., a privately-held company based in Ottawa, IL, for US$99.85 million. B+B SmartWorx will be led by the current management team and will join Advantech’s Industrial IoT Business Group in developing new products and integrating global sales resources. With this acquisition, Advantech will expand its Industrial Connectivity product portfolio and increase its global market share by leveraging B+B SmartWorx’ branding and sales channels in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.

Advantech’s Industrial Connectivity Group (ICG) are pleased to announce the launch of their first switch which supports IXM device management technology. IXM, provides engineers with the ability to assign a fixed range of IP address to many devices at the same time, and also provides them with the ability to simultaneously copy the same switch configuration across multiple switches. Once the ‘master’ has been configured, IXM can be launched and within seconds all other IXM compatible switches will be populated with the same settings. This function saves up to 90% of the configuration time not only speeds up the configuration but also ensures that mistakes aren’t made.

Advantech, a leading global provider of intelligent systems and platform solutions across multiple vertical markets, announced a range of platforms based on 6th generation Intel^® Core™ processors (formerly Skylake) including industrial motherboards, slot single-board computers (SBCs), modular IPCs, industrial serverboards, and transportation platforms. With enhanced CPU performance, media and graphics capabilities, and security and power efficiency, these new platforms are ideal for powering intelligent systems designed for diverse markets, such as video surveillance, medical, industrial automation, gaming and transportation infrastructure.

September 2015 – The latest in the Advantech family is an application-ready solution that brings together a rugged hardware platform (a Panel PC or an embedded fanless PC), and a user-friendly HMI interface. Panel Express is the perfect one-stop solution for all customers that are looking for a unique supplier providing efficient, integrated solutions to support various demanding tasks in harsh and industrial environments, where ruggedness is the key feature.

Eindhoven, July 2015 – Advantech’s new ADAM-5560CDS, is a cost efficient modular IPC controller based on CODESYS V3 embedded engineering platform equipped with an Intel Atom D510 CPU including controller specific features such as a watch dog, RAM with battery back-up and pre-installed with the real time embedded OS WIN CE6.0. The basic unit provides space for 7 internal I/O slots (for digital and analog I/O) which can totally support applications up to 224 I/O points. Two on board Ethernet ports (2xRJ45) allow the connectivity to multiple network architectures and remote I/O components.

Advantech's iConnectivity Group (ICG) unveils New ProView SCADA manageable series switches which are the world’s first convergence switches for process control and IT networking management.

January 2015 Due to Intel main components phase out Advantech has announced the end of life of the star selling series 50H and 51H based on Luna Pier and eMenlow Intel architectures.

Eindhoven – January 2015 – Advantech’s Industrial Automation Group (IAG) are pleased to announce the launch of a new huge step forward in HMI/SCADA software with a HTML5 based Business Intelligence Dashboard.

(Milan, January 2015) The new UNO-2483G/2473G is the latest UNO series to include the both the latest Intel^®4th Generation Core ™ and the latest i/ Atom ™ processors, Advantech’s new modular iDoor technology and fault tolerant Gigabit Ethernet.

Ideal for use in machine manufacturing industries such as semi-conductor manufacture, Advantech’s Industrial Automation Group has launched an exciting new range of Web operator panels. These newly designed models, with flat panel IP66 certified aluminum edging, include the latest Intel Cortex-A8 processor which is not only faster but also consumes the minimum amount of power and also supports RS-232/422/485/ Ethernet and CANopen protocols to ensure that they’ll connect to your existing network.