24/7 manufacturing applications pose special challenges for the printing of mission-critical labels. These environments require flawless, on-demand print execution to ensure the continuous flow of production lines, and it is in these extreme, high-volume environments that Zebra’s Xi4 printers excel. When it comes to extreme, 24/7 applications, I can think of none more challenging than…
ometimes projects come along that cause us to rethink everything. For me, this happened most recently when asked to consult on a model automation system for astronomical observatories. Once I’d gotten over the novelty of that peculiar application and learned more of its details, I realized it had more in common with our more typical…
Although the fit-anywhere Mini-ITX motherboard design was originated more than a decade ago, it was only recently that implementation of its 170-mm by 170-mm form factor has hit full consumer-application stride. Even hardcore gamers are now discovering its potential. But the same factors that now make Mini-ITX boards so popular for driving home-theater systems –…
I find myself writing often these days about the Internet of Things, if only because the trend has captured such widespread public fascination. The fact is, rarely a week goes by that the subject doesn’t arise even in informal conversations, and IoT articles are now hitting one popular tech outlet or another almost daily. Lately,…
In my ongoing effort to keep abreast of the latest innovations offered by L-Tron’s technology partners, I find myself consulting Advantech’s growing library of online webinars ever more frequently in recent months. Sure, you and I can read much faster than we can listen to an audio-visual seminar, but that’s the problem: If you’re like…
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…
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…
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…
Advantech’s Ideal Box offers a far more constructive (and benign) template, one that greatly simplifies the translation of your industrial-computing ideas into actual, optimal, custom solutions. The Ideal Box system offers a logically sequenced process for determining key features of your design and for communicating them to Advantech’s Solution Integration Service (SIS). The Ideal Box…
For applications that call for fanless embedded box industrial PCs, we most often consider systems deploying low power-consumption processors such as offered by Intel’s Atom series. A prime example is Advantech’s ARK-3403 that features the efficiency of either Intel’s D510 or D525 Atom processors. But delivery of the most highly-configurable embedded box PCs requires the…
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