The project is commissioned, signed off and handed over. Everyone moves on to the next job. Then, 12 months later, the customer calls with a hardware fault and no one wants to own it. Warranty periods have ended, budgets are closed and the fix suddenly becomes a...
When ageing industrial PCs fail, it’s rarely an easy situation. When the PC is running part of a production process, the consequences can be immediate and costly. Often the PC will degrade quietly. Intermittent lock-ups, unexplained reboots, or I/O faults begin...
The UNO-148 V2 DIN-rail automation controller from Advantech unlocks edge AI capabilities, levelling up real-time control and automation across a variety of AI-driven industries. It’s equipped with the latest 13th Gen Intel® Core™ processors and an innovative...
If you are specifying industrial PCs for a current or upcoming project, now is a good time to move. Since December, prices for industrial RAM and SSDs have continued to rise, and lead times across the market are stretching further. There is little indication that...
Unplanned Windows updates are a common cause of downtime in industrial systems. A forced reboot, a feature update that changes system behaviour or a driver incompatibility can interrupt otherwise stable operations. In an industrial environment, that can mean lost...
The IPC-221 from Advantech is a space-saving compact industrial computer chassis, packing desktop CPU performance (65W) into a compact box PC (240 x 233 x 93 mm) with a single-sided I/O layout. It delivers stable, high-performance computing to meet a wide range of...
