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Jun./Jul. 1999 Vol.13
 
Application Stories  
Network Communication for Industrial Control

A famous leading industrial controller company in Japan was attracted to Advantech by its reputation for quality, service, and reliability. It chose to work with Advantech on a successful ODM case recently. The product developed was a network communication solution for industrial control.

A Successful Product

The product itself is a communications controller/data router which links several PLC devices (in the field or factory) to an office intranet. This kind of connection enables individuals in the office to monitor, analyze and control the information from the PLC devices. The heart of this controller is Advantech's PCM-4822 3.5" 486-class SBC, which was ODM customized for this particular company.

A Successful ODM Partner

When needed, Advantech is able to customize almost any of its several hundred products to fit a customer's individual need. Such things as connectors, COM ports, and BIOS, among other things, can be modified. With this service, customers are able to dedicate almost all of their resources to software development. Also, with PC-based boards and cards, software is easy and quick to develop. Upgrades in hardware (in this case, from the PCM-4822 to PCM-4823) are virtually seamless, in terms of software and peripheral support.

Contact Advantech Today

If Advantech's wide range of PC-based products and complete ODM services interest you, feel free to contact Advantech today.

Supermarket Scale

Recently, a German systems integration company has used one of Advantech's 486-based 5.25" CPU boards to build a user-friendly supermarket scale with customizable keypads. The scale itself is used to record and automatically compute the price of such items as fruits, vegetables and meats. Price stickers are then printed and stuck on the sealed bag of goods.
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What's Inside

The CPU board that this company chose was Advantech's PCM-4862 486 SBC with VGA/LCD, Ethernet and SSD. Besides supporting processors up to DX4-100 or DX5-133, this board also features onboard VGA for monitors (up to 1024x768 @ 16 colors) and flat panels (up to 640x480 @ 256 colors). Also on-board is a 10Base-T Ether-net connector and support chips, as well as three 32-pin sockets for Flash/EPROM or DiskOnChip® 2000 Flash modules. This entire board is only the size of a 5.25" HDD.

Why Advantech?

Advantech was chosen because of its long-term relationship with this company. Several years ago, Advantech assisted this company with the development of an industrial-environment scale, with great success. Besides the current supermarket scale under production, this company already plans to work with Advantech in its next type and generation of product, most probably using one of Advantech's newer Pentium® processor-based SBC (PCM-5862, PCM-5862E, PCM-5864 or PCM-5820, the last of which is only as big as a 3.5" HDD). If you are interested in one of these or other related products, feel free to visit Advantech's web site at http://www.advantech.com/epc or contact your local Advantech representative today.

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