One platform unites PLC, HMI, and IoT in a single system—streamlining automation and enabling new choices for manufacturing. Wish to know extra?
Advantech has launched the AMAX IoT Management Platform, a software-defined system that integrates PLC, HMI, and IoT features into one. It’s constructed to simplify automation integration whereas delivering deterministic real-time efficiency with microsecond-level precision. The platform is accessible, and extra particulars might be discovered via Advantech’s web site or native representatives.
AMAX is geared toward industries that want accuracy, scalability, and IoT connectivity. Its structure helps functions in semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, meeting, and vision-guided manufacturing. For vitality storage, infrastructure, and equipment producers, it presents monitoring and management with out requiring full system redesigns.
The platform makes use of a PC-based structure constructed on EtherCAT industrial Ethernet and real-time working methods. It helps each Home windows and Linux runtimes beneath the CODESYS framework, making certain compatibility with IEC 61131-3 and enabling migration from PLCs. Producers can reuse current functions whereas gaining movement management and robotics features.
The AMAX household consists of three classes of controllers for various wants.
- AMAX-PT Panel Controllers use Intel® Core™ and Atom® processors for HMI functions with show choices.
- AMAX-7 Industrial PC Controllers present efficiency, I/O capability, and enlargement for imaginative and prescient inspection and processes.
- AMAX-5 Embedded Controllers are modular, expandable through AMAX-5000 Slice I/O and PCIe, and suited to edge knowledge acquisition and medium-scale management.
All AMAX controllers help EtherCAT I/O enlargement and protocols comparable to MQTT, OPC UA, CANOpen, and Modbus, making them work with each fashionable and legacy methods. Actual-time efficiency is enabled via Intel® Time Coordinated Computing (TCC) and Advantech’s BIOS engineering, delivering cycle instances of 500 μs to 1 ms with minimal jitter. Every platform is validated in Advantech’s verification facilities to make sure efficiency.
Software program integration is supplied by AMAX Studio, an surroundings for configuration, programming, tuning, and diagnostics. It helps all AMAX controllers and main industrial communication requirements, lowering growth time and simplifying integration throughout automation methods.
By combining PLC, HMI, and IoT features into one, AMAX IoT Management Platform removes fragmented automation setups and helps producers implement automation with much less complexity.
