Advantech uses this interview to walk through how its industrial panel PCs, IP65 HMIs and box PCs can orchestrate a complete secondary packaging line, from machine control to line-level monitoring and OT/IT connectivity. Fabio explains how the same hardware families span use cases from machine builders to factory digitalization, transportation and utilities, always with ruggedized, wide-temperature, fanless designs suitable for harsh industrial environments and continuous operation at the edge. More information on the broader IPC and HMI portfolio is available at https://www.advantech.com/
One focus in the demo is an IP65 all-around HMI, mounted on an arm, combined with the pocket-size UNO-2271G industrial gateway. This compact box PC brings Intel Atom or latest Celeron-class compute, dual LAN, HDMI and USB 3.0 into a fanless, wide-temperature enclosure, making it a small but capable edge node for smart factory use. A converter aggregates HDMI and USB over a single Ethernet cable using HDBaseT-class technology, so video, touch and data are all carried to the sealed HMI while keeping electronics safely in a control cabinet. The front panel can host customizable emergency stop, key-switch and selector buttons plus RFID-based user authentication, aligning operator ergonomics with machine safety and access control requirements
Advantech also shows a 10-inch full HD USB-C monitor powered entirely from the same UNO-2271G, where a single cable carries power, display signal and touch input to simplify installation and reduce cable clutter on packaging lines. Looking ahead, Fabio introduces the TPC-200 concept: a web panel that integrates a Qualcomm CPU with on-board MPU and AI acceleration, plus a smart camera behind the bezel, to run local vision inspection directly in the HMI. This fits into Advantech’s broader collaboration with Qualcomm to offer energy-efficient, edge AI platforms capable of multi-camera vision, model inference and on-premises generative workloads for industrial customers
Beyond HMIs, the booth highlights a spectrum of industrial box PCs from entry-level gateways to high-end Intel Core Ultra systems with optional NVIDIA Quadro GPU cards for demanding machine vision and analytics workloads. These fanless embedded PCs expose multiple GbE ports, serial interfaces and industrial power connectors, so they can aggregate sensor data, drive AI-based automated optical inspection and coordinate motion control across secondary packaging cells and battery production lines. By scaling CPU, GPU and I/O density across families, Advantech allows OEMs to reuse the same platform architecture from simple gateways up to GPU-accelerated vision servers deployed alongside conveyor systems and robotic case packers
Fabio closes by situating this portfolio in Advantech’s global footprint and the SPS Nuremberg 2025 context, noting that the company holds a significant share of the global IPC and panel PC market with more than 20,000 standard part numbers and extensive customization options from branding and color to mechanics and software. European operations combine a commercial office and lab in Italy with a regional HQ and configuration services in Eindhoven, backed by three major manufacturing sites in Taipei, China and Japan that can take over each other’s production if needed. As SPS evolves from pure machine automation toward OT/IT convergence, AI vision and data-centric smart factories, the discussion shows how Advantech positions its HMIs and edge PCs as a modular hardware layer ready for modern industrial digitalization
Advantech UNO-2271G and Qualcomm HMI Prototype for Machine Vision Edge Computing
