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Advantech and Altizon Partnership Accelerates Industry 4.0 Transformation for Sustainable, Efficient Digital Factory Operations

prnewswire | April 28, 2023 | Read time : 02:00 min

Advantech and Altizon Partnership Accelerates Industry 4.0 Transformation for Sustainable, Efficient Digital Factory Operations

Advantech, a leading provider of industrial Internet of Things (IoT) hardware and automation technology, and Altizon, a global software provider of Industrial IoT platform, Datonis Digital Factory, are proud to announce the launch of their joint solution designed for ease of transformation to a smart factory.

The solution bundle includes specially selected Advantech edge hardware and Altizon's Datonis Digital Factory platform, pre-validated and pre-installed to ensure smooth deployment. Altizon's platform provides a ready-made suite of applications that digitize critical operational functions, such as production, maintenance, quality, energy and sustainability. Additional key features are as follows:

  • Secure data exchanges in real time
  • Edge device management from the cloud
  • Out-of-the box apps with rapid configuration capabilities
  • Standard set of reports and dashboards to accelerate business value realization
  • Data analysis at scale

"Altizon is excited to partner with Advantech for accelerating the growth of our Digital Factory applications and solutions," said Vinay Nathan, CEO, Altizon. "By offering out-of-the-box connectivity to Altizon's Digital Factory suite with Advantech's IIoT hardware, we see customers benefiting from a one-stop solution that is seamless to deploy and yields rapid ROI (Return on Investment)."

The bundle includes the following Advantech intelligent hardware device

  • UNO-2271G-V2 Intel-based Edge IoT Gateway 
  • ADAM-6717 Linux Intelligent I/O Gateway
  • WISE-S100 Stack Light Monitoring Sensor

"The partnership between Advantech and Altizon brings great value to our systems integrators and end-user customers by solving common pain points on the factory floor with simplified digital transformation," said Carolyn Swan, director of partnerships, Advantech North America IIoT Group. "Manufacturing systems integrators can help transition factories with less headache by deploying our bundle solution. End-user customers can be up and running within four to six weeks and enjoy higher productivity, real-time edge intelligent analytics, lower operational costs and faster time to market."

About Altizon

Altizon, a global industrial IoT company, powers digital revolutions by helping enterprises leverage machine data to drive business decisions. Altizon’s Datonis Manufacturing Suite applies advanced analytics and machine learning algorithms to accelerate smart manufacturing initiatives, modernize asset performance management and pioneer new business models for service delivery. Learn more at www.altizon.com.

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