Traditional manufacturing enterprises are facing severe challenges in digital transformation and upgrading. As the demand for personalized product production continues to increase, customers are becoming more stringent in their quality requirements. The status of production equipment affects production efficiency and product quality, and production data and equipment data are becoming the core driving force behind the digital transformation and upgrading of production lines. Traditional digital upgrade solutions require integrating products from various functional fields such as PLCs, PCs, gateways, and SCADA software into the same system through system integration to achieve industrial IoT solutions, resulting in complex system architecture, high costs, and significant security risks. This also increases the programming development difficulty and software development costs for software engineers, as well as the costs for on-site maintenance and spare parts replacement.
With the acceleration of equipment intelligence trends, engineers need products that can integrate PLC control technology with PC information technology, combining PLC controllers, PCs, gateways, motion control, I/O data acquisition, fieldbus protocols, machine vision, and device networking into a single control platform.
Advantech has launched the WISE-5000 series industrial IoT edge controllers, which can simultaneously achieve device motion control, machine vision, predictive maintenance, device networking, data analysis and optimization control, with data directly connecting to the industrial cloud platform, enabling intelligent production line control in collaboration with remote industrial cloud platforms.
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Product Features
Product Advantages
Compact size, space-saving
The WISE-5000 is one of the smallest and fastest open platforms in the industry. It has a compact structure, with a height of 10 centimeters, and the plug-in I/O modules are all mounted on standard DIN rails. When installed in the equipment control cabinet, no additional drilling or mechanical devices are required, saving space and allowing industrial equipment to cross boundaries.
High-speed processing, improved machine efficiency
The WISE-5000 series is equipped with Intel’s sixth-generation Skylake Core processors. The sides of the controller use standard PCI Express high-speed interfaces and EtherCAT communication protocol design, providing transmission speeds of up to 100 Mbps. This greatly enhances the real-time performance and accuracy of the WISE-5000 when transmitting and processing large data.
Flexible expansion to meet diverse needs
The WISE-5000 adopts a modular EtherCAT I/O and PCI Express interface design, providing users with diverse I/O and communication modules for data acquisition, control, and transmission. This maintains scalability and accurately matches actual needs while avoiding waste of additional equipment resources.
Highly integrated information and automation technologies
The WISE-5000 integrates the advantages of traditional PLCs and PC platforms. It can run high-speed data acquisition, motion control, machine vision, and logic control on a single platform, while also achieving information-based database and cloud platform interaction, accommodating third-party software integration, making it easier for equipment manufacturers to integrate IT and OT applications.
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