History & Milestones
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1981
- Invested a capital stock of NT$2,000,000
- Decided that the official company name would be “Advantech Co., Ltd.” and established the company to operate as a business for desktop computer module measurement automation systems.
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1983
- Advantech formally began operations.
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1985
- Reorganized the company as a limited company
- Launched various standardized PC-based automatic test system products.
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1987
- Developed and produced PC/XT/AT plug-in data acquisition cards (i.e., the PC-Lab Card series) and launched them domestically and internationally.
- First participated in an exhibition, starting business in mainland China and international markets. Set up branch office in San Francisco, Ca, USA.
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1989
- Established the Xindian factory
- Developed the industrial PC (IPC) product line and experienced smooth production and sales. This became Advantech’s second major product line.
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1990
- Introduced the first industrial PC - IPC-600.
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1991
- Integrated the in-house developed industrial-grade CPU card and IPC chassis into a complete industrial-grade PC.
- Now offering a complete line of products, Advantech had become a comprehensive PC system component supplier for industrial automation applications, gradually gaining international recognition.
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1992
- Introduced the Industrial Workstation series for industrial monitoring workstations.
- Successfully developed the ADAM-4000 series of remote data acquisition modules, which became a breakthrough product for distal measurement signal processing and communication.
- Set up office in Beijing, China.
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1993
- Received with the 2nd National Award of Small & Medium Enterprises by National Association of Small & Medium Enterprises,R.O.C.
- Received ISO-9001 Quality Management System Certification.
- Developed the AWS-850/860-II IPC Workstation.
- Set up offices in Düsseldorf, Germany / Paris, France / Milan, Italy.
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1994
- Founded Advantech Germany with 100% equity acquired.
- Developed overseas sales offices.
- Cooperated with Mechanical and Systems Research Laboratories of Industrial Technology Research Institute to introduce PC and industrial controllers and motion control cards.
- Developed the Embedded Computer Module series.
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1995
- Established global branch offices in Singapore (100% equity acquired).
- Established global branch offices in Budapest, Hungary (30% equity acquired).
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1996
- Received the 4th Taiwan Industrial Technology Advancement Most Outstanding Award (MOEA, Taiwan, R.O.C.).
- Established a quality assurance laboratory to significantly improve product quality.
- ADAM-4000 series product won Taiwan Excellence Award by Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs.
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1997
- Approved for public offering.
- Established an audit office as well as internal control and audit systems.
- Established subsidiaries in Japan, the UK, and France with 100% equity acquired.
- Merged the U.S. subsidiary with 72.03% equity acquired.
- Received the 5th Taiwan Industrial Technology Advancement Most Outstanding Award (MOEA, Taiwan, R.O.C.).
- Symbol of Taiwan Excellence Winner for the PPC-102 series.
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1998
- Established subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Germany, and the Virgin Islands with 100% equity acquired.
- Established a joint venture in Italy with 25% equity acquired.
- 6th Symbol of Taiwan Excellence Gold Award Winner for the PPC-102T Panel Computer.
- Received the Singapore Comdex Asia Best Hardware System Award for the PPC-140T multi-function panel PC.
- Received ISO-14001 Environmental Management System Certification.
- Awarded with the Most Representative Outstanding Company (Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA, Taiwan, R.O.C.).
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1999
- ADAM series received the 1st Taiwan Outstanding Safety Instrument Award.
- Began constructing the Advantech Neihu Technology Building with completion forecast for mid-2001.
- Purchased land (2,147 ping; equiv. 7,097.5 m2) in Donghu and occupied the premises by the end of September.
- Completed IPO on the Taiwan Stock Exchange on December 13.
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2000
- Purchased additional land (1,445 ping; 4,776.9 m2) at the Donghu Plant.
- Merged with PCS for US$1.77 million.
- Established several investment companies: Advantech Investment, Advantech (Guangzhou Bond Zone) Co., ABR, AAC (BVI), AACB, APN, and AKL.
- Received the 2000 Outstanding Export & Import Performance Award (General Chamber of Commerce, Taiwan, R.O.C.).
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2001
- Moved into Advantech Headquarters in Neihu District, Taipei, in July 2001.
- Established AHK and AKMC and invested in AAU.
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2002
- Established AASC and invested in ABB and Axiomtek Co., Ltd.
- Received “2002 Headquarters Operation Certification” (Industrial Development Bureau, MOEA, Taiwan, R.O.C.).
- Implemented the Innovation Center Operations Plan Embedded Systems R&D Center with approval from the Department of Industrial Technology (MOEA, Taiwan, R.O.C.).
- Accepted as the sole Gold-Level Partner in Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Partner ODM Category.
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2003
- Established AEU and invested in Advantech Consulting Co., Ltd.
- Received “2003 Headquarters Operation Certification” from the Industrial Development Bureau (MOEA).
- Symbol of Taiwan Excellence Winner for the ADAM-6000 series of intelligent data acquisition network control modules.
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2004
- Indirectly invested in ATH (Advantech Corporation (Thailand) Co., Ltd.) and ADMC.
- Won first prize in the 2004 Control Design (USA) Reader’s Choice Award for single-board computers.
- Received first prize for the 2004 Editor’s Choice Award under the human–machine interface (HMI) category from the magazine Control Engineering (USA) for the FPM-3170 17” Flat Panel Monitor.
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2005
- Formed a strategic alliance with AsusTek; Advantech acquired 1.36% equity of AsusTek and AsusTek acquired 15% equity of Advantech through stock swap.
- Symbol of Taiwan Excellence Winner for the TPC-60S, UNO-3062, and AWS-8100G.
- Received third prize in the 2005 Readers’ Choice Award for Industrial Computers from Control Buyer’s Guide (USA).
- Embedded Control Europe magazine readers nominated the TREK-755 Sunlight Readable Model for the Gold Award of the 13th MOEA Industrial Technology Advancement Award of Excellence.
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2006
- Received the Readers’ Choice Award for single-board computers from Control Design.
- Received the 2nd Corporate Social Responsibility Award from the magazine Global Views (Taiwan, R.O.C.).
- Received The Most Growth in Asia Award from Microsoft.
- Received the Intel Associate Partner of the Year and Multi-Core Solution Contest Award.
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2007
- Received the 3rd Corporate Social Responsibility Award, Top Honor for 2006 from Global Views (Taiwan, R.O.C.).
- Received the 1st Corporate Social Responsibility Award from CommonWealth Magazine (Taiwan, R.O.C.)
- Received the Computex Taipei Best Choice Award for the ARK-3381.
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2008
- Received 4th prize in the 2nd Corporate Social Responsibility Award from CommonWealth Magazine.
- Established Shanghai Advantech Intelligent Services Co., Ltd. (AiSC).
- Established Xi’An Advantech Software Co., Ltd.
- Acquired Advantech Yang-Kwong Building as an office building in Neihu District, Taipei City.
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2009
- Received the Decade Industrial Contribution and Decade Leading Industry awards from China gongkong.
- Advantech and the U.S. subsidiary jointly acquired 60% equity of Advantech Brazil S/A (ABR).
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2010
- Advantech Co., Ltd. established Advantech Intelligent Co., Ltd.
- Received the Taiwan Top 12 Global Brands Award.
- Advantech paid EUR12.85 million to acquire 100% equity of DLoG GmbH Company of Augusta Technologies AG.
- Advantech paid 2,668 million to acquire 100% equity of Advantech KR Co., Ltd. of SG Advantech Co., Ltd.
- Advantech paid £3.34 million to acquire 100% equity of Innocore Gaming Ltd.
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2011
- Advantech paid NT$93 million to acquire 99.36% equity of ACA.
- Received the Taiwan Top 10 Global Brands Award.
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2012
- Advantech paid NT$306 million to acquire 50% equity of Advansus Corp.
- Ranked 11th for the Taiwan 2012 Top-20 Global Brand Award with a brand value of US$260 million.
- Established a subsidiary in India (AIN).
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2013
- Ranked 11th in the 2012 Corporate Citizen Award from CommonWealth Magazine.
- Advantech Industrial Automation Group HMI TPC and SPC series won the 2013 iF Product Design Award in Germany.
- Paid NT$319 million to acquire 70.2% equity of POS manufacturer AdvanPOS.
- Paid NT$730 million to acquire 100% equity of the controller manufacturer LNC.
- Paid £5.85 million to acquire 100% equity of the wisdom embedded displays manufacturer GPEG (UK).
- Advantech organizes global "Cycling with Advantech @ 30" event to celebrate its 30th Anniversary.
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2014
- Established Advantech Plus Technology Center (A+TC), Kunshan, China.
- Grand opening of the Advantech Linkou IoT Campus.
- Received the CSR Best Workplace Excellence Award from Global Views Monthly in 2014.
- Formally established the Advantech Investment Department to actively deploy solutions for smart city and IoT markets.
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2015
- MICA-071 Wins Taiwan Excellence Gold Award.
- MIT-M101 Wins Taiwan Excellence Silver Award.
- Advantech ranked No. 7 in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award.
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2016
- Received the 2016 iF product design award in Germany for the PWS-870.
- Formed a strategic alliance with Inventec Corporation to establish the joint venture company “AIMobile Co., Ltd.”
- Acquired 100% stock rights of B+B SmartWorx, Inc. from Graham Partners for US$9.985 million.
- ATC (HK) purchased 100% stock rights of Yeh Chiang (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. from Yeh Chiang Technology (Cayman) Corp. for RMB$9.35 million.
- Advantech ranked No. 6 in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award.
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2017
- Advantech Linkou Industrial Park Stage II construction officially completed at the end of October.
- Advantech announced that it will acquire a 60% stake in the South Korean medical display company Kostec.
- Advantch invests 12 million private placement common shares of Winmate at a price of NT$45 per share (total, NT$540 million)
- Advantech ranked No. 6 (with brand value USD484 million) in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award.
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2018
- Advantech opens its new European Service Center and it becomes the first Advantech Industry 4.0 real site demo in Europe.
- 26th Symbol of Taiwan Excellence Silver Medal Winner for the iPS-M100 Hot Swappable Medical-grade Industrial Power System and POC-WP243 24” Medical Computer.
- The Vietnamese Subsidiary (AVN) and the Russian Subsidiary (ARU) are established.
- Advantech held the first Advantech IoT Co-Creation Summit at Suzhou International Expo Center today with over 6 thousand Advantech clients and partners around the world attended the Summit which Advantech had introduce itsnewest IoT platform structure WISE-PaaS 3.0 and 32 IoT solution ready packages (SRPs) that was co-created with software and industry partners.
- Advantech ranked No. 5 (with brand value USD500 million) in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award.
- Advantedh DLT-V4108 Vehicle-Mounted Terminal Wins 2018 Red Dot Product Design Award.
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2019
- Advantech complete the 80% stake acquisition of OMRON Nohgata, a subsidiary of OMRON Corporation. OMRON Nohgata will now be known as “Advantech Technologies Japan” (ATJ) .
- Advantech subscribed shares from the Turkish Company Alitek and issued new shares, and Advantech held 60% of shares of Alitek.
- Advantech acquire 5.08 million shares of Information Technology Total Services Co Ltd (ITTS) for NT$147.44 million through a private placement which deal would give Advantech a 20 percent stake in ITTS.
- Advantech establishs a office in Israel.
- Advantech ranks 5th among Taiwan's global brands in 2019 with a brand value of US$556 million.
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2020
- Advantech subsidiary (Advantech Corporate Investment) invests private equity fund China Broadband Capital Partners IV, L.P.
- Merge of Advantech KR Co.,Ltd.and Kostec Co.,Ltd.
- Merge of Advantech Corporation and B+B SmartWorx Inc.
- Advantech ranked No. 4 (with brand value USD 626 million) in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award.
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2021
- The 29th Symbol of Taiwan Excellence Winner for WISE-6610, WISE-2410, EIS-S230
- Advantech ranked No. 5 (with brand value USD 6.32 million) in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award.
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2022
- The 30th Symbol of Taiwan Excellence Winner for EPD-230 and EI-52.
- EPD-230 won the Taiwan Excellence Silver Award.
- Advantech ranked No. 5 (with brand value USD 776 Million) in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award.
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2023
- Advantech ranked No. 5 (with brand value USD 881 Million) in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award.
- Advantech achieved its debut ranking among the top 10% of companies in sustainable development on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI-World).
- Advantech officially became a member of RE100 and has pledged to shift 50% of its energy usage to renewables in Advantech Taiwan and Advantech Kunshan by 2030, and aims to transition entirely to green energy in its global operational bases by 2040.
- Advantech announced the cash acquisition of an 100% equity stake in BitFlow, Inc., a North American company dedicated to high-end image acquisition and AI machine vision technology.
- Advantech hosted the WPC Partner Conference, attracting more than 700 customers and partners from over 30 countries worldwide to explore new business opportunities in the era of AIoT and Edge Computing.
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2024
- Advantech has been selected the Top 5 of '2024 Best Taiwan Global Brands' with a brand value of US$851 million.
- Advantech Wins a Place Among the 2024 World's Top 10% Benchmark Sustainable Companies of S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook.
- Advantech's Acquisition of French POS and KIOSK Brand Company Aures: Advancing Towards Global Leadership in Intelligent Retail.
- Advantech held a Baseball Family Day at the Taipei Dome. The event opened with welcome remarks by Chairman K.C. Liu, and featured a ceremonial first pitch by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, alongside Miller Chang, President of Advantech’s Embedded Sector, highlighting the close collaboration between the two companies.
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2025
- Advantech ranked No. 4 (with brand value USD 896 Million) in the Taiwan Top 20 Global Brands Award, with a 5 % growth in brand value.
- Advantech continues to advance its ESG initiatives and has received international recognition with an EcoVadis Silver rating, reflecting strong performance in environmental practices, labor and human rights, business ethics, and sustainable procurement.
- The 'WISE-IoT Andon AI-Powered Digital Solution' and 'LEO-L50 Outdoor Asset Management Device,' have won the prestigious 2025 iF Design Award.
- Advantech Launches “Edge Computing & WISE-Edge in Action” Series of Conferences, Exhibits and Livestreams at COMPUTEX 2025