New North American Headquarters Opens
Advantech held an opening ceremony for its new North American headquarters in Tustin, California on Oct. 20 (U.S. time). Located in Tustin, Southern California, the 10-acre campus integrates regional operations offices, engineering, system integration, customer service and application showcase functions, further strengthening local operating capabilities in the North American market. The opening demonstrates Advantech's long-term commitment to investing in the North American market and marks an important milestone in advancing its global localization strategy.
System Integration and Showcase Capabilities
The newly established system integration and service center at the new headquarters will provide customized system assembly, hardware-software integration, product testing and delivery services. The technology showcase center on the campus will present innovative solutions co-developed by Advantech and its ecosystem partners, accelerating customers' progress from proof of concept to commercial deployment and strengthening high value-added industrial service capabilities.
Technology Summit Focuses on Vertical Applications
Following the opening event, Advantech held the Advantech Technology Summit in Newport Beach, California on Oct. 21, together with global technology partners including AMD, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm to jointly explore edge computing and Edge AI innovations. The summit focused on next-generation computing platforms, hardware-software integration and vertical industry applications, deepening ecosystem collaboration in smart healthcare, robotics, industrial automation and other fields through forward-looking technology sharing and solution showcases, accelerating technology adoption and deployment.
Over 6,000 Customers and Local Operations
General Manager of Advantech North America 牛文中 said Advantech has over 6,000 active customers in North America across diverse vertical markets including medical, semiconductor equipment and robotics. The new headquarters will strengthen local R&D, manufacturing and system integration, deepen co-creation with customers and ecosystem partners, provide customized solutions based on industry needs, and integrate engineering and technical service resources to shorten the timeline from product development and design to testing and delivery. Chairman 劉克振 said Advantech focuses its brand development on Edge Computing and AI-Powered WISE Solutions, deepening hardware-software platform integration and ecosystem collaboration to promote large-scale Edge AI deployment and move toward the goal of becoming a global leader, while using the new headquarters to provide space for industry-academia cooperation, technology exchange and community activities to realize the vision of being an enabler of an intelligent Earth.