In today’s traditional industries with overcapacity at the low-end and insufficient supply at the high-end, the “new three types” of foreign trade represented by new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and lithium batteries have added a touch of brilliance to Chinese manufacturing and become global industry leaders. Behind the rapid rise of emerging industries such as “new three types”, semiconductors, and wind power, testing and measurement manufacturers such as Advantech are constantly breaking through the technological blockade of Europe and America, providing continuous support for emerging industries with high-precision, cost-effective products and fast localized services, achieving breakthrough development.

01 Precision testing and measurement:
A hidden ‘neck binding’ field
The saying goes that in order to do a good job, one must first sharpen their tools. Precision testing and measurement, as a fundamental high-end technology, is an important indicator of a country’s scientific research and overall industrial leadership, and is also a necessary condition for the development of high-end manufacturing industry. There is also a consensus in the industry that “without measurement, there can be no manufacturing” and “without ultra precision measurement, there can be no high-end equipment manufacturing”.

Therefore, for high-end test and measurement equipment and technology, European and American manufacturers have always had a technical blockade on Chinese enterprises. For example, high-end data acquisition cards with a collection rate of more than 100M and a resolution of more than 16 bits are rare in the Chinese Mainland market. Like manufacturing equipment, testing and measuring equipment is also a bottleneck that restricts the development of China’s high-end manufacturing industry. Due to the relatively small scale of the testing and measurement industry, especially in the field of high-precision measurement, it does not have as much influence as the semiconductor equipment industry. Therefore, the “bottleneck” problems in the testing and measurement field are also secretive and often fail to attract public attention.

For emerging high-tech industries such as semiconductors, new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, wind power, ultra-high voltage, electricity, lithium batteries, energy storage, as well as domestic research industries such as aerospace and scientific research, to achieve global industry leadership, high-precision measurement equipment and technology support are indispensable. For example, in the semiconductor industry, testing equipment is the key to the semiconductor packaging process, directly affecting the process and product yield. Therefore, in order for high-tech emerging industries to rise rapidly, it is necessary to break through the European and American blockade in the field of testing and measurement and achieve independent development.

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Advantech Testing and Measurement,
Breaking through the DAQ software and hardware blockade in Europe and America
In high-precision testing and measurement applications, whether it is industrial scenarios such as electronic semiconductor testing, automotive component testing, high-speed acquisition and measurement, equipment status and vibration monitoring, or scientific research scenarios such as laboratory testing and measurement, teaching applications, etc., due to the fact that PCI, PXI and other testing and measurement technologies originated from some foreign enterprises, as one of the important platforms for high-end testing and measurement, some industries’ precision testing and measurement systems have been monopolized by European and American manufacturers, especially in some high-end application fields, and are even prohibited from being sold to Chinese enterprises.

Fortunately, with the advancement of technology, leading local manufacturers in the field of measurement have begun to make breakthroughs in DAQ software and hardware, and have even completely broken through the European and American technology blockade in high-end hardware boards. Advantech is one of the best among them. At present, Advantech DAQ has become an important technical supporter and enabler behind the rise of emerging products in China, thanks to its rich product line, powerful performance, and seamless integration with virtual instrument software such as Labview.

Advantage one
Meet the needs of innovative and high specification applications
Compared to European and American users, Chinese users are more innovative and challenging, with fast investment and speed in new scenario applications and innovative research and development. This places high demands on the application and technical requirements of testing and measurement hardware, and only local testing and measurement brands can support and respond quickly. For example, in semiconductor wafer testing, new energy vehicle controller testing, aerospace component testing and other scenarios, in order to achieve higher process accuracy, the data acquisition speed needs to be more than 100M, and at the same time, it needs to have a resolution of 16 bits or more, while the product resolution provided by European and American manufacturers to users in Chinese Mainland is generally 12-14 bits.
In response to this “bottleneck” problem, Advantech has launched the PCIE-1840 analog input card, which can achieve a data acquisition rate of 125 MS/s and a resolution of 16 bits per channel while synchronously collecting data from 4 channels. It can customize FPGA functions according to customer needs, meeting the innovative and high specification application requirements of users in emerging industries in China.

Advantage 2
Meet the lower cost needs of Chinese users
In order for China’s emerging industries to quickly capture the global market, they need to achieve cost optimization, which puts forward lower cost and higher performance requirements for testing and measurement equipment. Taking world leading industries such as new energy vehicles and photovoltaics as examples, in order to win global competitiveness, Chinese users have very strict control over production and manufacturing costs.
After recognizing this market demand, Advantech immediately launched the PCIE-1816 multifunctional card, which can seamlessly replace European and American products in terms of performance and has a lower price, to help Chinese enterprises go global with cost-effective testing and measurement hardware.

Advantage Three
Customized services meet the diverse needs of Chinese users
In rapidly developing pillar industries such as electricity and lithium batteries (transportation, power, energy storage, etc.), Advantech has strong industry characteristics, and standard products cannot provide greater testing efficiency. As a localized manufacturer, Advantech will provide customized services for customer needs, including hardware customization and software debugging. For example, in order to achieve state monitoring of transformers, Advantech has customized an embedded DAQ all-in-one machine with an acquisition speed of 20M per channel and eight channel synchronous acquisition, which integrates acquisition, calculation, and communication; In order to address the industry pain points of expensive instrument prices and excessive features that customers do not need in current market solutions, Advantech has customized a power analysis kit specifically for electric vehicle drive motor testing.
The iDAQ series products are modular DAQ product lines provided by Advantech for new testing and measurement needs, including the iDAQ-900 series chassis and the iDAQ-700 and 800 series.

Advantage Four
Agile development supporting multiple languages and systems
In order to improve efficiency, save development time, and shorten the delivery cycle of customer projects. In terms of software, Advantech provides DAQ Navi drivers that fully support various versions of Labview, and the development method is basically the same as NI’s native DAQMax programming method. All adopt standard architecture, providing Assistant and Polymorphic modes, making hardware exchange very simple and efficient.

At the same time, Advantech’s DAQ product series supports domestic Linux systems, mainstream 32/64 bit Linux, domestic Linux, and provides source code for Python, C/C++, Qt, and JAVA data collection routines; Provide a graphical component for displaying curves. For applications that require integrated control and measurement, Advantech iDAQ provides a seamless connection solution between Labview and Codesys through ADC, achieving efficient and fast data exchange.

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Advantech supports the rapid rise of emerging industries in China
Advantech has been deeply involved in the field of industrial grade data acquisition (DAQ) for many years. From signal conditioning modules, embedded PCI/PCIE cards, portable USB modules, DAQ embedded computers, modular DAQ systems, as well as DAQNavi/SDK software development packages and DAQNavi/MCM equipment status monitoring software, Advantech has a rich product line that has helped industry customers achieve many practical applications, such as machine tool synchronous vibration mode testing, wind turbine status monitoring and fault diagnosis, bridge health monitoring, automotive NVH and noise positioning, track comprehensive performance testing system, semiconductor chip electromagnetic performance testing system, screw machine predictive maintenance system, automotive brake production testing, semiconductor wafer needle testing system, electrical switch arc protection. Performance testing, ultrasonic fault detection of oil pipelines The automotive ECU body controller detection system, among others, has been tested by the market and is contributing to the rapid rise of China’s emerging industries.