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Overview

Automation is evolving across both production floors and process environments, where real-time intelligence, edge AI, and flexible system integration are driving greater efficiency and scalability. From factory automation with machine vision and robotics, to process automation with AI agents and open control frameworks, our Robust Edge AIoT Platforms enable data-driven decisions, predictive maintenance, and autonomous control in complex industrial workflows.

Supports scalable and open integration
Supports scalable and open integration
Maximizes equipment ROI
Maximizes equipment ROI
Improves production efficiency
Improves production efficiency
Reduces downtime and maintenance cost
Reduces downtime and maintenance cost

Solutions

Smart Industrial Automation

Accelerate smart manufacturing with our Robust Edge AI computing solutions designed for machine vision, robotics, and factory control. Supporting real-time data processing, sensor integration, and industrial protocols, these platforms enable precision automation across production lines, packaging, and inspection systems. With fanless design, reliability and wide-temperature tolerance, they ensure consistent performance in harsh factory environments.

Open Process Automation

Open process automation optimizes complex manufacturing workflows with our Robust Edge AIoT platforms designed for distributed control, real-time diagnostics, and predictive decision-making. Supporting IEC 61499 standard and aligned with Open Process Automation Standard (O-PAS), these solutions enable modular, vendor-neutral system architecture for higher flexibility. With integrated AI agents and edge inference, they help reduce downtime, enhance process consistency, and future-proof automation across industries such as energy, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals.

Case Study

GR3N Pilots the World’s First Modular Depolymerization Plants for Smart, Scalable Industry

A sustainability-driven innovator in plastic recycling, GR3N implemented a modular, scalable, and vendor-neutral control system to support its microwave assisted deploymerization process, enabling infinite PET recycling with high purity polymer recovery. The solution enables scalable production by integrating UAO IEC 61499 runtime with ASRock Industrial’s iEP-5000G and iEPF-9000S platforms, delivering flexible and open edge control. By aligning modular plant automation with process design, GR3N lowers engineering costs, improves total cost of ownership (TCO), strengthens IP protection, enables data-driven optimization, and seamlessly integrates OT and IT systems.

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J&W Elevates Smart Logistics Center with ASRock Industrial’s iEP-5000G and UniversalAutomation.org (UAO) runtime

In a joint effort to modernize warehouse operations, J&W partnered with ASRock Industrial to deploy an intelligent hybrid automation system that integrates a human-cobot system with a modular conveyor loop, vision-based control gates, and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Powered by ASRock Industrial’s iEP-5000G industrial edge controller running IEC 61499, the system enables seamless coordination across control systems, robots, and IT platforms, bringing real-time responsiveness, efficiency, and scalability for e-commerce logistics center’s workflows.

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Transforming Semiconductor IC Substrate Inspection with AI, Powered by PEGATRON and ASRock Industrial

A global leader in semiconductor packaging, specializing in IC substrate manufacturing, deployed an advanced AI AOI system for second-stage inspection to streamline its post-AVI (Automated Visual Inspection) process. The solution integrates PEGATRON’s PEGAAi, an end-to-end AI platform, with ASRock Industrial’s iEPF-9030S Robust Edge AIoT Platform. By leveraging edge AI capabilities, the solution performs automatic anomaly detection, significantly reducing manual re-inspection workload, improving inspection efficiency, and enhancing yield stability. The deployment highlights the powerful synergy of smart AI software and rugged, high-performance hardware, accelerating smart manufacturing in the semiconductor industry.

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Elementary Empowers Lightweight AI Vision Inspection with ASRock Industrial iEP-7020E Performance

Elementary, a leader in AI-powered machine vision, adopted ASRock Industrial’s iEP-7020E Series to power a compact AI vision inspection system for simpler applications, enabling real-time anomaly detection with up to two cameras. The new solution reduced system footprint by over 75% and lowered total cost, while maintaining low-latency performance and improving deployment speed, energy efficiency, and reliability.

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OPA System with ASRock Industrial’s DCN for Open Automation

Open Process Automation (OPA) is revolutionizing industrial automation by offering unmatched flexibility, security, and efficiency while redefining industry standards. ASRock Industrial is spearheading this transformation, driving innovation with Distributed Control Nodes (DCNs) that eliminate vendor lock-in, enhance system interoperability, and ensure future-proof automation. By embracing an open, software-defined approach, ASRock Industrial’s DCNs has been integrated into the OPA system of a global leading energy company, setting new benchmarks in industrial automation, and enabling long-term scalability and operational efficiency.

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SmartRay Achieves Reliable Automotive Weld Inspection with ASRock Industrial's iEP-7020E Series

SmartRay integrated ASRock Industrial’s iEP-7020E Series Industrial IoT Controller into its JOSY 3D Visual weld inspection system to deliver precise, real-time, and fully automated weld quality control of automotive production. The collaboration enhances manufacturing efficiency by ensuring 100% inline inspection, reducing rework, and supporting data-driven process optimization.

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AI-Powered Precision Redefining Packing Operations

Manual packing is slow, error-prone, and expensive, leading to losses across industries like food production, electronics, medical biotech, and automotive due to mislabeling, workflow bottlenecks, and labor-intensive packing processes. Companies that fail to adapt to smarter, AI-driven automation are at risk of falling behind. In response, ASRock Industrial and Solomon joined forces to introduce the AI Packing Solution – a next-generation smart packaging system that integrates ASRock Industrial’s iEP-6010E Series with NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX SOM and Solomon’s META-aivi AR + AI vision system. This collaboration doesn’t just improve packing workflows, it redefines them with precision, intelligence and automation.

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Achieving Smart Factory Operational Excellence with AI Agents

The manufacturing industry is evolving at an unprecedented pace, demanding real-time intelligence, predictive capabilities, and adaptive decision-making. ASRock Industrial and Aimirim have partnered to implement IEC 61499-powered smart and open process for a global tobacco company, incorporating AI agent solutions that offer real-time suggestions and troubleshooting. By combing ASRock Industrial’s iEP-6010E edge AI device with Aimirim’s Shaman, this solution brings real-time AI agent to factory operations such as quality control, production, and maintenance, empowering operators with instant, intelligent recommendations to resolve production inefficiencies.

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Smarter and More Flexible Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) Reduces Labor Cost and Enhances Productivity

Smart manufacturing and distribution facilities are already being built, calling for the more intelligent Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) over its ancestor- automated guided vehicle (AGV). A leading IPC company accelerates the development of smart Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) powered by ASRock Industrial's iBOX-1185G7E to reduce labor costs and increase productivity. The AMR will become prevalent in several vertical markets such as logistics, automotive, medical, and agriculture.

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AOI System through Workload Consolidation Brings 100X Data Transmission Enhancement for Increased Product Inspection Efficiency with Smaller System Equipment Footprint

One leading DMS company used the iEPF-9010S Series through workload consolidation approach for phenomenal upgrades in its AOI system. One iEPF-9010S can process all AOI tasks for product quality inspection, replacing the traditional setting of using at least two IPC systems and improving overall images data transmission performance. The results show improved data transfer rate up to one hundred times for increased product inspection efficiency with fewer devices to manage, thus smaller system equipment footprint and lower system integration complexity.

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Machine Vision to Improve Automated Inspection and Yield Rate in Manufacturing

A world-leading Design and Manufacturing Service (DMS) Company to create smart manufacturing by using robotic arms and machine vision in production lines has resulted in higher efficiency and product quality outputs.

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