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News Release from: Advantech (UK)
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
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CTO to make sure new technologies are
applied
Advantech has appointed Jeff Chen as Chief Technology Officer to help the company develop new products and make sure it adopts the latest technologies.
Advantech, demonstrates its commitment to be a leading technology provider by the new appointment of Jeff Chen as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Jeff Chen will help Advantech develop new products using the latest technologies
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 25 Jan 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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This new assignment will ensure Advantech "leads from the front." Technology leader in the field - Chen has worked at Advantech for over 12 years in technology research and development, and worked closely with leading industrial vendors like Intel and Microsoft to make sure Advantech products adopt the latest technology.
Chen's new mission is to: Identify and maintain awareness of technologies, which are pertinent to company product strategy and that potentially, will be developed by one of Advantech's product divisions.
Chen explained, "In the past, customers came to Advantech to help with their particular solution requirements.
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Advantech focused on providing platforms and technology customers requested.
In my role as CTO I will proactively develop and further broaden Advantech's core "function block" technologies such as COM, and SoC, and identify new technologies such as PCI Express and AdvancedTCA, which will enable Advantech to lead the field in complete technology solutions and services for ePlatform." Full common engineering service provides single contact - the new CTO aims to give customers better "total" solutions by streamlining all of Advantech's internal cross product division processes.
By leveraging cross product division common engineering expertise, customized design and build services, and technology sharing, customers can take advantage of Advantech's wide knowledge pool and common "know how" from all ePlatform product divisions.
A key strategy will be to advance, and further develop Advantech's intellectual property-based products, or "IP library." New technologies as well as existing and future technologies will allow customers to quickly build their solutions by choosing from an intellectual property-based library of building block technologies, thereby responding to the market quicker.
Additionally, by tightly coupling R and D with Product Life Cycle Management, customers can access the information they are increasingly demanding.
Chen will also play a proactive role in various technical committees to ensure Advantech will be an active and influential member of industry standard setting organizations, this will ensure that product divisions continue creating leading products which adopt the newest standards.
"By harnessing all of our resources and promoting strategic collaboration between our product divisions and our technology partners, all of our customers will benefit," said Chen.
Advantech in brief - Advantech Co (Taidex: 2395) is the global leading ePlatform service provider integrating web-based technology, computing platforms and customization services that empower the connected eWorld.
Advantech cooperates closely with system integrators to help them add value to their solutions to meet demanding requirements in a wide array of industries.
Advantech delivers more than a thousand products and solutions under 3 main categories: Embedded and Applied Computing, Network Appliance, and eAutomation.
With the combined talent of more than 2,000 people, Advantech operates an extensive support, sales, and marketing network in 16 countries and 28 major cities to deliver fast time-to-market services to our worldwide customers. Request free introductory details about products from Advantech (UK) ...
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