The trend of industrial IoT has changed the face of traditional production lines and led to the birth of a new generation of smart factories, allowing automation technology represented by motion control to be extensively applied. Future motion control will become faster, more precise, and network-based, and can be divided into two areas: industry-based equipment applications and a network of edge computing devices combined with cloud service platforms. This will further be integrated with information technology to achieve the vision of smart manufacturing.

Advantech's complete EtherCAT motion control solution includes the EtherCAT main station controller card in the industrial computer has a large number of flexible industry-specific APIs; the integrated MAS controller comes with Advantech's Motion Studio software, highly integrated with a simple Basic programming environment to satisfy customers' demand on rapid development; the PAC can integrate control, data processing, and network connection on a single control platform, and provides CODESYS that supports the IEC 61131-3 PLC programming language standard, satisfying the multi-purpose and high expansion requirements of automation applications.