Advantech alternatives

Advantech is filed here at group level for its automation business: a Taipei-headquartered industrial computing and IoT group, listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, with 9,044 employees and offices in about 90 cities across 27 countries. Buyers who start with that computing platform often end up sourcing the physical components around it, and the four companies below cover those layers. Afag Automation brings Swiss depth in electric linear motion, feeding and handling, built over more than 65 years in assembly automation and now operating inside Emerson since its 2023 acquisition, with battery, medical and watchmaking among its stated markets. AirTAC International is the pneumatics specialist of the set: founded in Taiwan in 1988, it runs plants in Tainan, Ningbo and Guangdong, employs about 8,700 people and sells through roughly 100 direct branches in mainland China plus thousands of dealers. Where the gap is sensing rather than motion, ams OSRAM supplies light and sensor components at group scale, with around 18,500 employees, 5,000 of them engineers, and more than 20,000 customers. August Steinmeyer is the narrowest and deepest option: precision ball screws only, all manufactured in Albstadt, Germany, where the company has operated since 1920. Choose by layer: Afag for feeding and handling, AirTAC for pneumatic supply depth in Asia, ams OSRAM for sensing, Steinmeyer for precision linear motion.

Alternatives to Advantech

Afag Automation

Afag Automation is a Swiss specialist in electric linear motion, feeding and handling automation, headquartered in Zell, Switzerland, with more than 65 years in assembly automation and more than 300 employees across Switzerland, Germany, China and the United States at the time of its acquisition.

AirTAC International

AirTAC International Group is a pneumatic components group founded in 1988 in Taiwan and listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange, with manufacturing bases in Taiwan (Tainan) and mainland China (Ningbo and Guangdong) and a sales network of around one hundred direct branches in mainland China plus thousands of dealers across Europe, the Americas and Asia, according to its own site.

ams OSRAM

ams OSRAM is a global light and sensor group headquartered in Premstätten, near Graz in Austria, with a co-headquarters in Munich, Germany, and listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

August Steinmeyer

August Steinmeyer GmbH & Co. KG is a German manufacturer of high-precision ball screws, based in Albstadt, Baden-Württemberg, where all production takes place.

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