Monday 23 April 2012

AAEON Technology GmbH - Overview

Single Board Computer, IPC, Industrial Motherboard, Embedded System, Industrial Computer, Embedded Computer, Embedded Motherboard, COM Express, Computer on Module, Industrial HMI Touch Panel PC, Digital Signage Panel PC, 3.5


Reliability: Delivering trustworthy products to our customers.
Integrity: Providing a Values-based business relationship focusing on the success of your product.
Innovation: Turning cutting-edge concepts into reality.

AAEON Technology, established in 1992, manufactures and markets a wide range of Industrial PCs all over the world. AAEON’s commitment to its customers is to provide reliable and high quality Embedded SBCs --5.25" CPU Boards, 3.5” CPU Boards, EPIC Boards, RISC Boards, Computer On Modules, PC/104 Modules, PC/104 Peripheral Modules, PICMG 1.3 SBCs, PICMG 1.0 SBCs and System Products including Operator Panels, Robust Panel PCs, Medical PCs, Embedded Chassis EmBOX, Industrial Chassis, Industrial Servers, Firewall products and related accessories.

AAEON has well established, strategically positioned branch offices across the U.S., Europe, Mainland China and Singapore. Our Global Distribution Channel includes the world’s top Distributors, making our products available to our customers through their established business relationships. Through these channels, AAEON is able to provide prompt, direct service and solutions to its worldwide customers. By maintaining ISO-9001 and ISO-14001 certifications since 1994 and 1996 respectively, AAEON ensures its commitment to delivering products of the highest quality.

Becoming a publicly traded company in 2001, AAEON has demonstrated the sound fiscal policies required for good investment opportunities. AAEON continues to earn numerous citations for its remarkable industry contributions, including six years of Symbol of Excellence Awards and the country's Eighth Annual Outstanding Business Award. AAEON introduced TL9000 certification in 2003 and ISO 13485 in 2007 to further expand its commitment to quality.
AAEON is a firm believer in energy-savings and in environmentally conscious manufacturing. Many of AAEON’s products are Energy Star certified and AAEON continues to incorporate more green products into our product portfolio.


Milestones

2011AAEON awarded the 19th Taiwan Excellence Achievement Award.
AAEON awarded Siemens Star Supplier 2011 Award.
AAEON awarded the Computex Taipei 2011 Best of Choice Award.
AAEON joins ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (ASUS)

2010AAEON awarded the 18th Taiwan Symbol of Excellence Award.
AAEON awarded the 2009 Growth in Intel® Atom™ Co-Selling Award.

2009AAEON awarded the Taiwan Superior Brand Award.
AAEON awarded the 17th Taiwan Symbol of Excellence Award.
AAEON awarded the 17th MOEA's Joint Award.
AAEON awarded 2008 Intel® Marketing Development Funds Award of Excellence

2008AAEON awarded the 8th Industrial Sustainable Excellence Award.
AAEON establishes a Germany Sales Office in Frankfurt, Germany.
AAEON awarded the 16th Taiwan Symbol of Excellence Award.
AAEON awarded the INFO TECH 100 TAIWAN award.
AAEON awarded 2007 Intel® Marketing Development Funds Award of Excellence
AAEON awarded 2007 Intel® Greatest Co-selling Growth Award of Excellence

2007AAEON attains ISO 13485 Medical certification.
AAEON awarded the 15th Taiwan Symbol of Excellence Award.

2006AAEON awarded the 14th Taiwan Symbol of Excellence Award.

2005AAEON awarded the Computex Taipei Best of Choice Award.
AAEON establishes a U.S. West Coast Sales Office in Brea, California.
AAEON moves Europe branch to the Netherlands.

2004 AAEON Technology (Su Zhou) factory attains 3C and ISO-9001 certification.
AAEON sets up Singapore office. 

2003 AAEON becomes an Associate member of Intel® ICA program. 

2002 AAEON attains TL9000 certification.
AAEON becomes a member of Intel ACPP Program. 

2001 AAEON Technology (Su Zhou) Inc. is established.
AAEON becomes a public limited company on Taiwan Stock Exchange.
AAEON sets up Europe office in Limburg, Germany. 

2000 AAEON acquires Astech Technology, Inc. which becomes the Panel PC Division. 

1999 AAEON is listed as an OTC (Over-The-Counter) stock company.
AAEON Foundation is established for the purpose of expansion in the aspects of humanity and technology. 

1998 AAEON sets up Sales Offices in Europe and China. 

1997 AAEON-USA, premier offshore branch office established in Hazlet, New Jersey 
AAEON attains ISO-14001 certification. 

1994 AAEON attains ISO-9001 certification. 

1992 AAEON is established. 





Core Competence  

Product Innovation
AAEON's integration expertise has resulted in product designs that have the most desirable built-in features, saving customers valuable design and customization time. AAEON’s superior OEM/ODM capabilities help customers meet exact specifications and requirements. AAEON has invested aggressively in R&D capabilities and will continue to do so to maintain a leading edge advantage for new designs. In cooperation with premier technology vendors, AAEON participates in vendor early access programs to provide the latest technology to our customers. 
 
Market Focus
AAEON has established a reputation worldwide for exceptional domain know-how. This expertise in market requirements has allowed AAEON to secure a solid position in Machine and Factory Automation and the Chemical Industry. Cutting edge products are available to meet the specific needs such as Medical, Finance, Education, Transportation, Digital Signage, POS System, Information KIOSK, Networking, etc.



R&D Strength
AAEON takes great pride in our World Class Research and Development aptitudes. With more than 20% of AAEON employees in R&D and 10% of annual sales revenue invested in research, AAEON is prepared to handle the most demanding designs based on the latest technologies.
With an Engineering staff that out-numbers the Sales staff 2 to 1, a sharp focus is placed on new technology. The innovative nature of this experienced staff has allowed AAEON to receive many design patents worldwide.

Design Capability
From our origins with the core competence of single board computer design, AAEON has expanded its capabilities to award winning Panel PC System Design, BIOS Engineering with multi-vendor expertise, Mechanical Design, Peripheral Device Design, Design Verification and in-house EMI/EMC Debugging.

Manufacturing Capability
AAEON has manufacturing facilities located in Taipei, Taiwan and Su Zhou, China. To become the leading supplier of Industrial Computers, AAEON has created manufacturing facilities with flexible layout and expansion capabilities to easily address the demand for increased production capacity. Drawing upon the skills of its professional and experienced personnel to develop an efficient production system, AAEON has the ability to respond rapidly to customer requests for standard or customized IPC products.







Quality Assurance 
AAEON's Quality Assurance Closed Loop Feedback System provides solid 
and consistent feedback through the design, manufacturing and service stages 
to ensure continuous progress and quality improvement to meet customer 
expectations. These stages are: Design Quality Assurance (DQA), Manufacturing 
Quality Assurance (MQA) and Service Quality Assurance (SQA). 

DQA - Design Quality Assurance starts at the conceptual stage of a project and 
covers the product development stage to ensure quality is designed in by highly 
qualified engineers. AAEON's safety and environmental test labs ensure our 
products meet the requirements of CE/UL/FCC/CCC standards. All AAEON 
products go through an extensive and comprehensive test plan for compatibility, 
function, performance and usability. Therefore, our customers can always expect 
to receive well-designed, high quality products.

MQA - Manufacturing Quality Assurance is carried out in accordance with TL9000 
(ISO-9001), ISO13485 & ISO-14001 certification standards. All AAEON products 
are built using production and quality testing equipment in a static-free environment.
Additionally, these products have gone through rigorous tests in the production line 
and dynamic aging in the burn-in room. AAEON's Total Quality Control (TQC) 
program includes: Incoming Quality Control (IQC), In-Process Quality Control 
(IPQC) and Final Quality Control (FQC). Periodic training, auditing and facility 
calibration are strictly implemented to ensure all quality standards are followed 
to the letter. QC constantly feeds quality-related issues to R&D for improving 
product performance and compatibility.

SQA - Service Quality Assurance includes technical support and repair service. 
These are important windows to serve AAEON's customer needs, receive their 
feedback and work with R&D and manufacturing to strengthen AAEON's response 
time in resolving customer concerns and improving service levels.

Technical Support - The backbone of customer support is a team of professional 
Application Engineers who provide customers with real-time technical support. 
Their expertise is shared through internal knowledge management and links to 
the web site for online non-stop service and solutions.

Repair Service - With an efficient eRMA system and RMA service policy, AAEON's 
RMA team is able to ensure prompt, high quality product repair and replacement 
service with short turnaround time.

Quality Certification - AAEON has acquired many official certifications to maintain 
our quality system.

ISO 9001: QMS Standards, 2008.
ISO 13485: QMS Standards, 2003.
ISO 14001: EMS Standards, 2004.
3C: China Compulsory Certification.
CE and FCC: All AAEON products undergo and meet CE and FCC test 

standards which prove their design quality and integrity.





Product Business Units 
ECD: Embedded Computing Division (ECD) consists of board-level product 
lines: 5.25' EBX CPU Boards, 3.5”ECX CPU Boards, EPIC Boards, Industrial 
Motherboards, Computer On Module (COM Express/ ETX/ XTX/ Q7), PC/104 CPU 
Modules, RISC CPU Modules, Mini PCI Modules, Mini Card Modules and PC/104 
Peripheral Modules.
In addition to the board-level products, ECD includes an Embedded Box (EmBOX) 
solution that provides OEM/ODM and one-stop shopping services to minimize the 
customer's effort in sourcing components, designing chassis, etc.
Moreover, most of the board-level product lines have wide temperature series 
products. These products comply with two wide temperature ranges: -20C to 70C, 
and -40C to 80C. The PC/104 Peripheral Modules are palm-sized and the add-on 
boards with PC/104, PC/104+ or PCI-104 connectors perform as function expansion 
for embedded applications. 

PAA: Panel Appliance & Automation Division (PAA) refers to system-level 
product lines, such as Multi-Touch/ HMI Touch/ Rugged Touch/ IP-67 Panel PC 
series, Remote/ Cloud/ Industrial Touch Display series and Embedded Box PCs.
The IP-67 certified FOX Series offers dust and water-proof solutions to many 
versatile applications. The ACD series is the top industrial-grade Cloud technology. 
The Multi-Touch ACP Series offers the IPX1 back chassis as well as 7H hardness. 
Its non-gap design makes the PC easy to clean. PAA has the complete Embedded 
Box PC series—BOXER. The AEC represents BOXER S/G/LITE series that are 
fanless and robust solutions for transportation, home automation, factory 
automation and machine automation.


ISD: Industrial System Division (ISD) includes the PICMG 1.3 and PICMG 1.0 
Single Board Computers and Backplanes, ISA/PCI/PCISA SBCs, Industrial 
Motherboards, Industrial Chassis, Embedded Box PCs, Energy Conservation 
Servers, Network Appliances and Digital Signage.
The PICMG 1.3 and PICMG 1.0 SBCs demonstrate strong and reliable performance. 
The Half-Size SBCs offer ISA, PCISA and PCI interfaces. The Green Energy 
Systems showcase environmentally-friendly products in a smart grid and electricity 
management integrated system solutions.

RTC: Rugged Tablet Computer Division (RTC) is AAEON's newest product line 
offering. It is ML-STD-810F standard compliant and meets IP-65 and IP-54 ratings. 
Built from the ground up to withstand water, dust, drops, vibration, shock as well as 
extreme temperatures found in a variety of harsh conditions, the RTC product line 
will go wherever the job takes you. Encased in magnesium alloy, the RTC series 
offers secure and reliable mobile computing whether vehicle mounted or hand 
carried in the field.
 

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