Make Booth 236609 in the North Hall a priority. This year, we are focusing on the physical compute foundation required to bring artificial intelligence, advanced control, and real-time data collection directly to the production line.
Onlogic at IMTS 2026
Q&A with | Onlogic
Tell us about your company
OnLogic (www.onlogic.com) designs and manufactures ultra-reliable industrial and rugged computers purpose-built for harsh manufacturing environments and AI applications at the edge. Resistant to dust, vibration, and extreme temperatures, our customizable systems, including fanless and ventless models, power smart factory automation, machine vision, and real-time control, to help boost throughput and eliminate unplanned downtime.
Through modular design and in-region support, we deliver custom-configured hardware without the massive minimum order quantities or rigid supply chains typical of legacy computer manufacturers. We combine technical expertise with a direct, transparent approach so our customers get the exact right-sized solution for their project, every time.
Your company will be exhibiting at IMTS, what is it that makes this an important event for your company?
IMTS is the premier gathering for manufacturing technology, drawing the operational leaders, builders, and engineers who are shaping the future of production. This event is critical for OnLogic because our rugged computing hardware serves as the physical backbone for advanced manufacturing deployments. The show offers an ideal venue to connect directly with teams moving past theoretical software models into physical execution. From machine monitoring and predictive maintenance to localized quality control, IMTS gives us the opportunity to demonstrate how right-sized edge hardware helps make complex industrial automation possible.
What makes your booth a must visit for IMTS Attendees?
Attendees looking to bridge the gap between sophisticated software models and shop-floor reality should make Booth 236609 in the North Hall a priority. This year, we are focusing on the physical compute foundation required to bring artificial intelligence, advanced control, and real-time data collection directly to the production line.
Visitors to our booth can explore live demos running on rugged computing hardware from OnLogic alongside our in-booth partners, who will include (among others):
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Inductive Automation: Open, unlimited SCADA and IIoT software running on rugged hardware for factory-wide data collection and real-time operational tracking.
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CODESYS: Software-based machine control and containerized SoftPLC execution to replace legacy PLC hardware.
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Edge Impulse: Real-time industrial visual inspection and localized machine learning models running right at the edge without cloud latency.
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ZEDEDA: Edge-to-cloud device management to deploy, orchestrate, and secure distributed infrastructure at scale from a single console.
Alongside these live software demonstrations, visitors can get hands-on with our full lineup of industrial hardware, including ultra-compact gateways, panel PCs for HMI, and high-performance edge servers. Our team will also be on site to discuss our modular design approach, showing how low-cost customization and custom engineering capabilities help you get the exact hardware configuration required for your specific deployment without the cost or timeline of a full custom build.
IMTS has many educational sessions, forums & Demos, is your company involved in any of them this year?
We are not participating in formal panel presentations or educational forums this year. Instead, we are dedicating our technical resources to one-on-one consultations directly at Booth 236609. Our engineering and technical sales teams will be on hand throughout the show to provide tailored guidance, helping visitors determine the exact hardware configurations required for their unique manufacturing, robotics, and edge AI implementations.
When you get a chance to walk the exhibit hall floor yourself, what is it you will be most interested to see? Any educational sessions, pavilions etc. you plan on attending?
We are eager to walk the floor and see how machine tool builders and system integrators are integrating multi-modal sensor fusion and real-time inference into traditional manufacturing equipment. Seeing how organizations leverage localized compute to overcome bandwidth and latency hurdles is always inspiring. We also plan to explore the latest developments in cabinet-mounted control systems and decentralized facility infrastructure, as these are environments where ultra-compact, fanless small form factor controllers excel at localized data management.
AI will of course be a huge topic. Be it automation, robotics, how is your company's services and products utilizing AI now to improve business?
We empower our customers to leverage physical AI where it delivers the most value: localized at the edge. Cloud latency, bandwidth expenses, and network reliability issues often stall AI deployments on the factory floor. The hardware portfolio from OnLogic (https://www.onlogic.com/store/) is engineered specifically to handle the heavy computational workload of local AI inferencing. By supporting powerful graphics processing accelerators alongside next-generation CPUs, systems from OnLogic enable real-time quality inspection, automated material handling, and predictive maintenance. We focus on right-sizing hardware so engineering teams can deploy the exact compute power needed without over-provisioning costly components.
Give us your thoughts on what the future holds for robotics & automation.
The future of manufacturing automation will depend on resilient hybrid architectures, long-term component availability, and workload consolidation. As factories transition from rigid, single-purpose machinery to adaptive manufacturing environments, software complexity increases dramatically. Managing this growth requires moving away from sprawling, single-function hardware units. The path forward relies on consolidated edge platforms capable of handling real-time PLC functions, SCADA data collection, and computer vision models simultaneously. As AI becomes a standard operational requirement across industrial sectors, the demand for trusted, long-lifecycle hardware will only accelerate. OnLogic will continue to supply the resilient physical foundation that makes those efficient factory architectures possible.
The content & opinions in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the views of ManufacturingTomorrow
OnLogic
OnLogic is a global industrial computer manufacturer who designs highly-configurable, solution-focused computers engineered for reliability at the IoT edge. Their systems operate in the world's harshest environments, empowering customers to solve their most complex computing challenges, no matter their industry. OnLogic has helped more than 70,000 customers worldwide advance their ideas with computers that are designed to last, built to order and delivered in days.
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