ASRock Industrial and Barbara, a pioneer in cyber secure Edge AI Platform, are coming together to deliver advanced, secure, and cost-efficient Edge computing solutions for the industry. This strategic collaboration combines ASRock Industrial’s reliable, high-performance industrial computing systems with Barbara’s secure Edge AI platform software, enabling remote orchestration, application lifecycle management, and embedded zero-trust security to support scalable, software-defined automation at the Edge for Industry 4.0 environments.
Through this partnership, manufacturing companies will gain access to powerful Edge computing solutions that deliver:
- Enhanced cybersecurity: ASRock Industrial’s Edge computing platforms come pre-integrated with Barbara’s software, compliant with IEC-62443 standards, ensuring robust protection for critical infrastructure
- Improved operational efficiency: enables automated remote orchestration and IEC-61499 runtimes across Edge nodes to support open automation, with high availability and zero downtime
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): minimises integration complexity, streamlines maintenance, and extends system lifecycles in large-scale Edge device deployments
- Scalability and resilience: built for distributed industrial environments, the solution offers scalable device management and a future-proof architecture that allows new applications or AI models to be deployed to edge devices remotely
Together, the companies are working towards a new era of autonomous, secure, and massively scalable edge infrastructure, where processing moves closer to machines, operations become dynamically managed, and end users gain the agility to adapt in real time. Built for industrial 4.0 and beyond, the joint solution empowers industrial environments with centralised control, resilient design, and end-to-end protection for distributed assets.
“Industrial computing is entering a new chapter, and this partnership with Barbara puts us at the forefront,” said James Lee, Chairman of ASRock Industrial. “Together, we’re delivering the foundation for autonomous, secure, and software-defined factories, built to scale with the future of Industry 4.0.”
“This strategic collaboration allows us to transform Industrial PCs and Gateways into powerful Edge AI computing machines where intelligent processes can be remotely deployed and concurrently executed in a cybersecure framework,” added Peter Rawlins, VP Business Development, Barbara.
