Barbara and ASRock Industrial Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Edge Computing for Industrial Infrastructure

‍Madrid, Spain  (August 25, 2025) – Barbara the leading Cybersecure Edge AI plaftorm and ASRock Industrial, a global leader in industrial computing, are joining forces to deliver advanced, secure, and cost-efficient edge computing solutions for 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.

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Through this collaboration, 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): Minimizes 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 ushering in 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 centralized control, resilient design, and end-to-end protection for distributed assets.

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“Industrial computing is entering a new chapter, and this partnership with Barbara puts us at the forefront,” stated 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.”

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"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", said Peter Rawlins, VP Business Development at Barbara.

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About ASRock Industrial

ASRock Industrial Computer Corporation, established as an independent entity in July 2018, is a prominent industry player specializing in the development of motherboards, edge computers, and related solutions for the manufacturing, business, and retail sectors. As the world-leading provider of Industrial PC systems and motherboards, our customers base spans the globe. Previously, it had been a business unit of ASRock Inc. (est. 2002) which was set up in 2011. ASRock Industrial now operates autonomously, allowing us to devote all resources to delivering exceptional B2B solutions.

Our vision is to cocreate an intelligent world, aligning with ASRock Industrial’s core dedication to CARES (Commerce/Automation/Robot/Entertainment/Security) industries. With a central R&D design team comprising nearly 58% of our total staff, ASRock Industrial has the resources and expertise to develop cutting-edge, reliable products tailored to meet your business requirements. Our product portfolio encompasses both off-the-shelf offerings and customized solutions catered to the specific needs of OEMs/ODMs.

Press Contact:

Doris Liu

ASRock Industrial Computer

Product Marketing Dept.

E-mail: ASRI_Marketing@asrockind.com

TEL: +886-2-5588-2688

About Barbara

Barbara is the leading Edge AI-native platform for industrial companies to deploy, orchestrate, and manage applications and AI models directly at the edge—enabling real-time, autonomous, and secure operations across distributed environments. By bringing intelligence to the thin edge, Barbara overcomes the limitations of cloud architectures—reducing latency, improving scalability, and cutting costs—while enabling use cases like predictive analytics, computer vision, and intelligent automation.

Trusted by leaders in Energy, Utilities, Oil & Gas, and Manufacturing, Barbara powers containerized AI applications across hundreds of thousands of remote, cybersecurity-sensitive locations such as substations, plants, refineries, and pipelines. With full MLOps support and a marketplace of certified edge apps, Barbara offers a scalable, end-to-end solution to unlock industrial AI at scale. Visit us: www.barbara.tech

Press Contact

Miren Zabaleta - Head of Global Marketing

Barbara

E-mail: marketing@barbara.tech

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