About ABT

ABT, originally incorporated as Advanced Barcode Technology, Inc., designs and manufactures rugged industrial displays, data acquisition modules and custom process control hardware. The company is privately held, was established in 1992, and has moved from early identification systems to industrial automation, embedded process control and legacy instrumentation support.

Industrial and Metco heritage

Our engineering background is in heavy industrial automation and precision process monitoring. ABT was founded by Charles Bibas, who developed hardware and software for barcode readers at Barcode Industries — including the first interface for Federal Express’s barcode scanner application — before being recruited by PerkinElmer Instruments’ Metco Division, where he built patented manufacturing process technologies for General Motors, Toyota, Lexus, Pratt and Whitney and Garrett, among others in the automotive and aircraft industries. He was educated at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, which awarded him a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering.

That history is the direct reason the AT209CE exists, and the reason Metco has bought the display from ABT since the 1990s rather than sourcing it elsewhere. It is also why the same unit will drop into equipment whose original builder no longer supports it.

Modern process control and data acquisition

Today ABT builds hardware that solves integration and monitoring problems on the plant floor:

• AT209CE industrial display. The 20-character message display supplied to Metco as the 9MC, and backward compatible with other legacy 20-character units, so interface visibility is restored without a PLC retrofit.
• ADS16 16-channel ADC. High-density 16-bit analog data acquisition with dual I2C ports, on-board signal conditioning and direct thermistor support.
• I2CBUS-08 relay board. Clean, optically isolated actuation for embedded microcontrollers, PLCs and automated test fixtures.