Vending Machine Controller Manufacturers: future is bright

When you think of vending machines, you usually think of machines stocked with consumer food items or beverages. You pop in a coin and out pops your selection. However, vending machines are also used in an industrial environment to dispense tools and parts with automatic inventory control and replenishment software. Today consumer vending machines or industrial vending machines are equipped with web interface and USB interface, allowing changes, better tracking and replenishment. Vending machines accept coins, notes and even credit cards or tokens. All these features are controlled by a single board or a number of boards for different functions. Vending machine manufacturers usually rely on vending machine controller manufacturers to supply them ready to plug in boards according to their specs.

Capable vending machine controller manufacturers are expected to have in-house expertise in analogue and digital hardware development along with associated software machine control coding, prototype development and testing, PCB, technical documentation and production manufacturing to meet bulk requirements in time. The market is flexible, demanding and growing. Some vending machine controller  manufacturers have a stable market for their coin acceptor boards with or without USB/RS232 port and display and/or bill acceptor interface. It is about doing business in bulk and offering a product that can be fitted in on any machine. There is sophistication too in that controller boards are available in 8 or more channel selection types with LCD display, one or more price vend modes and flexibility in configuration with USB or RS232 port for modifying parameters and an Ethernet port for web access or LAN control. A coin acceptor card may cost as little as $ 16 and a full featured, flexible and configurable board may go above $ 100. For vending machine manufacturers, there is no shortage of options and in the end, it makes life easy for buyers at such machines who are now offered wider choices and goods.