Industrial PC is an industrial control computer, which is a general term for tools that use a bus structure to detect and control the production process, electromechanical equipment, and process equipment. Industrial personal computers have important computer attributes and features, such as computer motherboards, CPUs, hard disks, memory, peripherals and interfaces, as well as operating systems, control networks and protocols, computing capabilities, and friendly human-machine interfaces. The products and technologies of the industrial control industry are very special and belong to intermediate products, providing stable, reliable, embedded and intelligent industrial computers for other industries.
The main categories of industrial computer are: IPC, PLC, DCS, FCS, CNC.
IPC is a PC-based industrial computer. Its main components are industrial chassis, passive backplane and various office cards that can be inserted into it, such as CPU, I/O and so on. And adopt the design of all-steel casing, machine card layer filter, double positive pressure fan and EMC technology to solve the electromagnetic interference, vibration, dust, high/low temperature and other problems in the industrial site.
IPC has the following characteristics:
1. Reliability, Industrial PC has dust, smoke, high/low question, humidity, vibration, corrosion and rapid diagnosis and maintainability, its MTTR (Mean time to repair) is generally 5min, MTTF is more than 10,000 hours, while ordinary PC MTTF is only 10000-15000 hours.
2. Practicality, industrial PC conducts real-time online detection and control of industrial production processes, responds quickly to changes in working conditions, collects and adjusts output in time (watchdog function is not available in ordinary PCs), self-reset in distress, guarantees normal operation of the system. Expansion, industrial PC has strong input and output function due to the baseboard + CPU structure, and can expand up to 20 boards, which can be connected with various peripherals and boards in the industrial field, such as road controllers and video surveillance systems. , vehicle detectors, etc., have completed various tasks.
3. Compatibility, can use ISA and PCI and PCIMG resources at the same time, and support various operating systems, multi-language assembly, multi-tasking operating systems.