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Industrial Computers Portal: Products, News, Articles & Resources
Industrial Computers Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Industrial Computers with valuable information for controls and automation engineers. Open architecture industrial computers have become a prime component in automation systems from blind PC nodes, to multiprocessor systems. Industrial computer options can be used to provide high reliability with features including redundant mirrored hard drives, long-life power supplies and high grade cooling fans. Get the latest information on Industrial Computers sent to your desktop as soon as they are published on this page.
Articles
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How to choose a CANbus industrial controller
- 03/13/10 Control Engineering, March 2010 By Ulrich Luetke Entrup, Janz Automation Systems Initial price for an industrial PC is higher than a consumer equivalent, but long-term cost is lower for industrial control applications. Here’s why. |
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From Consumer Electronics to your HMI
- 03/13/10 Control Engineering, March 2010 By Renee Robbins Machine builders, HMI designers and industrial PC users take note: Smart phones and other consumer electronics are changing the way operators expect to interact with machines — and how you will create interfaces. |
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PCs: Cost-effective, high-performance motion control platforms
- 02/26/10 Industrial Embedded Systems, February 2010 By Kim Hartman, TenAsys The title is correct, but isn't referring to the basic Windows-based PC that we all know. Instead, a virtualized environment with real-time deterministic capability can turn a PC into a motion control platform. |
White Papers
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Why Can’t We Be Friends?
By Stanley Liu, Moxa This white paper explores how selecting the correct solution allows existing IT departments to easily deploy and monitor the full range of available industrial automation devices for server room monitoring, without complicated integration obstacles or additional training requirements. |
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Sample Code for Embedded Applications
By Dr. CF Lin, Moxa Software developers should always be on the lookout for ways to ensure that products are developed quickly, but at the same time are also reliable and cost-effective. A simple yet very effective way of doing this is to rely on sample code when getting started with a project. |
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Using Embedded Computers to Manage Your Solar Power System
By Ella Liao, Moxa Computers play an essential role in solar power systems, particularly when it comes to maximizing energy efficiency. Here are three examples. |
Application Stories
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Distillery selects PC system for hazardous areas
- 02/19/10 HazardEX, February 2010 An ATEX-certified PC system from R.Stahl is now in use at Aberdeenshire based Ardmore Distillery. The fully automated control system allows the operators to control all aspects of the distilling process from one central location right next to the spirit safes in the heart of the still-house. |
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Panasonic uses National Instruments to test Toughbook laptop PCBs
- 11/22/09 Panasonic uses NI PXI hardware with LabVIEW to create a streamlined automated test system that has decreased the cost of system development and maintenance. |
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Panel PCs handle extreme heavy lifting
- 11/11/09 Control Engineering, November 2009 By Renee Robbins Integrated Beckhoff control system helps Wheelift automated guided vehicles move turbine generators, transformers, and other massive payloads. |
Resources & Literature
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Poll Question - How many different networks do you have in your facility?
How many different communication networks do you have implemented in factories and/or plants? The list of available networks includes, but is not limited to: Foundation Fieldbus, ControlNet, PROFIBUS, Interbus, AS-Interface, CanOpen, CC-Link, PROFINET, HART, Ethernet, EtherCAT, Ethernet Powerlink, SERCOS, Modbus, LonWorks and DeviceNet. |
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Free NI Measurement and Automation Catalog
The National Instruments catalog is the leading virtual instrumentation resource for engineers and scientists seeking the most productive customer-defined software and hardware tools. |
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AutomationDirect Industrial Automation Product Reference Catalog
Desk Reference contains detailed product descriptions complemented by plenty of technical illustrations, step-by-step procedures for selecting various PLC hardware and software, PC-based control, operator interface, motor contactors, drives, sensing equipment, connection systems, and much more. |
Training & Seminars
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Windows Embedded CE online training
- 08/19/09
Free, self-paced technical training on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 is available online on Microsoft’s Website |
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Adeneo Embedded announces Windows Embedded CE training
- 07/14/09
4-day in-depth technical training sessions on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 include hands-on labs and an ARM-based development kit offered to each attendee. Price: $2500. |
Featured Products
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Nematron takes the fan out of ePC PCs
- 03/17/10
Fanless, diskless ePC has an Intel ATOM N270 1.6 GHz processor to provide enough processing power to run the most complex HMI and SCADA applications. |
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Avalue introduces ESM-GM45 Computer-on-Module
- 03/17/10
ESM-GM45 Computer-on-Module has an Intel Core 2 Duo or Celeron M CPU, and supports Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows XPe, Windows CE as well as Linux. |
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GE speeds up A10200 single board computer
- 03/16/10
The A10200 is available with the Intel Xeon processor 5600, with up to six cores and 12 Mbytes of L3 cache for each CPU, enabling a processing performance improvement of up to 50%. |
Company & Organization News
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Advantech acquires DLoG GmbH
- 03/10/10 Advantech acquired DLoG GmbH from Augusta Technologie for €12.85 million. |
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ARC says prices are coming down on automation products
- 03/07/10 One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors. |
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ISA selects Automation.com as advertising sales partner
In addition to daily and weekly digital and online content, ISA will publish 6 print issues of InTech magazine in 2010. ISA selected Automation.com as the advertising sales representative for InTech magazine’s print, digital, and online editions. |
Project News
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GE Fanuc supplies computers to KSG power plant simulator
- 09/15/09 The $1.1 million order from KSG Kraftwerks-Simulator-Gesellschaft MBH of Essen, Germany, includes CPU blades, I/O controllers, associated software and support. |
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GE Fanuc computer to fly on Airbus
- 04/28/09 The CL11 single board computer will be deployed as part of the Cabin Electronics system onboard Airbus aircraft. |
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GE to reduce energy and water usage at its data center
- 02/02/09 GE is updating the data center with 30 products from nine different GE businesses, including power quality, chilled water, electrical, security and IT services equipment. |
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