Industrial Computer

Many of the environments that an industrial computers has to work in are surely not appropriate for a conventional desktop PC. Many areas in assembly and manufacturing contain many of the things that will finish off a responsive piece of electronics like a PC instantly; dust, grime, grease, water, fluids, extreme temperatures not to mention the odd knock from a pallet truck or forklift.

However while industrial machines are designed and built to cope with approximately anything they are very expensive and undergo from a lack of higher performance and technology that a conventional PC offers.

Many industrial computers are complete solid state meaning components have to be small and compact. Moreover, industrial computers are usually preserved machines, their design optimised for safety which means components need to be trustworthy as a breakdown will result in a service engineer being called and the inevitable delays in production this can cause.