Industrial Personal Computer (IPC) that is, industrial control computers, is a bus structure, the production process and electromechanical equipment, process equipment for detection and control of the tool in general. The difference with the ordinary computer is the industrial control industry products and technology is very special, belong to the intermediate products, is for all other industries to provide reliable, embedded, intelligent industrial computer.
Industrial control machine has important computer attributes and features, such as a computer CPU, hard disk, memory, peripherals and interfaces, and operating systems, control networks and protocols, computing power, friendly human-machine interface. Industrial sites generally have a strong vibration, dust is particularly high, another very high electromagnetic field force interference and other characteristics, and the general factory is a continuous operation that is generally no rest during the year.
Industrial control software system mainly includes system software, industrial control application software and application software development environment and other three major parts. The system software is the core of the foundation of the other two, thus affecting the development quality of the system software design. Industrial application software is mainly generated according to the user's industrial control and management needs, and therefore has the specialization.
From the basic composition of industrial control software It can be roughly divided into three layers; real-time operating system layer, crutch system management layer and application layer, real-time operating system OS layer is the basis of other layers.
IPC has been widely used in all aspects of industry and people's lives.
For example: control site, road and bridge control and toll systems, medical instruments, environmental protection monitoring, communications security, intelligent traffic control systems, building monitoring and security, voice call centers, queuing machines, POS counters cash registers, numerical control machines, gasoline dispensers, financial information processing, petrochemical data acquisition and processing, physical prospecting, field portable operations, environmental protection, military, electric power, railroads, highways, Aerospace, subway, intelligent buildings, outdoor advertising, and so on.