Different uses:
Industrial control computer referred to as industrial control machine, the English abbreviation of this IPC, industrial PC applications in the field of industrial production;
Ordinary computers referred to as PC, ordinary personal or commercial applications. Although they are computers, there are roughly the same basic configuration, such as motherboards, CPU, memory, a variety of peripherals, serial and parallel ports, etc., but because of the different applications, their technical requirements are not the same. Ordinary home or office computers are civil grade, while the industrial control machine is industrial grade, it is in the structure of other aspects of the special requirements.
Different appearance:
From the outside, most of the ordinary computer is open, the performance of more cooling holes, only a power supply fan to the outside of the chassis blowing since the cooling. The industrial control machine chassis is fully enclosed, the weight is much heavier than ordinary computer chassis, indicating that it uses a thicker plate is thicker because more solid, there is not only a power supply with a fan, there is also a fan used to keep the chassis strong positive pressure of the wind is greater inside the blowing fan. This external structure protects against dust, and also shields against electromagnetic interference.
Different configurations:
Ordinary computers generally only have a motherboard, above the CPU slot, memory slot and other standard configuration parts, others such as discrete graphics cards, etc. are inserted in the expansion slot on the motherboard, and now more than PCI slots, industrial control machine is different, it has a larger motherboard, also known as the passive backplane, the board does not have a lot of integrated circuits, only more expansion slots, with the CPU motherboard to the motherboard. This board does not have many integrated circuits, only more expansion slots, the motherboard with the CPU to be inserted in this motherboard in a special slot, other expansion boards should also be inserted in the motherboard, rather than the motherboard. The advantage of this is that with the motherboard can better screen off the outside world interference, because industrial control machine work occasions are sometimes more harsh, interference is more, so you can make the main analysis of the more reliable work, while the large motherboard more also easier to expand other plug-ins. So that designers can have more choices when developing the system, without having to consider whether there is space to put down.
Power supply is different:
From the power supply, the regular industrial computer power supply and ordinary power supply is not the same, it is used inside the resistance and capacitance and coils and other anti-shock anti-interference than ordinary household a few levels higher. Carrying capacity is also much larger. Industrial computer fanless embedded machine CPU, memory integrated in the motherboard, the use of laptop hard disk, there are also CF cards and SSD solid state disk. Power supply is generally used 5-30V DC power supply.
Different scope of application:
Industrial computer has a wide range of applications, industrial computer slot inserted motion control card can control stepper or servo motor system, such as dispenser, winding machine, vision printing machine, mounter, PCB inspection machine, fast and slow walking machine, laser cutting machine, engraving machine and other equipment in. It can also communicate with PLC module through the serial port, RJ45 and other interfaces of the industrial control machine, such as the reflow soldering machine of Nitto Company adopts the PEC series PLC and TAC6000 temperature control module of Dalian Counting Control and the industrial control machine, which displays the operation interface with a monitor to display the temperature curve and temperature setting and other control operations. Industrial control machine is also used in building intelligence, security control, fire control alarm, highway and other fields.