The earliest use of industrial computers was in the factory production process. The control and monitoring of instruments and machinery was limited to industrial automation card systems, and its use was automation equipment. The barrier to entry for industrial computers is high. Large factories are reluctant to produce products that cannot achieve economies of scale, while small factories cannot easily enter due to a lack of funds. Most of the products are tailor-made according to customer needs.
Due to the requirements of many industrial-grade applications such as factory automation, or general-purpose embedded application systems such as point-of-sale systems, it is required to be more stable, more durable, safer, harder to use in harsh environments, easier to manage, and have up to 5 The supply period of the same product is more than one year. Therefore, PC products designed for various industrial characteristics have emerged, such as Industrial PC (IPC) and Embedded PC (EPC), mainly used in factory production line control (such as scheduling, feeding and other industrial automation systems). With the advancement of science and technology, the scope of application of IPC began to expand to various industries.
With the development of 3C, the application of industrial computer has expanded from initial industrial automation to office automation, entering the era of home automation. In recent years, industrial computers have gradually been applied to all aspects of life, integrating communication, network, software, optoelectronics, and key application areas, such as subway card readers, automatic ticket vending machines, bank ATMs, terminal sales systems, etc. Our common POS machines, game machines, network storage (NAS), digital signage, intelligent building automation monitoring systems and environmental monitoring systems, lottery computers, vending machines, large video game machines, healthcare equipment, computer phones in our daily life Integration (CTI), VoIP Gateway/PBX, etc.
The sales targets of industrial computers are usually system integrators (SI) or value-added suppliers (VAR), and there are fewer direct sales to end users. When customers purchase products, they must consider system integration and collocation. The complexity and price of the product itself are very important. Higher than general consumer products, so customer authentication time is also longer. As for the embedded computer, it is emphasized that it can adapt to various working environments and be embedded in many different product applications, such as human-machine interface, medical care, information system, global satellite positioning system, etc.
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