Industrial personal computer (engl. Industrial PC, IPC, sometimes rugged PC)
The industrial personal computer (engl. Industrial PC, IPC, sometimes rugged PC) — the computer with architecture of x86, compatible to the majority program and the hardware of normal PCs, intended for work of industrial applications. Industrial PCs differ from normal in construction which considers requirements to the equipment working in adverse conditions — the increased vibration, the contaminated atmosphere, the increased humidity increased or the lowered temperatures. Industrial PCs are finished, serial, commercial and available products.
The industrial computer — the multipurpose computer intended for industrial application. The industrial computer — more universal term which can designate any computer it is not obligatory for the PC-compatible, it is not obligatory with architecture of x86 and not necessarily adapted to adverse uloviya, its characteristics are defined by requirements of a specific objective and the specific customer. The industrial PC is its private, but the most widespread type, on an equal basis with the built-in systems.
Scope
It is applied as a part of the managing directors controlling and measuring complexes in the industry; for creation of systems based on program PLCs. As components of diagnostic complexes in medicine. As a hardware platform for implementation of visualization and the human-computer interface (for example in information and payment terminals).
Considerable part of the body of industrial PCs has construction for placement in a standard 19-inch rack. Some are figurative or tablet.