The choice of PC for machine control

摘要

Compared with an office PC, the industrial PC costs significantly more - mainly because the production quantities are much lower. So why would you use an industrial PC over an office PC? This article from Lenze suggests a number of very good reasons. If you need a PC to control the automation on your machine, there are suppliers offering powerful and flexible industrial PCs. The alternative to the industrial PC is an office PC which is likely to be lower in cost by a factor of two or three. Both are capable of machine control and comparable in speed of processing, memory capacity and software.