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Beckhoff Industrial PCs satisfy industry’s demands:
– the right Industrial PC for every controller
– highest performance PCs with Intel
®
Pentium
®
4,
Intel
®
Pentium
®
M and Core™ Duo processors
– open standards following the ATX norm
– components carefully tested to ensure appropriateness
for industrial applications
– appealing industrial design housings
– easy access to PC components
– Individual housing construction allows optimum adaptation
to controller requirements.
– integration of electromechanical buttons, switches, scanner,
handwheel and other components in the Control Panel
Robust industrial design PCs with highest performance components
The personal computer has experienced
an unprecedented success story and has
become a fi rmly established part of every-
day life, including industrial environments.
Together with associated software, PCs in
different shapes and forms are at the core
of a wide range of diverse automation
tasks such as control of machines, processes
or logistics systems, networking of system
components, data acquisition, or image
processing. For classic control tasks, PC-
based control technology offers excellent
scalability and fl exibility and is therefore
increasingly being used in place of hard-
ware PLCs.
Beckhoff is one of the pioneers of
PC-based automation: The fi rst PC control
system was delivered as early as 1986.
Beckhoff Industrial PCs are characterised
by a wealth of technology know-how accu-
mulated over recent years. In combination
with the TwinCAT automation software,
they offer a high-performance control sys-
tem for PLC, NC and CNC functionalities.
An important feature of the Beckhoff
product philosophy is the use of advanced,
high-performance components and proces-
sors for the development and design of
Industrial PCs: They integrate the latest
developments offered by the technology
market and are used successfully world-
wide.
In addition to long-standing experience,
another factor driving the development
of our comprehensive IPC product portfolio
is customer-orientation. Six IPC series with
a wide range of basic PC types form the
basis of our product range. For any type
of application, a suitable control computer
can be confi gured from a large number of
devices and options.
The PC housing is made from stainless
steel and varies in size between paper-
back format to 14-slot passive backplane,
depending on the device type.
Elegant Control Panels
The IPC is complemented by an industrial
display unit. The Beckhoff Control Panels
are the visual front end for machines or
plants. Spatial separation of display/control
unit and control computer offers maximum
fl exibility. Appealing design, robustness and
suitability for industrial applications were
important criteria in the development of
the Control Panel series, which comes with
display sizes between 6.5" and 19".
Careful selection of components
All IPC components are carefully selected
to ensure compatibility, long-term avail-
ability, mechanical load-bearing capacity,
and suitability for industrial applications.
The development of Beckhoff all-in-one IPC
motherboards, interface cards, low voltage
supply units, keyboard and UPS controllers
and other electronic modules is based on
the stringent requirements for Industrial
PC components, in order to ensure safe
operation now and in future. International
standards and experience in the applica-
tion of PC systems under diffi cult industrial
conditions provide the basis for Beckhoff
system integration.
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