Industrial Personal Computer (IPC) is an industrial control computer. It is a general term for tools that use a bus structure to detect and control the production process, electromechanical equipment, and process equipment. An industrial computer has important computer attributes and features, such as a computer motherboard, CPU, hard disk, memory, peripherals and interfaces, as well as an operating system, control network and protocol, computing power, and a friendly man-machine interface.
The products and technologies of the industrial control industry are very special and are intermediate products that provide stable, reliable, embedded, and intelligent industrial computers for other industries.
The main categories of industrial computer are: IPC (PC bus industrial computer), PLC (programmable control system), DCS (distributed control system), FCS (field bus system) and CNC (numerical control system). Industrial control software system mainly includes three parts: system software, industrial control application software and application software development environment. The system software is the basic core of the other two, thus affecting the development quality of system software design.
Industrial control application software is mainly generated according to the user's industrial control and management needs, so it has specificity.