Industrial Personal Computer (IPC) is an industrial control computer, which is a general term for tools that use a bus structure to detect and control the production process, electromechanical equipment, and process equipment.
IPCs have important computer attributes and features, such as computer motherboards, CPUs, hard disks, memory, peripherals and interfaces, as well as operating systems, control networks and protocols, computing power, and friendly man-machine interface. The products and technologies of the industrial control industry are very special and belong to intermediate products, providing stable, reliable, embedded and intelligent industrial computers for other industries.
The main categories of industrial computers are: IPC (PC bus industrial computer), PLC (programmable control system), DCS (distributed control system), FCS (field bus system) and CNC (numerical control system). The industrial computer micro-embedded industrial computer manufacturer's definition summed up: the working principle of the industrial computer and the computer is exactly the same, but because of the different directions of use, the optimization of structure and performance has also changed accordingly. Generally speaking, ordinary computers are mainly used in ordinary personal or business fields. In principle, the best use environment is in the home and office.
Industrial computer has been widely used in all aspects of industry and people's life. For example: control site, road and bridge tolls, medical treatment, environmental protection, communication, intelligent transportation, monitoring, voice, queuing machine, POS, CNC machine tools, subway, finance, petrochemical, geophysical exploration, field and so on.