Industrial Panel PCs are equipped with touch-screen displays to allow direct interaction with the user. In terms of mounting, they have very flexible options: they can be mounted on walls and control panels, or directly inside machinery or other structures, making monitoring and control of operations even more convenient and accessible to operators.
As good industrial devices, these Panel PCs are built with robust hardware, such as industrial motherboards, high-performance processors, reliable RAM memory and protection against damage caused by shock or vibration. In addition to all the connections typical of industrial environments, such as serial and LAN, and other specific I/O ports as required.
The key words are basically 2: reliability and robustness.
Fields of use for Panel PCs
Industrial Panel PCs are suitable for all those harsh environments where dust, vibrations, high temperatures or humidity are the order of the day, and robustness is a key requirement. For this, the most frequent fields of use are:
● industrial automation (for monitoring and control of machinery and production processes);
● industrial production and manufacturing (for production line control, inventory management, product traceability and production data processing);
● energy and utilities (for monitoring electricity grids, controlling distribution systems, managing metering data and optimising energy efficiency);
● transport (for the control of traffic signalling systems, traffic management, navigation systems, railway stations and other mobility-related applications);
● logistics and warehousing (for inventory management, product tracking, order management and shipping);
● food sector (for monitoring and control of production lines, temperature management and quality control activities).
How much do Panel PCs cost
The cost of Panel PCs varies depending on several factors, including size, connections, brightness, CPU, disk, RAM, etc. In general, they range from a basic cost of around €600 up to €2,000 for the most powerful Panel PCs on the market.