IPC is the product of the combination of computer technology and automatic control technology. It is not only an important category of computers, but also an important technical means to realize industrial production automation, achieve high quality, high output, low consumption, and improve the economic benefits of industrial enterprises. The development of industrial computer is of great significance to realize industrial modernization, promote industrial informatization and revitalize the economy.
Industrial personal computer is an industrial control computer, the English abbreviation IPC (Industrial Personal Computer), is a general term for a tool that uses a bus structure to detect and control the production process, electromechanical equipment, and process equipment. Industrial personal computers have important computer attributes and characteristics, such as computer CPU, hard disk, memory, peripherals and interfaces, as well as operating systems, control networks and protocols, computing power, and friendly human-machine interface.
Status of the Industrial Computer Industry Industrial Computer Market Distribution At present, the domestic industrial computer supply channels mainly come from manufacturers in Taiwan and mainland China. After several years of market struggle, foreign products (such as RADISYS, ROCKWELL, INTEL, etc.), due to the high cost , high price, difficult service, has completely withdrawn from the domestic market. At present, the R&D and processing technology strength of the domestic IT industry is constantly improving; all kinds of chips, various devices, and production equipment can basically be purchased equally in the international market; the portability of software resources can save a lot of manpower and material resources.
Under these favorable conditions, some domestic manufacturers seized the opportunity to rise rapidly and gradually squeezed foreign brands out of the domestic industrial control market by taking advantage of their local comprehensive competitive advantages. Some companies stand in the domestic industrial control market with an annual asset growth rate of more than 100%, and have successfully entered the international industrial control market. At present, the main industrial computer manufacturers in the domestic market include Taiwan's Advantech, ARBOR, Volkswagen, and mainland's EVOC, North China, and Tiantuo. The development momentum of IPC products of EVOC and other units is strong; Shengbo's embedded products have entered the international market and become the supporting products of European companies such as Siemens and Alstom; Aerospace Measurement and Control Company's VXI and PXI products have become ground measurement and control products in the national defense industry. ; Tiantuo's new generation TEC, TDS, TPC series products have also been successfully developed, and successfully launched TWS series workstations based on APCI, PXI bus products, leading the new trend of civilian industrial control automation. Among the counterparts in Taiwan, in addition to Advantech and ARBOR, ADLINK's CompactPCI and PXI series products also frequently appear in the market.
The products and technologies of the industrial control industry are very special and belong to intermediate products, which provide reliable, embedded and intelligent industrial computers for other industries.
With the continuous deepening of social informatization, the key tasks of key industries will increasingly rely on industrial computers, and low-cost industrial control automation based on IPC is becoming the mainstream, and local industrial computer manufacturers have also received attention. taller and taller.
With the rapid development of electric power, metallurgy, petrochemical, environmental protection, transportation, construction and other industries, from digital home set-top boxes, digital TV, to bank teller machines, highway toll systems, gas station management, manufacturing production line control, finance, government , national defense and other industries informatization demand is increasing, the demand for industrial computers is great, and the development prospects of the industrial computer market are very broad.
In recent years, FCS, DCS, PLC, IPC, NC and various embedded control devices are developing rapidly in the world. The market scale is growing at a rate of 10% to 15% per year, and my country's development speed is even higher in the world. At the forefront, the current market size of my country's industrial computer is about 20 billion yuan.
The industrial computer industry serves textile, construction, automobile, shipbuilding, printing, petrochemical and other industries. As these industries are affected by the financial crisis, the industrial computer industry is also more or less affected.
Industrial computer industry technology development trend PC technology promotes the development of industrial computer technology. Industrial computer is an industrial computer that is embedded in the industrial system and can work continuously and stably and reliably for a long time in extreme industrial environments. As the Intel CPU and Microsoft DOS/WINDOWS architectures evolved into de facto standards, ISA/PCI bus-hardened Industrial PCs (IPCs) began to penetrate the industrial field. Although IPC has undergone industrial transformation (such as canceling the large motherboard, using passive backplane, plug-in template, industrial power supply, micro-positive pressure heat dissipation of all-steel sealed chassis, automatic temperature detection and adjustment, etc.), its essence is still It is not an industrial PC. It cannot fundamentally solve the problems of horizontal placement of large motherboards, poor anti-vibration and shock resistance, high component failure rate, long mean time to repair (MTTR), and difficult maintenance. It is difficult to meet the harsh requirements of industrial control tasks.
my country's industrial control computers have experienced nearly 40 years of history since the early 1960s. From transistor industrial control computers to small and medium-scale integrated circuit industrial control computers, as well as today's large-scale integrated circuit industrial control computers, they have undergone three generations of changes. , the volume is getting smaller and smaller, and the function is getting stronger and stronger. In the early 1960s, there was no unified standard for industrial control computers, and software programming was also a very primitive way of programming machine instructions. In the 1980s, the development of industrial control computers took a big leap forward, both in terms of hardware and software, and there was a great development in terms of hardware and software. Configuration software package, users can configure their own control system. With the rapid development and popularization of computer technology, the data acquisition system has been widely used rapidly and penetrated into various fields such as geology, medical equipment, communication, etc., providing a good foundation for obtaining information.
The application of this system in the process of industrial computer can realize the collection, monitoring and recording of various parameters in the field, safe production and improve product quality. Along with the development of industrial computer, the data acquisition system can reflect the information on site more accurately, and provide more detailed data for decision makers, so as to adopt more suitable solutions to solve practical problems.
