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Choose by installation situation

The right machine is not decided by its CPU, but by where you are going to put it. A cabinet baking in the sun, a −25°C freezer room and a vibrating CNC machine body are three entirely different problems — and each one eliminates a different group of machines.

Each page below spells out what that situation constrains and why, and only then lists the machines that remain. The figures are computed straight from the datasheets in our stock.

Outdoor electrical cabinets

Electrical cabinets installed outdoors — pump stations, transformer stations, traffic-light poles, container yards.

Industrial computer: 18 series Panel PC: 7 series
Cold storage & freezer rooms

Cold rooms at −18 to −25°C, or food-prep rooms at 2–8°C.

Panel PC: 8 series Industrial computer: 17 series
CNC & machine tools

Computers serving CNC machines, lathes and injection-moulding machines — as the operator display, collecting production counts, or running CAM software.

Panel PC: 27 series Industrial computer: 17 series
Machine vision & multi-camera

Visual inspection, code reading and dimensional measurement with GigE Vision industrial cameras.

Industrial computer: 12 series Panel PC: 14 series
SCADA & data acquisition stations

One machine standing in the middle, collecting data from a dozen devices: PLCs, VFDs, power meters, scales, temperature sensors — mostly speaking Modbus RTU over RS-485.

Industrial computer: 7 series Panel PC: 15 series
Vehicles, vessels & mobile platforms

A machine mounted on a forklift, truck, special vehicle or vessel.

Industrial computer: 18 series Panel PC: 7 series

Your situation is not listed here?

This list is still short and grows from the real questions customers send in. Describe your installation — our engineers reply within 24 working hours, and if the situation comes up often it becomes a page here.

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