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News Release from: Hayes Control Systems | Subject: Industrial PC for cabinet installation
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 14 September 2006
Industrial PC designed for cabinet
installation
An industrial PC for installation in control cabinets includes a a 3.1/2in motherboard equipped with Intel Celeron M or Pentium M processors up to 1.8GHz.
Hayes Control Systems, the exclusive UK distributor for Beckhoff, now offers an Industrial PC designed for installation in control cabinets The new C69xx Industrial PC series comes with a 3.1/2in motherboard equipped with Intel Celeron M or Pentium M processors up to 1.8GHz
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 30 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The series consisting of two types of Industrial PC, features compact cases with PC connections on one side of the housing.
Both PCs can be equipped with mounting plates on two sides and fastened with screws in the control cabinet.
Installation can, therefore be achieved using either the rear or right-hand side panel.
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Rizla, a UK supplier of cigarette papers, is using Beckhoff industrial PCs, supplied by Hayes Control Systems, for a demanding control and plant monitoring system throughout its Pontypridd plant.
PC and PLC form a DIN rail unit
With the CX series of Embedded PCs, Beckhoff has combined PC technology and modular I/O level to form a DIN rail unit in the control cabinet.
The series is supplied with a 24V DC power supply unit, which can be integrated with uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and, battery packs can be externally connected and installed on a 30 mm DIN rail close to the PC.
Differences in this series can be identified via the processor and cooling systems on each PC.
While both products have cooling fans behind the right-hand side panels, no fan is required at the C6925 with the Intel Celeron M ULV 1GHz; but the C6920 with Intel Celeron M 1.5GHz or Intel Pentium M 1.8GHz has a fan inside.
The latter version also has an easily exchangeable cartridge at the bottom of the housing.
In both cases the basic configuration features a flash disk that effectively creates a high-reliability PC without any moving parts.
Users have the additional option of integrating a hard disk into the PC and a mini PCI slot is available inside the C69xx.
Beckhoff mini PCI fieldbus cards for PROFIBUS (FC3151), CANopen (FC5151), DeviceNet (FC5251) or an additional Ethernet card (FC9051) can also be installed inside the PCs.
The series can alternatively, be combined with Beckhoff Control Panels with DVI and USB connection, or with Ethernet Control Panels as operating units.
This creates a high-performance control platform for machine construction and system engineering applications, particularly in conjunction with the TwinCAT automation software under Windows CE, Windows XP, or Windows XP Embedded.
Two independent Ethernet interfaces within the design mean that the C69xx series is ideally suited as a compact central processing unit for an EtherCAT control system.
While the 100 Mbit Ethernet port offers optimum performance for all EtherCAT control tasks and, a gigabit port is additionally available for connecting the higher-level network.
* About Hayes Control Systems - Hayes Control Systems is the leading UK expert in the design and supply of complete automation solutions based on open-architecture PC technology.
The company is the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for Beckhoff, whose products include fieldbus-independent input/output systems, industrial PCs, and soft programmable controllers, which use standard PC hardware, and which can also provide sophisticated motion control functions.
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