The products and technology of the industrial control industry are very special, belonging to the intermediate products, which is to provide reliable, embedded and intelligent industrial computers for other industries. Industrial control machine has important computer attributes and characteristics, such as computer CPU, hard disk, memory, peripherals and interfaces, and operating system, control network and protocols, computing power, friendly human-machine interface.
In the intelligent era, the importance of industrial control machine is prominent
In the production process, the industrial control machine is not only the basis of monitoring and control of production machine equipment, production process, data parameters, but also the key equipment to further integrate software and hardware and transform data flow with different interfaces and protocols. With the progress of industrial control machine technology and the development of the industry, the role and tasks of industrial control machine in the intelligent era are becoming more and more important.
In recent years, the continuous promotion of computer, communication and network technology, the gradual rise of industrial Internet, industrial control machine industry has developed rapidly. And China manufacturing strategy deepening, industrial field only do field data lateral contact, collection, summary, etc., can not meet the actual demand of industry transformation, can two-way communication with decision-making end, and in the decision data into guiding information, reverse issued to the industrial field implementation, intelligent production mode become the main direction of industry transformation.
At present, the intelligent, digital and information upgrade of the industrial control machine is under way, and the more obvious one is the transformation of the service mode. In the traditional manufacturing mode, the services provided by the industrial control machine only include a single hardware product, and the enterprise only needs to ensure the performance and quality of the product to basically meet the demand. In the era of intelligence, industrial control machine customers no longer meet a single product, but are more inclined to the overall solution with industrial control machine as the core.
In addition, the information security problem of industrial control machine application is becoming more and more concerned. With the wide application of industrial Internet, intelligent manufacturing has given birth to a new manufacturing mode and emerging business form, and the industrial control machine system is gradually open, and the diversity and complexity of the industrial control machine network environment bring many security problems to it. Therefore, in order to ensure the normal operation of the industrial control machine system and protect the production safety and data information, enterprises also began to increase the attention to the security protection of the industrial control machine information.
Future development trends of IPC:
With the progress of technology, as well as the maturity of the market and users, in the new situation, the industrial control machine market presents a new development trend.
- Customization is becoming a trend
In addition to technological breakthroughs, in recent years, more and more industrial control machine manufacturers begin to pay more attention to customer needs, provide customers with customized services and products, constantly launch industry-specific products and solutions that meet customer needs, and pay more attention to application needs.
- IPCindustry is more and more widely
From the perspective of the application industry of industrial control machine, while the previous advantageous industries such as metallurgy, electric power, petrochemical and other traditional industries are gradually declining, some emerging application markets are constantly emerging, such as finance, medical care, intelligent transportation, self-service terminals, etc. At the same time, the Internet of things, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent life, intelligent agriculture, car networking, big data, cloud computing and other emerging applications produce a large number of incremental market, industrial machine market and another growth point is in the background of digital and intelligent manufacturing, the existing stock market need to upgrade, these are the growth point of the market.
- Embedded IPCis becoming more and more popular
Embedded industrial computer is a reinforced enhanced industrial computer that can operate reliably as an industrial controller in the industrial environment.
Compared with the traditional industrial control machine, the embedded industrial control machine is based on computer technology and application as the center, and is suitable for the industrial system with strict requirements on function, reliability, cost, volume and power consumption. It is generally composed of low-power processor, peripheral hardware equipment, operating system and user’s application program, which is used to realize the system control, monitoring, management and other functions.
The main advantages are below:
- Good adaptability:
It almost completely matches the function of the device, and has a certain scalability but not the expansion as the main purpose, so the product has good adaptability and high cost performance.
- Small volume:
Compact design, fully considering the rational use of the external interface and installation space.
- High reliability:
In addition to the electrical function to meet the reliability design, to carefully consider the reliability of heat dissipation design, electromagnetic compatibility design, dustproof and waterproof design, anti-vibration design and other reliability design content.
- Ultra-low power consumption and fanless design:
Due to the miniaturization of the whole machine, the heat dissipation capacity is limited, and the embedded system MTBF (average fault-free working time) requirement is also high requirements, especially in unattended applications, ultra-low power consumption without fan design becomes a must.
The end:
The fourth industrial revolution, led by intelligent manufacturing, is an intelligent system integrating a large number of computers, communication and control technologies. Under the background of the highly integrated industry development of various new technologies, the industrial control machine is at a new technology turning point.
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In the future, the industrial control machine will break through the existing technical architecture, its system architecture will be more open, integration will be higher, modular function, intelligent machine, etc., will provide important support for the intelligent system construction under the whole “Industry 4.0”.
