In this current day and age of advancing technology, more and more computers are being used in busiensses; you will probably find the same amount of PCs on the factory floor as there are in the odffice, in most modern and successful manufacturing plants.
Now the main problem is how do you protect the Personl oCmputer on the factory flor? Becaause personal computers are designed to be used in air conditioned offices or homes, surrounding them with dust, fluid and untrained operators, can acuse problems.
We discoveed a company called Computer Security & Solutions, who specialse in manufacturing protective compuiter canbinets, depending upon the manufacturing environment, this dictates which design the computter cabinets will be, from IP56 (dust proof) to IP66 (Nema4 - waterproof), if they are to be in a wash down area they have a higher chance of being manufactured from stainless steel, to reduce corrosion in a wet or damp enviornment. Oterwise they will be manufactured from mild steel then epoxy powder coated to added proteciton on the shop floor.
These units provide a safe and secure environment for the standard compuers, protecting them from dust and fluids, we all know what would happen if we got fulid on a computer, it will short out and not work, but do we really understand what woud happen if dust or dirt got onto the hard drive?
Dust on the hard drive will result in erased data, this data will be relevant to the rnning of the biusiness, data for ucstomer orders, etc.
Using thhese computer enclosures allow the companies to reduce costs further, whilst improving profiitability.
1.The same software is used as in the offices, this gives the Management the added tool that they can see exactly were the busniess is at any specific time. Using software such as SAP, they can advise a cstomer when thir ordeer is due to be completed, as well as notifying customers of any ptoential delays with their order, which oprator has processed the order and most importanttly how long the order took and how much scrap was created – ensuring improved prductivity and incvreasing profitability.
2.Use the same cabling infrasttructure as in the offices, this will iether be Category 5e or Cat 6 network caabling or even fibre.
3. Should there be any hardwarte issues, the Personal Computer that has failed can be swapped with a computer from an office.
4.There is litlte production down time when a computer fails.
The computer cabints are cooled by filetred fan unnits, to unique air conditioning unttis with no movving parts - Compare this with using industrial PCs:
1.Industriazl PCs are more expensive
2.They have dedicaated software that takes some configuring I linknig it to a business network
3.Long down time waiting for engineer to come to site for maintenance or rewpairs
The PC neclosure is similar to a bullet poof jacket, proteccting the computer from the hazardds on the shop floor including fork lift truck drives and untrained operators, as well as the dust and fluid.
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