Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] home vs. industrial PC..

JS,

I would go with the ordinary pc with a good power stabilizer/surge
protector, i.e.APC brand. The reason I would do this is because of the
savings in cost, availability of parts, and ease of repair. This is based
on my experience as a production manager in various manufacturing plants,
currently in the lumber industry making oriented strand board (OSB). We use
a combination of industrial grade computers and normal pc, more normal pc's
than anything, controlling a lot of our processes. We have less problems
with the normal pc's on the dusty, dirty manufacturing floor (sawdust mainly
than we do with the industrial rated type controls, i.e Allen Bradley touch
screens and various other forms. The key here is down time is lost money,
the less trouble you have more the better, and when you have problems, you
want it easily and quickly repaired.

Hope this helps

Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Swales" <jipeess2000@...>
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Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 4:04 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] home vs. industrial PC..


>
> hi group
>
> a company asked me if i was interrested to build 8-10 copies of my
> homebuilt router for them, after have seen it. now, this machine is
> made of hq parts only and the heart of it, an industrial panel-pc is
> v-e-r-y expensive (it runs flashcut with the black-box). my problem
> is that the specs for this pc is a little to low, or on the border
> line to run flashcut v2.0. the fastest cpu available for this
> particular board is a 1.2 gig celeron. so, in order to take the full
> advance of fc, i now have 2 options:
>
> 1. wait for a new upgrade/release of the industrial-pc (the complete
> unit costs around 2300$ today)
>
> 2. use an ordinary home/office pc with higher perfomance and 1/4 of
> the price, and parts available in any radio-shack.
>
> whats the advantages with an industrial pc one may ask? honestly, i
> dont know. i was just told by some engineer that its a must-do.
> i do know however, that they have a thicker circuit-board and more
> layers of surface protection/treatment, so they can stand vibrations
> better and someone claimed that the powersupply is more reliable.
>
> still, ive seen a lot of "home"-pc´s on the shop floor covered with
> s**t running year after year flawless.
>
> so, my question to all of you is, can i sell my machines with a built-
> in standard pc, and still consider it a serious machine (the monitor
> and keyboard is industriual, though)
>
>
> js
>
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