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Factory Automation Computing for HMIs, Machine Monitoring and Vision
Where Factory Automation Computers Are Deployed
Factory automation computing sits in four places: the operator station on the machine, the control cabinet where machine data is collected, the inspection station where vision checks the part and the cleanroom where electronics and pharmaceuticals are made. Each carries its own sealing, connectivity and processing demands, so the right platform differs from one to the next.
Industrial Panel PCs Carrying the HMI on the Machine
The operator station is where the machine is run, so the industrial HMI has to survive the machine. Fanless industrial panel PCs from 10.1 to 24 inches with IP65 front panels, PCAP or resistive touch for gloved hands and a 9 to 36 V input carry the HMI, the recipe screens and the machine dashboard at the point of use. Our rugged touch panel PC deployment in heavy industry shows the same hardware working beside furnaces and presses.
IIoT Gateways Collecting Machine Data Beside the PLC
A machine monitoring system starts in the cabinet, where a fanless industrial IoT gateway reads the PLC over Modbus and OPC UA, takes isolated digital inputs from the machine and pushes OEE, downtime and condition data to the plant historian or the cloud. DIN-rail mounting, 24 V DC input and wide-temperature operation let it sit beside the switchgear, as our IoT gateways monitoring manufacturing machines project shows.
Edge AI Computers for Inspection, Guidance and Safety
Vision inspection, robot guidance and safety around a cobot all run on an edge AI computer at the cell. Industrial GPU computers with PoE camera ports and IEEE 1588 PTP synchronisation run the inspection model at line speed, NVIDIA Jetson computers with GMSL cameras keep people and robots safe together, and time-sensitive networking carries the result back to the controller in bounded time.
Fanless Cleanroom Computers and Displays for Controlled Environments
Semiconductor, electronics and pharmaceutical lines run inside cleanrooms where a fan is a particle source and a painted enclosure sheds. Fanless cleanroom computers and stainless steel or smooth-faced displays with sealed fronts run the process HMI and the batch record without adding to the particle count, and survive the wipe-down and sterilisation regime between batches.
Built Around the Interfaces Factory Automation Uses
Factory automation hardware is specified against the controller it talks to, the cabinet it mounts in and the network it joins, not just the processor inside. We select products whose I/O, protocols, mounting and certifications match the machine and the panel builder's requirements, and say clearly where a product is rated for the cabinet rather than the open floor.
Factory-Automation-Ready Hardware
Panel PCs
Fanless industrial panel PCs from 10.1 to 24 inches with IP65 fronts and gloved touch, for the HMI on the machine, the pendant arm and the line-side operator station.
Industrial IoT Gateways
Fanless DIN-rail and wall-mount gateways with Modbus, OPC UA, isolated DIO and 24 V DC input, for machine monitoring and data collection in the control cabinet.
Edge AI Computers
Industrial GPU and NVIDIA Jetson computers with PoE and GMSL camera inputs, for vision inspection, robot guidance and safety at the cell.
Industrial PCs
Fanless industrial PCs with expansion, isolated I/O and wide-temperature operation, for line controllers, MES clients and data servers on the production floor.
Ranges in Panel PCs
VIO C&T Solution Modular Panel PCs
C&T Solution 10.1 to 24-inch modular panel PCs on Intel Elkhart Lake, with a swappable computing module so the display and the computer can be upgraded separately.
PPC-N Arestech Fanless Industrial Panel PCs
Arestech 15 to 19-inch fanless industrial panel PCs with IP65 front panels and PCAP or resistive touch, for machine HMIs and operator stations on the production floor.
DM and PM Arestech Modular Panel PCs
Arestech modular displays paired with PM-2000 computing modules, for lines that standardise on one HMI size and vary the processor by machine.
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Ranges in Industrial IoT Gateways
iEP-5000G ASRock Industrial Atom IoT Controllers
ASRock Industrial Intel Atom x6000RE IoT controllers with DIN-rail mounting, isolated DIO and Ubuntu certification, for machine monitoring beside the PLC.
iEP-6010E and iEP-6012E ASRock Industrial Edge AI IoT Controllers
ASRock Industrial NVIDIA Jetson-based IoT controllers with DIN-rail mounting, for cabinets that also run local inference on machine and camera data.
ECX700 DFI Compact Waterproof Gateways
DFI Intel Atom compact IP67 computers with CAN, serial and a 4G LTE option, for machines and outdoor plant with no cabinet to mount in.
BCO-1000-EHL C&T Solution Compact Gateways
C&T Solution compact fanless computers on Intel Elkhart Lake with wide-temperature operation, for small panels and line-side data collection.
UST210 Axiomtek DIN-Rail Embedded Computers
Axiomtek Intel Atom fanless DIN-rail computers with wide-range DC input and serial and digital I/O, for protocol conversion and data collection in the cabinet.
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Ranges in Edge AI Computers
Nuvo-9160GC Neousys Industrial GPU Computers
Neousys fanless computers on Intel 12th to 14th Gen Core with a full-length NVIDIA RTX GPU and PoE camera ports, for multi-camera inspection at line speed.
POC-960GC Neousys Compact GPU Computers
Neousys compact fanless computers with an MXM GPU, for a single inspection station where a full-size GPU computer does not fit.
X6-ORN DFI Jetson Orin Computers with GMSL
DFI NVIDIA Jetson Orin computers with GMSL camera inputs, for safety monitoring around cobots and robot cells.
RCX-2700 PEG Vecow Expandable GPU Computers
Vecow rugged computers with PCIe expansion for a workstation GPU, for training and running inspection models next to the line.
MEGA-3110 Arestech Edge AI Computers
Arestech fanless edge AI computers with GPU support and multiple PoE ports, for cell-level vision and robot guidance.
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Ranges in Industrial PCs
ECX-3000 Vecow Fanless Industrial Computers
Vecow fanless computers with PoE and expansion options, for machine controllers that also take cameras and sensors directly.
RCO-6000-ADL C&T Solution Rugged Industrial Computers
C&T Solution rugged fanless computers on Intel 12th Gen Core with PCIe expansion and wide-temperature operation, for line controllers and local servers.
MERA-3100 Arestech Fanless Industrial PCs
Arestech fanless industrial PCs with wall and DIN-rail mounting, for MES clients and machine dashboards on the floor.
Nuvo-11000 Neousys Expandable Industrial Computers
Neousys fanless computers on Intel 13th and 14th Gen Core with PCIe and PCI slots, for legacy frame grabber and motion cards that still need a slot.
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Manufacturing Case Studies and Guides
See how we deploy panel PCs, IoT gateways and edge AI on production lines, and read our guides to industrial HMIs, UL-listed computers, TSN, PTP and cleanroom hardware.
An Extension of Your Engineering Team
Our engineers work as part of your team, not as a reseller. We check the I/O, the protocols, the cabinet and the mounting against the machine before you commit to a build.
Built, Imaged and Ready to Deploy
Memory, storage, expansion cards and I/O modules are fitted and the OS image loaded before shipping, so each unit is tested as a complete build and arrives ready to mount in the panel.
Supported for the Life of the Line
Repeatable builds, revision control and last-time-buy planning keep later units matching the first across a line's operating life, so a replacement drops in without requalifying the machine.
Hardware That Runs the Line.
Tell us which machine or cabinet the computer is going into, what it needs to talk to and how it will be mounted, and we will recommend the right panel PC, gateway or edge AI platform, then configure, image and test it before it ships.