Industrial Overview

Embedded PC systems offer a tantalizing mix of legacy hardware and software support with thoughtful migration to future hardware.  This can result in significant economic advantages by leveraging existing hardware and software and shortening the development cycle for new industrial automation systems.

Through advanced high-resolution and low latency encoders and resolvers, motor control and monitoring are tasks that have been expanded beyond the realm of switchboards and vector drive systems. EtherCat industrial control systems can be monitored and managed by any system with an Ethernet connection, offering the lowest latency and highest reliability and performance of any industrial automation and control system.

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Industrial: Key SBC Features

Limitless

New analog and digital input/output embedded systems have assimilated PID and other control loop functions.

Intelligent

IoT Ready! Replace a bank of PLC controllers with a single intelligent system that supports high-performance SCADA interconnects and Cloud connectivity.

Safe

Integrated dual Ethernet controllers allow for bridging of loops as well as control and monitoring of redundant networks.

Specific

Custom solutions easily configured with broad range of peripheral I/O options, legacy and new input/output connectivity, and IoT-Ready CPUs.

Process Control

Embedded systems add significant intelligence at the point of integration. A local embedded controller can monitor, record, and collate diverse process control data, while maintaining low latency regulation and safety monitoring.  Continuous statistical process control can aid in self-maintenance and calibration, reducing the need for operator intervention.

As embedded technology improves, monitoring and analysis rates are improved, expanding the range of processes that can be effectively implemented and controlled. Tomorrow’s manufacturing technologies can leverage computational levels in a single cubic foot of space that would have consumed then entire production line just a decade ago.

Low power Intel ®Atom SBCs such as the ADLS15PC and ADLD25PC or higher performance SBCs such as the ADLGS45PC or ADLQM67PC in both PC/104 or 3.5″ form factors can all be deployed successfully depending on specific I/O, power, and processing power requirements.

  • Monitor, record, and collate diverse process control data
  • Maintain low latency regulation and safety monitoring
  • Continuous statistical process control

Robotics

Reliability and ease of use are key drivers for selecting core control systems for robotic applications. From the factory floor to specialized medical applications, integration of mechanical control systems along with analytical processing or support tasks minimizes the footprint required by the control system allowing for reduced size and weight, or the inclusion of functions that would otherwise be impractical.

Autonomous material handling and transfer technologies benefit from the low power and high performance nature of embedded solutions.  Intelligent inspection and monitoring systems enhance worker safety and improve per-worker productivity.

SBCs like the ADLGS45PC are capable of 10Gb/sec bandwidth availability for peripheral I/O to sense and detect tasks, and 4GB/sec for high bandwidth processing.  Double the bandwidth is offered by the ADLQM67PC platform to handle the latest detector technology via the PCI-Express backplane.

  • Reliable core control systems
  • Autonomous material handling
  • Intelligent inspection and monitoring systems

Building Automation

Advances in mesh networks such as ZigBee have been deployed to link nano-computer systems for leaf-node environmental controls. Proliferation of nano controllers into every light fixture, light switch, thermostat, HVAC unit, etc., quickly generates a deluge of feedback and monitoring data, which must be made available to various investigation and instantaneous data mining tasks.

Automated setup and control of such systems becomes practical through a hierarchical network of local control nodes that break a mesh network up into bandwidth productive zones. Current embedded technology is well suited to this transparent task, and can add significant intelligence at each zone, and handle the overlap necessary for a robust deployment.

  • Link nano-computer systems for leaf-note environmental controls
  • Instantaneous data mining
  • Intelligence at each zone

Systems Integration

ADL Embedded Solutions is well versed at not only defining SBC and peripheral expansion board solutions for most applications, but also designing, creating and integrating custom enclosures to meet both low and high IP requirements for extended temperature and rugged environments.

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