A fanless panel PC or box PC still needs a complete path for heat to leave the installed system. Select it against the air temperature around its heat-dissipating surfaces—not the CPU’s junction-temperature limit—and verify sustained application performance with the cabinet closed. An IP65 front panel protects a different aspect of the installation; it does not…
Independent NICs or an Internal Switch? What ‘4× LAN’ Actually Means on an Industrial PC — and How to Verify It Four RJ45 connectors on an industrial PC can be built two completely different ways, and the datasheet rarely says which: Four independent network controllers — four separate MACs, four PCIe lanes, four interfaces in…
Key result: The Vstrong BI03-IC industrial PC (Intel N95) ran OPENLOGIC’s AnyPLC Virtual PLC Runtime at a 1 ms control cycle for more than 84 million consecutive cycles (about 23 hours). Average jitter was 0.245 µs, maximum jitter was 4.125 µs, and there were zero task overruns, all under a sustained 1.96 GFLOP/s floating-point load….
The Questions That Come After the First Unit Arrives The sourcing list is short: CPU, memory, I/O count, form factor, price. The deployment list is longer, and it is the one that decides whether the project is still running in year three. Two categories come up repeatedly, across customers and across markets: The software stack…
Specifying “stainless steel, IP69K” is not enough to get an enclosure that survives a washdown line. Four things decide it, and only one of them is the grade: Chloride exposure decides 304 vs 316 — not the industry, and not the price. Brine, chlorinated sanitisers and seawater-derived cleaning agents are what push a specification to…
Most industrial panel PCs cannot take an expansion card at all. Among those that can, three constraints decide whether your card will work — and they are usually checked in the wrong order. Slot type and count — PCIe x16, x4, x1, or legacy PCI. Many machine vision cards still in service are PCI, and…
VstrongTech is a Shenzhen-based industrial computer manufacturer that customizes I/O, power input, touchscreen, enclosure and hardware configuration for OEM equipment. We customize industrial panel PCs, fanless box PCs, industrial monitors and rugged tablets. Most OEM requests are met by modifying a proven platform rather than designing from scratch. This keeps MOQ, lead time and certification…
Before ordering rugged industrial computers from a Chinese manufacturer, confirm five things in writing: The MOQ for your exact configuration, not the catalog model. A lead time broken down by parts sourcing and production. A warranty that states what is covered and who pays freight. A validation process that ties your approved sample to the…
Five objections come up every time an engineer proposes replacing a hardware PLC with an industrial PC running CODESYS, TwinCAT or a real-time Linux stack. Ranked by how often they actually cause failures in the field: Uncontrolled OS updates rebooting the machine — real, and the most common cause of unplanned downtime. Entirely preventable. Behaviour…
Before you send a specification to a new supplier, five questions determine whether the relationship is worth starting: What do they actually build— and what do they buy from someone else? Does the platform fityour product roadmap, not just this project? Where are the real limitsof their customisation? What can they prove— certification reports, factory…