Control cabinet industrial PCs feature fieldbus links
Hayes Control Systems, which builds automation solutions based on open-architecture PC technology and distributes the Beckhoff range of industrial PCs in the UK, is now offering compact, ultra-robust units for installation in control cabinets.
Its C69xx Industrial PC series comes with a 3½ inch motherboard equipped with Intel Celeron M or Pentium M processors up to 1.8 GHz. It also has multiple fitting options, flash disk and slots for Beckhoff mini PCI fieldbus cards for Profibus, DeviceNet and CANopen or additional Ethernet cards.
Two independent Ethernet interfaces make it suitable as a compact central processing unit for an EtherCAT control system. A 100 Mb Ethernet port offers optimum performance for EtherCAT control tasks while a gigabit port provides for connecting to higher-level networks.