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News Release from: B and R Industrial Automation Corp | Subject: Power Panel 100
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 28 July 2004
Thin clients offer applications
flexibility
Thin client workstations are the perfect solution when you need to alternate between using different operating units at different stations.
Thin client workstations are the perfect solution when you need to alternate between using different operating units at different stations And B and R Power Panel 100 devices equipped with Windows CE operating systems are the best suited platform for handling this type of work
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 20 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Thin client software is used to manage the connections between the industrial PCs, Power Panel 100 devices and the server.
When used in this way, the thin clients act as pure input/output units since the applications are actually executed on the server itself.
Clients are networked using very cost-effective Ethernet TCP/IP standard components.
The flat, robust, fan-free construction, as well as being equipped with CompactFlash and many different display variants (up to 15in XGA TFT) makes the maintenance-free Power Panel 100 perfect for use as a thin client.
While other systems require an expensive operating system on the server for similar solutions, the Windows XP Professional operating system is quite sufficient at handling this favoured B and R solution.
The convenient B and R configuration package is able to generate industrially useful solutions for both clients and servers from the "Remote Desktop Protocol" standard service.
This means that clients do not require passwords as the preferred client automatically connects to the server on system startup.
The other inactive clients display a simple login screen until the operator opens up the application using the mouse or touch interface.
An additional feature includes the ability to connect drives.
If a drive is used on a client (eg USB DiskOnKey), then it is connected over Ethernet.
This allows the remote drive to also be available on the server, making the replacement of parameters completely uncomplicated even though the actual application is running on the server.
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