Pro-face releases the APL3000 industrial PC range
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Pro-face UK product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Oct 17, 2008
Pro-face America has introduced the APL3000 Series of industrial PCs, which deliver data protection for demanding factory floor applications.
The APL3000 industrial PCs feature a 2GHz Intel Core Duo CPU and expanded memory, up to 4GB of RAM.
A built-in factory alert system monitors PC health and notifies in the event of excessive heat exposure, impending hard drive or fan failure or CPU or power troubles.
Advanced Data Protection uses hot swappable hard drives and RAID-enabled redundancy to protect critical plant data.
WinGP software allows the APL3000 to operate as an open HMI or as a PC running on third-party Microsoft Windows applications.
The APL3000 Series industrial PCs are UL Certified Class I Div 2 and CE rated.
The product line includes a range of operator interfaces, from 12.1 to 19in.
The APL3000's Factory Alert Health Monitoring system provides early warning fault detection.
Pro-face's reliability availability serviceability (RAS) technology monitors PC operation and performance such as voltage, fan speed, internal temperature, touch panels, backlight and hard drive failures.
Instant notifications are generated via sight, sound, on-screen and remotely or can be digitally output to a PLC so it can automatically switch to safe operations mode.
The hot swappable hard drive increases reliability, is ideal for fast field replacements and ensures production lines remain operational.
RAID-enabled back-up with soft mirroring provides redundant data storage and ensures data is recorded and stored safely across arrays.
There is a choice of Microsoft XP or Vista operating systems as well as a choice between the high performance, 2GHz Intel Core Duo 2 processor or the midrange 1.86MHz Celeron M processor.
The APL3000 Series offers solid state and standard hard drive options, including maintenance-free, 8GB bootable, compact flash or standard 6 GB hard drive, two or four expandable PCI slots for plug and play functionality and two independent Ethernet ports.
Custom configurations are available.
The APL3000 Series is available with WinGP or Pro-Server Ex software.
WinGP is a runtime option for the GP-Pro Ex HMI development software.
WinGP allows the APL3000 PCs to run as a Windows-based Open HMI communicating with a variety of external devices, including PLCs, motion, vision barcode readers and RTUs.
The software can communicate with third-party Microsoft Windows based applications, including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and C#.
Pro-Server Ex is enterprise data management software for data collection and process monitoring with APL3000 Series industrial PCs.
Pro-Server Ex includes a range of connectivity options to link the APL3000 Series to virtually any system via MES, DDE, DLL, Active X, and OPC Server.
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