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Siemens* New Industrial PCs Help Customers Avoid Downtime
Intel® Pentium® M processors deliver reliably high performance, even in harsh industrial settings
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The Siemens Automation and Drives Group, headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, is a worldwide leader in industrial automation systems. Siemens products include everything from electrical and machine tools to whole industry solutions, such as the automation of entire automobile factories or chemical plants. The company also offers software for linking production and management systems and for optimizing production processes. |
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Industrial PCs are important tools in demanding automation tasks, such as visualization and computing, where large amounts of data must be processed. In industrial settings - such as factories - rugged environmental conditions prevail. |
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Downtime equals catastrophe in a highly automated factory environment; so Siemens' customers demand high availability on the system platform. Operating around the clock, automated systems must deliver very high performance, even when subjected to higher ambient temperature, shock/vibration, dirt/dust, and space constraints - common in industrial settings. Long-term platform availability, scalability and stability are essential since automation systems have extended lifecycles. Siemens must meet all of these demands in a highly competitive business climate where turning a profit depends on keeping development costs low. |
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Siemens' latest box and panel PCs meet all of these demands via the high-performance/low-power features of the embedded Intel® Pentium® M processor 760 at 2GHz and the Intel® 915GM chipset. Designed to support automation tasks that process high volumes of data, the SIMATIC* Box PC 627 and SIMATIC* Panel PC 677 are optimized for stability and reliability in harsh industrial settings. |
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The new processors are some of the highest performing, lower-power processors for embedded solutions. These features in combination with robust embedded graphics, and built-in RAID functionality, enabled Siemens to deliver a tightly integrated platform in a small enclosure, with minimal development work - saving time and cutting costs. |
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