Category Archives: Industrial PCs

Phoenix Contact Designline Contest is now Closed

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Thank you for participating in our Designline IPC Contest! We had such an overwhelming response to this contest with many great entries from across South East Asia.

We will be announcing the winners as soon as we finish looking through all the entries, so stay tuned on our Blog for the results!

 

Microsoft drops XP support

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Microsoft recently issued a security intelligence report stating that computers running on its Windows XP operating system are six times more likely to have been infected with malware than those running Windows 8.

Coupled with the fact that Microsoft will stop offering support and security updates and patches for Windows XP as of April 8, 2014, that means control systems that run on XP are at serious risk of infection.

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Compact, Energy-Saving Embedded Box PC for the DIN Rail

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Phoenix Contact is launching the new VL BPC 1000 industrial PC product line of embedded box PCs for especially harsh industrial environments.

These devices are suited for simple control and communication tasks and for data collection in mechanical engineering, systems engineering, building automation, traffic engineering, and energy data transmission applications.

The IPCs are designed to meet high temperature, vibration, shock, and EMC requirements and thus ensure maintenance-free 24/7 operation.

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Industrial-Grade Operator Panels for Basic Applications

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Phoenix Contact rounds out its range of web-based operator panels with 10- and 15-inch versions. This means that more display area is available for visualizing basic applications.

The larger display area has the advantage that fewer process diagrams have to be configured to display all operating data. For operator panels with small displays, information is distributed across various process diagrams.

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