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----------------------------------------------------------Permission is granted for the below article to forward,reprint, distribute, use for ezine, newsletter, website,offer as free bonus or part of a product for sale as longas no changes a Gone are those times when the companies and the organisations didn't need a hi-tech system to handle them. Owing to the considerable increase in the business sector and thus, an enormous increase in the complexity of the organisational struc
Computersare now everywhere, not just in our offices and homes but nearly every workingenvironment now seems to be controlled by a PC. Of course their processingpower often means tasks that took hours or days before are done almostinstantly. Even inheavy industry, computers, if they havent replaced human workers, now runside-by-side with them. Yet computers can be sensitive pieces of equipment andoften conditions in some industry locations can cause tremendous problems withIT. It would beillegal and unethical to make a human employee operate in hostile conditionswithout adequate protection or safety equipment but it is very rare that peoplemake the same consideration for computers. However,each year, companies have an average of 501 hours of computer downtimecosting millions in annual productivity and revenue. According to a recent study,computer downtime is responsible for the loss of 3.6% of annual revenuecompared to 6 % caused by employee sickness and absence. Yet often, the conditions that computers have to work inoften cause many of the problems associated with computer downtime, from dust,fluid spills, excessive temperatures (either hot or cold) or bangs and knocksfrom forklifts or other industrial machinery. Computers of course are very sensitive piece of equipmentand designed to run in offices or homes, certainly not industrial locations.Yet millions of PCs do just that, from controlling machinery like furnaces orpresses to processing data on production lines. Of course specialist PCs are available that can endureextremes of hot and cold and withstand being bombarded by dust or fluids.However, these are often highly expensive machines and as computers develop atan exponential rate, will need replacing quite regularly. This is quite possibly the reason many industrial computerusers opt to use cheap PCs and replace them regularly rather than opt forexpensive and quickly obsolete specialist industrial computers. However, there are inexpensive solutions to protecting PCsin hostile environments in the shape of industrial PC enclosures. All computershave an enclosure of sorts, normally just a thin piece of aluminium, which protects thecircuitry. However, for industrial applications these are not adequate enoughand fail to protect the PC from spills, dust or knocks by heavy machinery (suchas fork lifts) Anindustrial PC enclosure is made from all sorts of materials includingfood-grade stainless steel and can house a conventional PC protecting it fromdust and fluids, heat and cold (often industrial enclosures have airconditioners or heaters installed to control temperature) and can withstanddramatic impacts (some even claim to be able to withstand a bomb blast). Theseindustrial PC enclosures allow a conventional PC to be repaired or replacedwhilst still keeping the same enclosure, allowing operators the opportunity tokeep abreast of the latest upgrades. Many industrial computer enclosures canalso operate safely even in explosive atmospheres as the circuitry is housedinside, preventing any dangerous sparking. They can also be completely dousedin water making them perfect accessories for food manufacturing or areas thatare frequently hosed down.
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