{"id":216,"date":"2012-03-28T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/templesystems.com\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2012-04-06T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T11:30:13","slug":"why-pc-based-controls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/?page_id=216","title":{"rendered":"Why PC Based Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the number of control systems available, why try PC based controls? \u00a0While there are many legitimate reasons to not use a PC as a control system, there are still compelling reasons to consider it. \u00a0If using PC&#8217;s for industrial controls were such a bad idea, why would so many industrial control products leverage PC&#8217;s in the design? \u00a0For example, many CNC control systems include a PC as the operator interface. \u00a0Most industrial operator interfaces are based around flat panel type PC&#8217;s. \u00a0Many of them run some version of Windows. \u00a0So, if it were such a bad idea, there probably wouldn&#8217;t be so many industrial control products using PC&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>So, why use PC&#8217;s? \u00a0Some reasons?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High quality development tools<\/li>\n<li>Processing Power<\/li>\n<li>Potential for reusable code<\/li>\n<li>Off-the-shelf software<\/li>\n<li>Potential for high quality, reliable code<\/li>\n<li>Connectivity<\/li>\n<li>Data management<\/li>\n<li>User base<\/li>\n<li>User interface<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/templesystems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rg07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-282\" title=\"rg07\" src=\"http:\/\/templesystems.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/rg07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the number of control systems available, why try PC based controls? \u00a0While there are many legitimate reasons to not use a PC as a control system, there are still compelling reasons to consider it. \u00a0If using PC&#8217;s for industrial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/?page_id=216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":213,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/templesystems.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}