Today’s factory environment …..
Developments within a multitude of industries have created demand for newer automation technologies that are driving, what we knew as ‘traditional factories’ – into factories that are increasingly dependent on technology to drive and control their internal processes. The increasing need for machine vision and predictive maintenance solutions – and the new era of Industry 4.0 IPC Solutions, making our factories ‘smarter,’ only serves to drive the advancement of advanced robotics, Artificial Intelligence Solutions and data acquisition within today’s factory environment.
As a result of the above, factories are continually increasing their productivity; improving their production yields, lowering their attrition (improving overall efficiencies), improving product quality and lowering production costs in today’s manufacturing industries.
In today’s modern manufacturing environment many applications such as machine vision and robotics, require high levels of computing performance, security, efficient data transfer rates and wide ranging and flexible I/O. Conversely, factory automation solutions require low-power consumption, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
With a wide range of industrial-grade Industrial IPC solutions, BVM ensure the provision of long life time availabilities of products (with subsequent continuation programs after EOL), capable of working both in ambient and wide temperature ranges in harsh environment conditions. As you develop your business to take advantage of the technological advances being made within automated manufacturing, BVM are here to advise and help you along the way if and when you need us.
Industrial and Embedded System PCs
Where embedded systems are concerned, the latest Intel and AMD CPU’s are ideal processors for factory automated applications such as machine vision systems. They come with high image processing capability (for precise image capturing via high resolution camera’s) and multiple expansion slots for graphics or capture cards. Supporting a range of environments with active-cooling and fanless models, a good cross selection of application requirements can be met. Typically for machine vision applications, important features such PoE ports and high-speed USB 3.0 for cameras serve applications well. As with our motherboard solutions, power inputs in the extended voltage range of 9-36V are supported.
With our complete industrial-grade embedded system PC’s, you as the customer can choose from a wide variety of outer case form factors,
I/O combinations and processor solutions to meet the demands of your product functionality.
Industrial and Embedded System PCs
Industrial and Embedded System PCs are ready deployable PC solutions coming configured with processor and I/O of choice, memory, storage operating system – and a whole host of other features depending on application need. BVM have a range of fanless and fanned system choice available – to meet the demands of general Industrial Automation through to in-vehicle or certified rail applications.
BVM can tailor your System PC of choice to your exact specification including processor, memory, storage and operating system.
Industrial Panel PCs (All in One Computing)
With a wide range of TFT panels inclusive of a touch screen interface types, the user can interrogate & control equipment parameters and monitor operational conditions for a diverse range of HMI requirements in manufacturing and process automation. Our Panel PCs are provided with either resistive touch or projected capacitive touch technologies, enabling the operator to touch control the PC via gloved input, whilst at the same time, simultaneously retaining mechanical robustness, resistance to water, corrosive liquids, dust, and moisture.
With our complete industrial-grade Panel PCs, you as the customer choose from a wide variety of TFT Screen sizes,
I/O combinations and processor solutions to meet the demands of your product functionality.
Industrial Panel PCs
BVM’s broad portfolio of industrial touchscreen Panel PCs facilitate applications from process monitoring and parameter control for industrial automation through to power generation and healthcare. An array of available processor formats, touchscreen types, fanless and fanned cooling ensuring minimum heat dissipation make them ideal solutions for demanding industrial environments. Our PoE Panels PC’s solutions have the ability to receive both power and data through for minimal cabling and cost.
• PoE IP66 Industrial Panel PCs
• Efficient and Intelligent Factory Management
• Wincomm WLPM-900 Series Modular Panel PCs
• What are the Advantages of an Industrial PC?
Stainless Steel Panel PCs and HMIs
Waterproof, Stainless Steel Panel PCs with an Anti-Corrosion design for use in Harsh and Aggressive Environments where water, dust and dirt are present. The main benefit of these Stainless Steel Waterproof Panel PCs is that their touch-screens are resistive and fully sealed to an IP66 rating, which make them highly suited for use in food preparation areas.
• Stainless Steel Panel PCs and HMIs
• Full IP66 IP69K Stainless Panel PC with Cable Gland Solution
• Stainless Steel Touchscreen Monitors: Rugged IP65/66 Design
• Waterproof IP66/IP69K Stainless Steel Panel PCs
AI-based Industry 4.0 Solutions
Our integrated Industry 4.0 IPC Solutions improve the production efficiency and warehouse management accuracy. To catch the wave of automatic assembly, robot system will be a major role along with the machine vision and motion control solutions. For factory automation control terminals, IEI offers industrial computing solutions with robust IP65 design, wide temperature, and flexible add-on card expansion.
AI-ready Solutions
Artificial Intelligence a method of using computers for perception, logic and learning. AI Ready Solutions with Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit. Artificial Intelligence is achieved by using systems with a combination of high performance scalable processors such as the Intel Xeon; FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays); Vision Processing Units (VPUs) and Neural Network Processors (NNPs).
BVM Design and Manufacturing Services
The manufacturer behind the solutions you know
When a standard embedded design won’t suffice for what you need, you can always turn to BVM for help and use our custom design and manufacturing services. Our custom designs are implemented against an ISO 9001-2015 quality management system. Important aspects to the design’s potential – such as power delivery, thermal management, vibration & shock and EMC (for the application of any necessary certifications) are all accounted for at the early stages of a product’s design.
And pivotal to everything we design is the products ability to be efficiently manufactured on a repeatable basis.
Case Study: IoT Gateway Device
BVM Ltd were approached by a global OEM, responsible for producing monitoring & control devices to produce analytics via telemetry. The client tasked BVM with designing and manufacturing a small IoT (Gateway) device for the purpose of monitoring systems for remote installations.
Case Study: Environmental Monitoring for Networked Heating Control
Human Machine Interface (HMI) for building heating and ventilation control systems (HVAC).
Design | Develop | Test | Manufacture
Here’s a selection of our design, manufacturing
& associated services: –
Design to Order: OEM/ODM Embedded Product Design Services
For customers designing a brand-new product from scratch or working with an existing prototype.
- Prototyping – Custom PC Design, Custom Panel PC, Custom Racks or Custom Peli Case PC
- Prototyping pre checks (chargeable one-time fee for existing prototype)
- Hardware compatibility
- Thermal testing
- Software compatibility
- Custom PCB / Board Design
- Custom Chassis Design
- Custom Cables
- Custom Back Panels and Faceplates
- Custom Cooling
- Custom Metal Work (internal brackets, mounting brackets)
- Touchscreen Integration and Display Enhancements
- Software – Custom OS Image
Build to Order: Embedded System Integration and Customisation Services
Take an existing system and we can:
- Custom specification (CPU, Ram, I/O, Storage)
- Chassis customisation and branding
- Custom BIOS
- Software – Custom OS Image
- Custom Packaging and branding
- Integrating newly designed or existing hardware into a larger system
Build to order Racks and Towers, Peli Case PCs and Mini-ITX PCs
Windows IoT and Windows 10 Embedded: Configuration, Integration and Deployment
Porting, Integration & Deployment
- Windows image capture from customers HDD
- Linux image capture from customers HDD
- Windows / Linux Deployment from customers image
- Custom Windows images, create and deploy
- Update management
- Custom Linux and Android images?
- Custom BIOS