SIMATIC Box PC 827B

Maximum Performance and Flexibility with Intel® Core™2 Duo Technology

Overview

Description
Design and functions

Description

The SIMATIC Box PC 827B is an industrial PC featuring the latest Intel Core 2 Duo technology. It convinces with its high performance and expandability in harsh industrial applications.

It is equipped with powerful processors and is excellently suited for the fast processing of large data volumes and demanding visualization tasks at ambient temperatures of up to 55 °C.

For particularly compact solutions (e.g. in the control cabinet), the Box PC 827B can also be installed in space-saving portrait assembly. For the assembly of low-maintenance, highly available and hard disk-free systems, two CompactFlash slots are provided, which are easily accessible from the outside. With a memory expansion of up to 4 GB, data-intensive applications can be smoothly mastered. The SIMATIC Box PC 827B is the "big brother" of the SIMATIC Box PC 627B – featuring the same footprint, identical interfaces and image compatibility.

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Design and functions

New bus module for SIMATIC Box PC 827B

A new bus module is now available for the SIMATIC Box PC 827B. It enables the Box PC to accommodate 2x PCI and 3x PCIe x4 expansion cards. The previous option with 4x PCI and 1x PCIe x4 is also still available. The fast PCIe x4 slots provide a high data throughput of 1000 MB/s for data-intensive applications such as framegrabber cards. The bus module can be selected as an option in the PC configurator.

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More networking options with PROFINET onboard

With PROFINET onboard, the new SIMATIC PCs can be integrated in networks even more easily to support integrated realtime-capable communication from the corporate level right down to the field level. Realtime, IT communication as well as TCP/IP are thus possible on a single line, which saves installation and integration costs. The intelligent controller architecture with integrated 3-port switch facilitates the flexible and easy assembly of line or tree topologies.

Advantages

The PROFINET onboard interface saves one slot, which can be used for other PC cards
The intelligent controller architecture (ERTEC 400) improves the PC system performance by reducing the processor load
Full support of the software PLC WinAC RTX 2008
Optimized integration of SIMATIC PCs in PROFINET configuration (STEP 7 and NCM-PC)
Efficient self-diagnostics via status LEDs for eased commissioning and diagnostics

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Front portrait installation kit / mounting options

SIMATIC IPC - Front portrait installation kit

With the new portrait assembly kits, the SIMATIC Box PCs are attached to the mounting wall with their smallest surface to save valuable mounting space.

This way, the interfaces are accessible on the front of the mounted Box PC for maximum user-friendliness.

The existing mounting options (portrait assembly with interfaces on the bottom/top and wall mounting with brackets) are thus supplemented by a further practical option.