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Microprocessor

Microprocessor-based devices are now commonly used in many products due to their low cost and ability to add new features with fewer components. Protection relays and motor control centers now use microprocessors in individual cubicles to reduce on-site wiring and enable commissioning tests from a single point. However, integrating different computer systems introduces challenges in ensuring compatibility and ease of commissioning new designs. When installing computer systems in industrial environments, factors like location, environment, power supply, and interference must be carefully considered to ensure reliable operation.

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Microprocessor

Microprocessor-based devices are now commonly used in many products due to their low cost and ability to add new features with fewer components. Protection relays and motor control centers now use microprocessors in individual cubicles to reduce on-site wiring and enable commissioning tests from a single point. However, integrating different computer systems introduces challenges in ensuring compatibility and ease of commissioning new designs. When installing computer systems in industrial environments, factors like location, environment, power supply, and interference must be carefully considered to ensure reliable operation.

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Microprocessor-based Devices

It is now so easy to design a microprocessor-based computer, and so cheap to manufacture these, that many products now contain them. This adds new features to existing products, so more can be achieved with fewer components. Protection relays for use in electrical systems now use microprocessors. Individual cubicles in a motor control centre may have integrated microprocessor protection and control modules. When designing a large plant, this can reduce on-site wiring, and enable many commissioning tests to be carried out from a single point. However, this introduction of different systems has brought with it new areas which must be carefully thought out. Making one computer system work with another is not always straightforward. Although there are common standards for data communication in industrial systems, it can be complicated to commission a brand new design. Although the only moving part might be a hard disk which is in a hermetically sealed enclosure, the environment in which a computer is located is important. Server rooms in companies will be air-conditioned. The power supply will be filtered so that high frequency transients or spikes are removed. Since an unexpected power interruption can cause loss of data and corruption of files, uninterruptible power supplies frequently have to be provided. When installed in an industrial environment, a clean, dry, cool location should be selected. Since computers use low signal levels, interference from other items of electrical apparatus can be a problem. Optical-fibre cables can be used for long routes where this is the case. Computers and computing is a field in itself, there is much jargon to come to terms with as well as new skills to learn. Working with computers and microcontrollers introduces new challenges, but also some exciting opportunities. The technology is relatively cheap, and getting cheaper all the time. Similarly the computing power available is increasing all the time. In the office, new ways of working have resulted, and in industry the automation has brought cost savings and productivity improvements. There are still many more developments to come, especially in the areas of mobile computing, and it is likely that these will seem every bit as revolutionary as what has happened in the last ten years.

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