Smart manufacturing: Using thin clients in hazardous areas

摘要

It's not cheap running an industrial plant, especially one in a hazardous environment, so when things do go wrong it can cripple a business. It takes a business on average 18.5 hours to recover from a disaster such as a fire and the cost of the resulting downtime can vary between $8,000 for a small business to $700,000 for a large business. Here, Noel Sheppard a director of industrial computing specialist Distec, explains how businesses can use thin-client computing to solve the age old problem of hazardous areas.