An industrial PC (IPC) is a computer engineered for continuous operation in environments where a standard office desktop would quickly fail — factory floors, kiosks, control cabinets, vehicles, warehouses and outdoor enclosures. Unlike consumer PCs, industrial computers are built around wide-temperature components, fanless heat-spreading chassis, wide-range DC power inputs, protection against dust and vibration, and long-term supply of the same model so that machines deployed today can be serviced and replicated years later. The category page you are viewing covers Thinvent's industrial PC range, including the IPC3 series built on Intel® Core™ i3-1215U processors.
The heart of a modern industrial PC is its processor platform. The Intel® Core™ i3-1215U is a 12th generation part with 6 cores (2 performance + 4 efficient), up to 4.4 GHz turbo frequency and 10 MB of Intel® Smart Cache. That combination delivers enough compute for multi-window SCADA/HMI dashboards, database-driven shop-floor terminals, machine-vision pre-processing and edge data collection, while keeping power draw and heat output low enough for a sealed, fanless enclosure. Pairing it with 16 GB of DDR4 memory and a 1 TB SSD — a common configuration — gives headroom for Windows 11 Professional, Windows 11 IoT, Linux or DOS-based legacy applications.
Industrial deployments usually differ from office IT in I/O and mounting rather than raw speed. Typical requirements include multiple serial ports (RS-232/RS-485 via DB9) for PLCs, weighbridges, barcode scanners and older machine controllers; dual Gigabit Ethernet for segregated control and plant networks; HDMI output for operator displays; and USB 3
