Siemens Industrial Box PC
SIMATIC IPC BX-21A
The mini universal genius for automation systems is a high-performance IPC with the Siemens EcoTech label. It can be used as a gateway, for data acquisition and pre-processing. Due to its high compactness, the SIMATIC IPC BX-21A can be easily integrated into brownfield and greenfield systems.
Effortlessly connect production and office IT with SIMATIC IPC BX-21A.
Ultra-compact IoT gateway for data collection, pre-processing and forwarding of data. Due to the ultra-compact enclosure, which has a volume of just 0.4 liters, the SIMATIC IPC BX-21A can be easily – even subsequently – integrated into the control cabinet or directly on the machine with minimal space requirements.
The enclosed all-metal enclosure enables the new industrial PC to be used flexibly and maintenance-free even under harsh conditions. Thus the SIMATIC IPC BX-21A makes it possible to reliably record / collect / process / transfer data directly in the production environment and can be flexibly used as an IoT gateway between the cloud or the corporate IT level and production.
Key Features
As an open platform for collecting, processing, and transmitting data directly in the manufacturing environment, the SIMATIC IPC BX-21A ensures a consistent connection between production and the IT level. It convinces with a number of practical advantages:
- Low space requirement for flexible mounting: With a housing volume of 0.4 liters and flexible mounting options such as book or wall mounting, it is extremely compact and requires only minimal space in the control cabinet.
- High performance and still fanless: High performance due to up to 16 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB SSD.
- High robustness for the manufacturing environment: Designed for 24/7 continuous operation at ambient temperatures of up to 50 °C and high vibration/shock requirements.
- Long-term availability: service and support period up to 11 years
- Versatile in use: Can be used as a gateway for e.g. collecting and pre-processing data, for edge and Docker concepts as well as for visualizations.
Design
Basic design
- All-metal enclosure, resistant to vibrations and shocks, also with high electromagnetic compatibility
- Industrial power supply
- 24 V DC (19.2 to 28.8 V; without electrical isolation)
- Graphics connection DisplayPort
- Resolution: Up to 4 096 x 2 160 pixels
- Interfaces (accessible from one side):
- 3 x LAN 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet interface (RJ45); 4 x USB V3.1
- Fieldbus
- PROFINET Realtime via Standard Ethernet interface
Equipment variants
- Processor/main memory configuration:
- X6413E: 2-core/2 threads with 4 GB RAM (available soon)
- X6413E: 2-core/2 threads with 8 GB RAM (available soon)
- X6413E: 4-core/4 threads with 8 GB RAM
- X6413E: 4-core/4 threads with 16 GB RAM
- Drives:
- 128 GB Eco SSD
- 236 GB Eco SSD
- 512 GB Eco SSD (available soon)
- 1 TB Eco SSD (available soon)
- Preinstalled operating systems:
- Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC, 64-bit, MUI
- SIMATIC Industrial OS (available soon)
- Industrial Edge – SIMATIC (available soon)
Self-diagnosis using ORCLA (available soon)
Application
Diverse range of applications, for example:
- IoT gateway for the acquisition / collection / processing / transmission of data
- Integration of machines in Cloud/Edge solutions
- Retrofitting of digitalization tasks in systems
- Simple visualization tasks
The SIMATIC IPC BX-21A Advantage
High-performance data processing with extremely compact design
- Current CPU technology of the Intel Elkhart Lake series
- X6413E: 2-core/2 threads (available soon) and X6413E: 4-core/4 threads with TPM
- 4 GB, 8 GB, or 16 GB RAM
- Power consumption <= 21 W, i.e. low heat dissipation in the enclosure/control cabinet
- Wake-on-LAN for remote-controlled switching between standby and active state
High degree of industrial functionality for implementing an embedded solution
- Solid-state drive as rugged mass storage: 128 GB / 256 GB; 512 GB / 1 TB (available soon)
- 3x Gbit Ethernet (teaming-capable); PROFINET with RT functionality (via Standard Ethernet)
- 4x USB 3.1 ports
- 1x DisplayPort as graphics connection
- Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC 64-bit
- SIMATIC Industrial OS (available soon)
- Industrial Edge – SIMATIC (available soon)
High system availability in order to reduce the risk of potential failures and maintenance costs
- Maintenance-free since there are no rotating parts (fans, HDD)
- Self-diagnosis using ORCLA (available soon)
Optimum flexibility for adaptation to the machine
- Flexible mounting (DIN rail, wall mounting, portrait mounting, desktop mounting, VESA mounting)
- In all vertical installation positions
- Minimal space requirements (installation volume approx. 0.4 liters; integrated 24 V DC industrial power supply)
- Up to 55°C ambient temperature; dust protection due to closed enclosure
- LEDs for efficient self-diagnostics; optimized for headless operation
High investment security in order to reduce engineering costs
- Long-term availability: Service & Support period of 8 – 10 years after market launch
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