Industrial Computer Enclosure – Selecting Your Enclosure

Industrial computer enclosures are now the preferred choice for industrial IT implementation. They are reasonably inexpensive, offer protection for all potential hazardous environments, flexible; units can be interchanged within them, and will lengthen the life of any IT equipment enclosed. Printers, monitors, touch screens, computer towers, desktop PC’s,, keyboards, TV’s, clocks and any other sensitive […]

40 Years Old but Has the Mouse had its Day? Touchscreens the New Input Device.

In December 1968 at a computer network presentation in San Francisco, Doug Engelbart from the Stanford research Institute unveiled his prototype input device. Made of wood with wheels from a toy car the device was nicknamed by one of Engelbart’s researchers as the ‘mouse’ a name that stuck for over forty years. It did take […]

Global Economic Crisis – Save Money and Protect Investment

Belts are tightening, budgets are being slashed and some companies are being forced to make redundancies but there are other measures that can be taken to save money. IT and computers is now one of industry and businesses’ biggest spends. Tens of billions each year is spent by industry and business on IT and computers […]

Why Buy an Industrial Computer?

Automation of production lines is an effective method of increasing productivity, increasing efficiency, reducing cost and reducing waste; essential in the current financial climate. When it comes to computers, monitors, printers, touchscreens and the other types of sensitive electronics, then there are many areas in industrial processes that are not suitable. Dust, dirt, heavy impacts […]

Who Uses Industrial Computer Enclosures?

Industrial computer enclosures are utilised by tens of thousands of businesses interested in protecting their IT investments in hostile areas. Whilst we are used to seeing computers in our offices and homes, the digital revolution has impacted the industrial and manufacturing sector as well. Computers, touch screen monitors and printers are now a prerequisite for […]

Dust and IP54 Protection

Dust is prevalent in many workplaces. It is not necessarily a lack of good housekeeping that can cause a build up of dust but processes in industrial applications in particular generate lots of dust. Dust has terrible consequences for people’s health but it can also have other hidden dangers as well as being highly damaging […]

Body Armour Protects Avon and Somerset PC from Angry Attack

Whilst police constables in most forces are now equipped with body armour, Avon and Somerset Police are using it to protect another type of PC – their computers. The force has installed Armagard’s Penc 300 compact computer enclosure in custody suites to protect their valuable new computer equipment and it has already withstood an attack. […]

Why an Armagard Enclosure?

Why indeed, after all, isn’t a computer enclosure just a metal box? Well that is what many of our competitors believe and mass produce clumsy steel cases and sell them as industrial computer enclosures. However, here at Armagard we pride ourselves on our engineering prowess, after all with over two decades of experience designing and […]

Industrial Computer: Coping With Water

Computers are now as essential a part of production lines as they are in office environments. A computer running a production line will save money, increase efficiency and reduce waste. Unfortunately many production lines are unsuited for the delicate electronics of a computer. Not only can production lines be dirty and full of dust many […]

Industrial PC – Coping with Dustproof Environments

Computers are now an integral part of almost every aspect of business. No longer are computers the prerequisite of office environments as computers are now charged with controlling all types of processes in all types of areas. Production lines, goods-in, despatch and packing areas are all areas where computers are used as part of an […]