The Allen-Bradley 6180P-15BPXP is a VersaView Plus series industrial computer that includes a keypad and a touchscreen. It is a performance package computer with a 15-inch screen that has a display area of 12 x 9 inches and an aspect ratio of 4:3. The screen is a 256K color active matrix thin film transistor (TFT) touchscreen that has a resolution of 1024 x 768 and a 20 ms response time. Its viewing angles are up to 60 Degrees, horizontal and 40 Degrees, Vertical. An antiglare shield may be added. The keypad of the 6180P-15BPXP computer consists of alphanumeric keys and 44 function keys. This computer is panel mounted using an IEC IP66 mount and has an approximate measurement of 13.97 x 19.01 x 8.86 inches and weight of 38.8 lbs.

This AC-powered computer has an input voltage of 90-264V AC that is auto switching and comes with a 47-63 Hz line frequency. Its power dissipation is 144 W and it also has a power consumption of 144 VA (1.4A at 100V RMS, 0.6A at 24V at RMS). Without condensation, the 6180P-15BPXP’s operating relative humidity is 20-85% at up to 40 Degree Celsius and the humidity derates to 45% at 50 Degree Celsius. The non-operating relative humidity is 5-90% at up to 40o C and this humidity also derates to 39% at 60 Degree Celsius. The 6180P-15BPXP’s operating temperature ranges from 0 to 55 Degree Celsius and the non-operating temperature ranges from -20-60 Degree Celsius. The non-operating vibration is 2g and the operating vibration is 1g. The operating shock is 15g (half-sine at 11 ms) and non-operating shock is 30g (also half-sine at 11 ms).

The operating system of the 6180P-15BPXP computer is Windows XP Professional, its processor is a Core Duo with a speed of 2 GHz, and the system’s chipset is an Intel 945GME. This computer has 2 dual-channel DDR II, DIMM slots available where you can install up to 2 GB of RAM per slot, for a maximum of 4 GB of memory. The expansion slots available with this computer are 1 full-length ISA slot and 2 full-length and 1 half-length 5V I/O PCI 2.2 slot. It also comes with I/O ports, specifically 1 DVI port, 1 parallel port, 2 serial ports, 2 front USB ports, and 4 rear USB ports. The computer’s 3 audio jacks are a line-in jack, a line-out jack, and a microphone jack. The 2 RJ45 Ethernet LAN ports have port speeds of 10/100/1000 Mbps and the drives are a hot-swappable 160 GB, 3.5-inch hard disk drive that has a SATA interface, a floppy disk drive, and a slim DVD-RW optical disc drive. The available status indicators are HDD/ODD/FDD activity, NumLock, Caps Lock, and power/standby. The 6180P-15BPXP computer has 2 chassis fans, a processor heat sink, and a PSU fan to aid in cooling.

This industrial computer is especially designed to be installed near the application or to a central location of the factory. It may act as an industrial workstation, particularly operator or engineering workstation which can be installed with Allen-Bradley industrial softwares or 3rd party applications as well. With the pre-installed Microsoft Windows XP SP3 operating system, a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) software, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) software may be installed, enabling remote monitoring, control, programming and maintenance of the connected process.

The 6180P-15BPXP is equipped with a 3.5-inch, SATA interface Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with 160 GB storage capacity and supports hot-swap feature. It also has a Intel Core Duo processor with system chipset of Intel 945GME. The integrated Random Access Memory (RAM) amounts to 2GB which maybe expanded through the available memory slots that supports up to 4GB total memory. It has a Slim DVD-RW optical drive and I/O interfaces of Two (2) Front USB, Four (4) Rear USB, Two (2) Serial, One (1) DVI and One (1) Parallel ports. For communication with automation devices, it has Two (2) Ethernet I/P communication ports. Speakers and microphones may be connected through the integrated audio jacks.