A lot of industrial company’s have a requirement for a tough PC that fit to an IP protection class against water, dust or other.
Most Thin Client Vendor’s can not provide this but there are 3rd party vendors that offer solutions like that. If you’re looking for a solution like that i can recommend two vendor’s at the moment:
1) Forsis http://www.forsis.de
2) DLog http://www.dlog.com with the MTC 6
Both vendors are using the IGEL Linux which perfectly fit’s into a existing thin client environment incl. the management solution from IGEL.
Cheers
Michael