Is it acceptable to use arduino in industrial projects?

Question

Arduino

Is it acceptable to use arduino in small series projects to implement lighting control?
From time to time there are non-standard tasks for lighting control at objects. As a rule, these are responsible projects where designers and architects try to realize their Wishlist. A great temptation to realize their wishes on arduino. In the plus - simplicity, speed and low cost of implementation.
But with the minuses - the question.
How reliable are such solutions?
How interference resistant?
How high is the reproducibility of the system on small (up to 500 pieces) series?

Answer 1

I must say right away that I have never used Arduino.
But I have been designing industrial electronics for a quarter of a century. And my devices don't have an off button.
Those. work continuously for months and years.
It is possible or impossible to determine compliance with technical conditions and technical feasibility, and not the name of the platform.
Among those conditions, of course, both temperature and vibration can be negotiated.
Incl. don't listen to horror stories. Act at your own discretion with some regard for someone else's experience, if any.
Be sure to test your device as you work on the project.
If there are doubts about the quality of something, then it is possible to conduct input tests of the components. No one is forcing you to put in the worst components, right? Choose strong middle peasants. Or the best manufacturers.
Solve problems as they come up.

Answer 2

Well, it's like someone ... I have several machines for the chain-link mesh working on the Arduino Nano, and they work fine.

Answer 3

depends on the task and wishes, in general, with a competent approach to the code, the reliability of the code will be on an equal level compared to analogues, about protection against interference and other things, then of course the reliability is lower (the Chinese are different), but in general, expensive industrial solutions are now doing the same Chinese, but more expensive. Arduino has many advantages at the design stage, that is, all Wishlist can be implemented faster than on analogues. But in the industry it is better to go not on arduino scarves, but on full-fledged boards sharpened for a specific task, the wiring of such boards will not be very expensive, and production in batches of up to 500 pieces. It will be cheaper than a whole arduino.

Answer 4

In no case!
You still think about using LabView in serious projects ...

Answer 5

Acceptable, but not cost effective.
The main task of Arduino is prototyping. There is a sense of handicraft production of small batches of devices (up to 50 pieces)

Answer 6

Absolutely pointless and ruthless. It's like from the "Death Star" on germs.
It is better to implement a typical solution. Or, for each order, one-time file what the wishers want.
A typical solution will turn out even cheaper. Further service, if you correctly lay down the elemental base, will not be a circus with horses and an extravaganza of a cow on ice. Plus initially lay IP65.

Answer 7

if this is a small production, then you can use an arduino, a normal controller, it works stably, although it is not interference-resistant, which reduces its efficiency in use in industry, and this is fixable. I have a project assembled on this controller, the controller is installed on the street in the NKU VU switchboard, along with automation and measurement sensors, TI, TS and TU can be executed from the panel or from the upper level via RS485 or via Wi-Fi.
The main thing is to make good noise immunity. My project has been running continuously for more than six months. But! All this costs money, knowledge and effort.
PS You can buy a ready-made solution using the example of ALPHA XL Mitsubishi Electric, a good controller easily programmable in FBD.