A 12-bit machine intended as an industrial controller (PLC).

When he was only 16, he designed an industrial controller based on the Intel 8008 for a nearby company.

Holtek's device application area is heavily concentrated in the consumer product field such as household appliances, computer peripheral products, remote controllers, leisure products, medical equipment etc. as well as industrial controllers.

However, most modern industrial control systems now rely on computers for the industrial controller.

Originally likely designed as the industrial controller, the computer initially had a keyboard completely orthogonally laid out rectangular key caps.

Utilizing a series of dedicated interface devices, it allows PCs and industrial controllers to communicate in a local area network using an RS-485 physical medium utilizing a token passing medium access control.

The KR580VM80A was popular in home computers, computer terminals, industrial controllers.

It can be used for a range of high speed control and logic functions, in workstations, RISC microprocessor motherboards, networking, graphics, industrial controllers.

CompactRIO (or cRIO) is a real-time embedded industrial controller made by National Instruments for industrial control systems.

I understand that a prison is a different animal than a vacuum cleaner plant, but I'd guess the odds are pretty good that the same guy designed/programmed the industrial controllers for both.