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Industrial Display Requirements

In industrial sectors there is a great need for interfaces with instruments and machines along with monitors to review details of how processes are operating. Such displays may include anything and everything from warnings and countdowns to displaying current operating details.

Author: Don Revs
Date: Sep 15, 2011 - 9:14:43 AM

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In industrial sectors there is a great need for interfaces with instruments and machines along with monitors to review details of how processes are operating. Such displays may include anything and everything from warnings and countdowns to displaying current operating details.

Obviously in the majority of industrial operations, PID controllers typically control much of the requirements throughout the industrial plant, but there can of course never be enough fail-safes for 100% assurance and thus display screens are still often needed about plants to give workers the ability to take action and react with the process. Sometimes the only interaction required is to set the predefined limits for operating parameters into the control systems. Frequently controlled parameters can include temperature, pressure and flowrates, but can also extend to parameters like ph and concentration.

Of course in many industrial applications the conditions to which devices are often exposed can be pretty rough requiring the need for specialist design of hardware so that it can persist in such environments. Typically this is heat, chemical, abrasion resistance or some combination of those. Some biological functions make use of bacteria which will be destructive to printed circuit boards for example. In this instance a fully sealed unit pc is required. Which seems simple at first, but most personal computers are cooled down by air, so the temperature needs to be overcome while preserving reliability. This is normally achieved by using a low power system. Low power CPUs like the Intel atom can be optimised at below 20W; a heat load that is very easily dissipated in most climates.

While on the move there can be very diverse requirements, for instance the need for tough laptop computers or tablets. Such computers can be made fantastically robust and tolerant to harsh conditions, notably, dusty environments, damp environments such as on boats or even just locations where they might have a few knocks, for instance out and about on a plant or building site; areas lots of technical engineers work on a daily basis. They also provide the extra benefit of being very good for travel and protecting the information on them, though this isn’t something that is always demanded of them.

Touchscreen display interfaces can be excellent in a lot of these circumstances because the unit can be entirely sealed; as opposed to many key boards or pointing devices (mice) which have many moving pieces, a touchscreen display can have no moving parts and depending upon on the technology used, be protected by a thick sheet of vandal-proof glass with additional protective layers to resist just about any chemical it's needed to. Touchscreens such as this frequently have got embedded computers hooked up with them, making it possible to mount the computer in a variety of locations with wall mounts or even movable hydraulic arms to make the device adjustable.

So when you’re in need of some more rugged displays, take a look at an industrial display website, they can be just what you need.

The author works for a company who provide custom display solutions with TFT displays and LCD screens

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