Touch panels replace proprietary interfaces
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Sep 13, 2005
Wonderware has developed a new and expanded hardware platform design for its industrial touch panel computers.
Wonderware, an operating unit of Invensys Systems, and whose products are distributed and supported throughout the UK and Ireland by Stockport based Pantek, has announced a new and expanded hardware platform design for its industrial touch panel computers.
The Series B touch panel computers, which come bundled with Wonderware's InTouch HMI (human-machine interface) software, now offer a larger variety of screen sises and feature a reduction of the number of moving parts for enhanced reliability.
Wonderware's touch panel computers are designed to replace proprietary operator interface panels.
The computers incorporate a fanless hardware design that is smaller in sise and has been enhanced for faster performance.
The hardware also has been industrialised to operate in harsher conditions.
With greater video bandwidth and larger memory capacities, these bundled touch panel computers are optimised for excellent HMI performance and visualisation, and are designed to support industry standards-based, ArchestrA technology.
"Series B's new hardware platform is designed to provide Wonderware customers the highest level of operation and reliability on the factory floor", said Ann Ke, Wonderware's Product Marketing Manager for Wonderware Industrial Tablets and Touch Panel Computers.
"The enhanced industrialised design enables these systems to work in the toughest environments and empowers customers to replace proprietary, stand-alone hardware terminals with networked PC-based HMI applications".
"Customers can use the same software consistently across all plant and control room devices at an extraordinary value".
Wonderware's Series B touch panels have a modular structure that incorporates a separate monitor and CPU for flexibility and versatility.
The touch panels also are detachable, facilitating easy maintenance via quick connections between the display and the computer.
Series B offerings include 10, 12, 15 and 17in displays, which are interchangeable with various CPUs.
This interchangeability of parts eliminates the need for customers to maintain extensive spare parts inventories, thereby reducing overall maintenance costs.
Wonderware's Series B touch panel computers combine ruggedised hardware with the powerful InTouch HMI software to provide a total solution for supervising and managing production processes.
"The convenient bundled package provides Wonderware customers a functional HMI system right out of the box and a single source for both hardware and software support", Ke said.
For added reliability, Wonderware offers an optional solid-state drive running on the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system.
The solid-state drive provides the functionality of a hard disk with no moving parts.
It is an ideal, rugged storage solution for mission-critical applications that must operate under extreme environmental conditions.
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