Solutions for the Factory Shop Floor
The common requirements are:
- Rugged housing: something that can take abuse.
- Protection from dirt: from light dust to oils and chemicals.
- Reliable input: keyboards and mouse/touch that keep working.
- Reliable operation: remote computer and thin client methods that tolerate interruptions.
- Small footprint: take up a minimum of valuable space.
Choosing a Solution
Choose the Modular Workstation (MWS) line if you need:
- a particularly rugged housing.
- your own brand name (book-size) computer or thin client inside.
- an integrated UPS.
- a wheeled base to move it around.
- automation components in the same cabinet.
Choose the Industrial PC (IPC) line if you need:
- the smallest possible workstation.
- a low-cost integrated keyboard.
- a built-in thin client at minimum cost.
- higly adjustable workstation position.
- a mobile solution in conventional trucks.
- free-standing digital signage or light duty kiosks.
- a display only, no computer.
Case Studies (under construction, please check back soon)
- Stainless tube manufacture: Basic MWS cabinets and thin clients beside the processing line.
- Steel processing plant: IPC thin clients operating iSeries screens beside steel processing lines.
- Boiler house control: MWS operated as a NEMA-4 touch screen KVM terminal with push-button controls to operate a mining boiler house.
- Parts manufacture label printing: MWS on trolley base with label printer, operated as a full Windows computer to print labels through 2 printers and accept bar code scanners and firewire cameras.
