Industrial Tablets

[2ffat]

Has anyone seen a demo of tablet PC that will work in an industrial setting? One that has a hardened case, sealable ports, etc.

James P. Cottingham

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[franklin97355]

There are industrial grade tablet PC's out there but not from Microsoft.

 

[mkeith]

There are many industrial units running Microsoft OSs out there. We have multiple installations in industrial settings with tablet computers. A few questions can determine how hardened you need the tablet to be.

Extremely hardened devices (NEMA or IC-xx specs) are usually running Pocket PC/Windows CE because these units have solid state storage.

Moderately hardened tablet PCs are available and work quite well in dirty industrial environments. Rule of thumb - if laptops can to out to the industrial floor, then a tablet PC should survive pretty well - tablet PC's have fewer moving parts and no keyboard.

 

[cyberdoc84]

check out Xplore Technologies' product iX104 ruggedized TPC at

http://www.xploretech.com/ix104/iX104.html