A Touch of Control?

All of the automation in our plant already has touch screens and they have been there for a while. I thought that was already the norm.

Dan

Already in about 1993 the British made PSION palmtop 3A and then the 3C and then the Revo Plus followed by the PSION 7 all had touch screens. Excellent machines that became extinct in around 2007. Now we are using touch screens from other manufacturers since 2003 on offshore platforms inside the control room and outside for "unit controls". One has to be extremely careful applying this technology in a plant. Discipline by operators (and more importantly by visitors) has to be 101% otherwise the plant will malfunction due to "sticky fingers", as is the case with exposed ESD push buttons in lax plants. Steve Jobs is behind all the developments at Apple (including the GUI application) and I wish him speedy recovery from his very risky operation, so he may innovate intelligently for many years to come. It is a joy to watch him and his team elegantly create as compared to the "slog" of the competition. Bill

We have a cool "touch screen" here which works with a projection screen. Figure that one out. The image is projected on a wall and you just touch the wall to select something. Really strange feeling, just touch the wall and the display changes, no electrical connection to the wall whatever...