White Paper: Choosing the Optimum Operator Interface, from Pro-face
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March 2, 2009
White Paper: Choosing the Optimum Operator Interface, from Pro-face
Find out the answer to the
question: which is better — an open computer system or a closed one?
Without hesitation, 9 out of 10 computer savvy consumers will say
“open.” This response is the result of nearly 30 years of PC
development during which the hardware has been open and the various
Microsoft operating systems have been de-facto open.
The open system has created high performance, relatively low-cost hardware, and masses of third-party software running on Microsoft operating systems.
Most
people tend to take the “open system is good” attitude with them to
work. When their work involves manufacturing or processing,
consumer-side assumptions should stop at the entrance of the plant.
Once across that threshold, openness equates to general purpose, and
closed — dedicated — means lowest lifecycle cost and highest
performance.
To understand the reasons for this shift in the
relative merits of open versus closed, it is important to first of all
describe the technical differences in today’s industrial operator
interface products. Then it will be easier to determine which operator
interface products are right for an application on a machine, line,
plant, or for the enterprise.
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