Depends upon the use and more so, who designed the application. We have
several touch screens in our shop environment and they seem to be holding up
very well.
We have approx 20+ touch screens on our grinding machines to program the
dressing of the wheels. Well designed program by the machine manufacture
and very easy to use.
We have 2 touch screens on specialize gauging. Again, well designed program
by the gage manufacture and very easy to use.
We have 2 touch screens running Progress applications that I wrote for
accessing data out of Vantage. Well designed programs and very easy to use.
I have 1 touch screen running at a centralized Vantage data collection
workstation that no one uses the touch screen, they resort back to the mouse
and keyboard because they find it difficult sometimes to accurately hit some
of the objects.
The touch screen technology has come a long way and they are much better now
a days. All the units we use are on the cheaper side (even though touch
screen are not cheap $400+) so they may not be as accurate as a more
expensive one, but it seems that if the application is designed well, you
can't beat a touch screen. Take a look at most stores and restaurants these
days, you see touch screens everywhere. I recently installed a 15" ELO flat
panel on my brothers home theater system and he is running it at 1024x768
with small fonts and can accurately navigate through all windows to control
everything, but then again that monitor set him back $1300+.
So the question you have to ask yourself, is what will it be used for, and
how easy is it to use the planned application/software with a touch screen.
Would I recommend a touch screen in a shop environment - Yes. Would I
recommend a touch screen to be used with Vantage data collection - No.
Just my .02 cents worth.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Dina Hieber [mailto:
dhieber@...]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 7:40 AM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] Touch screens for Data collection
Tony,
I agree with Dan. We have several data collection centers. We
purchased 3 touch screens and the remainder we used mouse and keypad.
Nobody uses the touch screens.
We had one go bad and I replaced it with a mouse and keypad NOT ONE
person complained.
Best Regards,
Dina Hieber
Vamco International, Inc.
(412) 963-7100 Phone
(412) 963-9511 Fax
-----Original Message-----
From:
dans@... [mailto:
dans@...]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 7:18 AM
To:
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Subject: RE: [Vantage] Touch screens for Data collection
Tony,
We have about 12 data collections screens in the shop, 1 is a touch
screen.
I never see anyone use it.
Guy in the shop says that it can be difficult to add numbers and such
because some of the users have fat fingers.
I would not get another one, people are familiar with mouse and
keyboard.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Topping [mailto:
tony.topping@...]
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:02 PM
To:
vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Touch screens for Data collection
Does anyone use them and recommend using them in a metal fabrication
workshop environment.
Pros and cons appreciated please
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