| Monitor enclosures are utilized to guard monitors and | | | | So the best form of defense would be put all displays |
| larger LCD displays from harm when they are used | | | | that are on the production line into monitor enclosures, |
| for factory information systems. Without these | | | | these are designed to accommodate both the monitor |
| protective boxes, the factory information system could | | | | and either a small factor computer, thin client or |
| be brought to its knees within minutes. | | | | content player, so all the content can be pulled from a |
| Factory information systems are a very visual part of | | | | source locally, this is why anyone installing SAP or |
| manufacturing life, without them the large televisions | | | | SCADA look at monitor enclosures as important parts |
| and monitors would vanish over night from our | | | | of the chain, without them the project is as useless as |
| production facilities. These displays vary in size from | | | | if it had no software. |
| 17" up to and including 60" LCD displays, these have a | | | | With the lessened of use of CRT TVs, the old |
| high investment cost within a project so they do need | | | | computer enclosures are being decommissioned and |
| to be protected, from everything including dirt, fluid, | | | | being replaced with thin client enclosures, these too |
| truck drivers and heat. | | | | store a flat panel screen and a small computer, |
| Imagine if you had invested $40,000 in a data collection | | | | however with more large monitors being used, this |
| system only to find that the displays go down and | | | | makes using 60" televisions a real option for the |
| have to be swapped out within a matter of weeks of | | | | project team to make the production information |
| commissioning the system, this would not look good for | | | | system a part of the factory environment. |
| the project managers. So one of the best forms of | | | | Monitor enclosures are relatively new to the factory |
| attack is defense (we have all heard that - haven't | | | | floor and will certainly be around for a number of |
| we?) | | | | years before they are replaced. |