SCADA has turned from dust to shape in the last 10 years with revolutionizing the way metrics and reading was taken by laborers in the various industrial shifts working day and night in the risky environments and above all without any fixed time schedules. The whole process of monitoring the system is a crucial thing to do. The industrial systems that help setup, measuring devices, and building software that turns the measurements into readable information on a screen, also has to be able to convert into actions. These actions need to be triggered automatically, as much as possible, while still needing a human supervisor. Also, some of these actions need to be triggered explicitly by humans based on their expert domain knowledge.
The sense of touch
There have been major advancements in the digital era with Macs and iPads coming with touch-based input screens. They are big and huge display surface which helps in running design software and visualize them simultaneously very easy and smart. Although you can still use SCADA software on today's smart phones and tablets via their web interface, a lot of PC touch screen based front-end panels also need to be installed on-site so that the measurements can be directly read without any delay. These are called PC loggers that log the data directly and feed it to the storage device offering a tangible panel in front of you to trigger an action using the touch screen. These monitors need to be industry grade capable of shocks, dust and dirt and still function.
The sense of touch
There have been major advancements in the digital era with Macs and iPads coming with touch-based input screens. They are big and huge display surface which helps in running design software and visualize them simultaneously very easy and smart. Although you can still use SCADA software on today's smart phones and tablets via their web interface, a lot of PC touch screen based front-end panels also need to be installed on-site so that the measurements can be directly read without any delay. These are called PC loggers that log the data directly and feed it to the storage device offering a tangible panel in front of you to trigger an action using the touch screen. These monitors need to be industry grade capable of shocks, dust and dirt and still function.