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As the industrial computing market goes through a significant shift, moving to the edge and beyond PACs, industrial displays must evolve fast to keep up. The traditional piecemeal approach to displays, where suppliers only offer certain size displays with certain capabilities and certifications so that users must constantly compromise, no longer works in today’s applications. The industrial computing market is demanding a seamless experience in industrial PCs.

There are essentially four types of industrial displays – operator interfaces, industrial monitors, panel PCs, and web panels. Operator interfaces are a significant part of the industrial display market, but fill a unique function with their locked down, proprietary interfaces for connecting with control products, and runtime screens programmable by the user. Generally, operating on a single machine with predetermined functionality, operator interfaces are an essential part of the move to Edge computing but comprise a market of their own.

That’s not to say, however, that users of operator interfaces don’t also require the other three categories of displays. They are:

• Industrial monitors – these devices are generally used to increase the number of displays on existing systems; they provide visualization only, no processing
• Web panels – provides web-hosted applications in industrial settings
• Panel PCs – generally operating as multiple, connected machines, panel PCs provide full operating systems with open functionality

While operator interfaces are widely used in the power, water & wastewater, and machine builders markets, there are few markets that don’t employ a combination of industrial displays.

From oil and gas to medical, the demands of these markets are continuously being forced to change in favor of modularity, integration and customization. When a user needs a 15-inch display that’s sunlight-readable with a 1000 Nit rating, they don’t want to hear “Well, I may have it in 7-inch.”

In the past it’s been unusual for any supplier to provide the full range of industrial displays with every size and form factor available with all required certifications and capabilities. That has changed. Emerson has re-thought industrial displays from the ground up. Instead of adapting old models to fit a particular application, we’ve created a fully integrated, modular family of industrial displays.

The new RXi family offers new benefits to meet new demands:

• Provides the same look and feel across the entire RXi family of industrial display devices to create the Definitive Industrial Display Experience and ease of training
• Maximize performance, visual capability, and environmental flexibility while minimizing costs to provide the optimal display for the user’s specific application
• Uses a modular approach to increase serviceability and ease of upgrade in the field

In future blogs, we’ll discuss many of the unique features of the RXi displays. Watch for more information on:

• Sunlight-readable screens
• Security from the bottom up
• Best in class temperature range
• Strong environmental ratings and certifications for marine and hazardous conditions
• Daisy-chaining capability
• Modularity that allows a single set of screens to be used in multiple applications

There’s a lot to be said and we plan to say it! Meanwhile, what questions can we answer?

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