| All the laptops and desktops that are found in | | | | computer parts are slim and light. With screens as |
| homes and offices are certainly not made to | | | | slim as only three inches and a small weight of no |
| cope with a tough environment and their use in an | | | | more than three kilograms, they quite easily fit in |
| industrial environment. The best choice is to go | | | | any industrial LCD monitor panel. |
| for a specially designed industrial computer that | | | | A rack mounted computer on the other hand, can |
| will be able to cope easily with tough conditions | | | | be mounted as a separate element in a nineteen |
| and continuous use in dirt and outdoors conditions. | | | | inches rack or embedded in an industrial device, |
| This not only mean that the shell of the computer | | | | with the possibility of having industrial touch |
| will be able to deal with that tough environment, | | | | screens mounted as well with it. |
| but it also means that what is inside the device | | | | The common mice and keyboard used at home |
| like the motherboard and other parts of the | | | | or in an office would certainly not be able to cope |
| device will be able to last for as long as possible in | | | | with an environment as tough as the one |
| an industrial or manufacturing environment. The | | | | encountered in a plant for instance. They would |
| same applies for screens. You can now easily find | | | | not be able to deal with the dirt, liquids and other |
| industrial touch screens or industrial LCD monitors | | | | elements found in an industrial environment. That |
| that are perfectly fitted for such a tough | | | | is why it will always be better to use a so called |
| environment. | | | | industrial mouse and an industrial keyboard that is |
| Industrial LCD monitors actually are panel mounted | | | | specially made to withstand harsh conditions found |
| monitors and usually used with an industrial rack | | | | in an industrial environment. Those mice would |
| mount computer. These monitors are usually | | | | usually be made of stainless steel and heavy |
| available at different size. It will usually be around | | | | rubber that will be completely sealed to make |
| ten, fifteen, and eighteen or even twenty inch | | | | sure no dirt or liquid can get in the device. Most |
| size display. You could think that every piece of | | | | industrial mice are actually now completely |
| the industrial computer will be big and heavy but | | | | submersible and do not fear the contact with |
| you are actually wrong. More and more industrial | | | | liquids of any sort. |