Touchscreen design. Food processing grade waterproof panel PCs should have resistive or capacitive touchscreens, with options such as high resolution, LCD lit panels, TFT panels, CCFL backlight, high brightness, wide viewing angle, and a long lifetime. The screen must be able to respond to gloved hands.
Ready for Blockchain
As an article in the January 2019 issue of Food Quality and Safety stated, “The hard work ahead to advance public health protection is much more than instantaneous lot tracking based on distributed ledger technologies (now often and more generically referred to as blockchain) or alternative open-participation traceability platforms.”
An increasing number of processing plants are using blockchain to provide visibility into food traceability. When considering the route that goes from farm-to-table, the processing plant is one link of the supply chain, but a crucial one because of the many processes and exposures that take place as food goes from raw product to packaged goods.
The blockchain is made more robust through the quality of locations and quantity of panel PCs connected to real-time inputs such as scales and scanning guns. As the article pointed out, “of the 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day across all industries, only 1 percent is collected, analyzed, and used.”
The issue goes beyond how are we handling data to what are we missing? Panel PCs are the on-ramp to the blockchain to provide the information necessary to stay on top of the process. Panel PCs give accessibility to mission critical data.
Talking to customers who use panel PCs extensively, they have told me that their ability to implement blockchain is a result of having these devices stationed all along key points in their process. For these and other businesses, the type of panel PC to use is dependent on operational use and environment the computer will be in.
Keeney, who has a degree in technology management from Missouri State University, has worked as a product quality manager for four years. Currently working for Teguar Computers, he frequently consults with product engineers to customize onsite solutions for clients. Reach him at [email protected],
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