Displays

Advantech has announced the introduction of its XDF-31 FLEX range of open frame low power HD LED touchscreen monitors. Offering all popular screen sizes from 10.1 to 32 inch, the series has been designed with ease of integration into the customer’s housing as a top priority.

Helping designers meet functional safety requirements in touch screen enabled appliances, Microchip Technology has announced its maXTouch MXT336UD-MAUHA1 capacitive touchscreen controller family.

WIN Enterprises has announced the PL-50180, a high performance industrial touchscreen PC. The device features robust processing and connectivity from production Edge to the Cloud with Serial, GbE LAN, and USB ports.

The healthcare sector is constantly changing – and there is no time this has been truer than now. Touchscreens are a key part of how this change is occurring in the healthcare sector; here Zytronic has looked at some of the major ways touchscreen technology is impacting healthcare and discovered the following.

Bridgetek has made further announcements relating to its embedded video engine (EVE technology) platform. The BT817 and BT818 represent the company’s fourth generation of EVE products, and follow the already established mantra of helping those with little or no relevant prior experience to build advanced HMIs with high degrees of differentiation.

Outdoor lighting group CU Phosco Lighting has invested in the latest mobile workforce management technology from Leeds-based BigChange. With engineers equipped with rugged tablets running the JobWatch mobile app, the five in one cloud-based system provides real time synchronisation between the office and field service operations as part of what will be a completely paperless, end-to-end business solution.  

IDEC has introduced the new 4.3” LCD screen size HG1P handheld HMI (human-machine interface). This lightweight and robust HMI is the right-sized way to enhance operator interactions for automated machine tending and robotics applications, and it is the most cost-effective device of its type.

Touch technology innovator Zytronic has released a contactless sensing option that can detect user interactions up to 30mm away from the surface of the glass. Based upon the company’s fully customisable ZyBrid touch sensors, and developed entirely at its UK R&D and manufacturing facility, ZyBrid hover has been designed to assist manufacturers of self-service kiosks in their efforts to reassure customers nervous about touching ...

KOE (Kaohsiung Opto-Electronics) has announced the introduction of a two new 8.0” Rugged+ TFT display modules. The new TX20D208VM0BAA and TX20D208VM0BAB TFT displays feature WVGA resolution (800x480px), a wide 16:9 aspect ratio, in-plane switching (IPS) provides exceptional optical performance. These two new modules enhance a comprehensive product range of 8.0” TFT displays currently available from KOE.

Crystal Display has announced a new display range of LCD monitors, HALO, with a slimmer design. Another niche display offering from CDS, originally developed for the gaming market, but has uses in a range of applications.