FOCUS FEATURE PLCs, Industrial PCs & HMIs
To CNC or to PLC: that is no longer the question
In this article Barry Weller, product manager at Mitsubishi Electric, looks at how to simplify the control architecture of cartesian coordinate robots.
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and manufacture projected capacitive user interfaces that combine a “traditional” dynamic touch area with surrounding capacitive keys. Named ZyBrid, and based upon Zytronic’s
multi-touch capable, projected capacitive technology (MPCT), this latest development opens up new opportunities to improve and enhance the design of human interface devices (HID) for a wide range of applications that prove challenging to conventional approaches. While touchscreens provide an intuitive and
flexible interface, incorporating a large display into a control panel can add significant cost and weight compared to conventional mechanical controls, whilst also increasing the unit’s power consumption, none of which is desirable.
Zytronic’s ZyBrid solution allows a touch display of an appropriately small size to be paired with non-mechanical printed and fixed keys in the same glass surface. This approach has the added benefit of creating a seamless, completely sealable user interface, with no holes or gaps to trap dirt or allow liquid ingress. Zytronic’s patented projected capacitive touch
technology will detect multiple simultaneous fingers, conductive styli and even gloved or dirty hands, through glass thicknesses of 10mm or more. In doing so, it ignores raindrops, leaves, dirt, ice and other debris that can ‘fool’
other touch solutions. As a result, ZyBrid is suited to use both indoors and outdoors. Working closely with customers, the touch
interface is designed, glass is cut, printed and thermally toughened in-house, and then Zytronic’s electronics engineers customise the firmware per the client request, defining the key function and output protocol. ZyBrid solution is ideally suited to a wide
range of applications, even ones that may be subjected to vibration, shock and dirt from the operator’s hands. Other areas that benefit from the sealed nature of the seamless, glass-to- glass edged design is food processing and medical industries where hygienic design is of primary importance.
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