TECHWARE BENEFITS

ADVANTAGES OF A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE

Many years ago, touchscreens were an exotic, expensive interface for demanding applications like air-traffic and nuclear power-plant control. Not anymore! Companies across a broad spectrum of industries have successfully harnessed the power of touch for a wide variety of applications. Yet the essential benefits provided by touch technology remain unchanged.

Touch Makes Everyone an Expert

Reaching out for what you want is an instinctive gesture. Using touch is just as simple: you simply point at what you want. Although some people still shy away from computer keyboards, mice, or trackballs, there is no hesitation when they can just touch a screen. Users feel comfortable that they cannot “do anything wrong”; they instinctively understand how to use the interface. Touchscreen systems make everyone an “expert user” from the first touch-whether it’s a person consulting a kiosk, a worker controlling an industrial process, a nurse entering a patient’s information, or a waiter entering an order.

Reduced Costs

Using a touch interface can effectively increase operator accuracy, reduce training time, and improve overall operational efficiencies, thus keeping costs down. In the retail environment, for example, a properly designed touch interface can improve each operator’s accuracy, while maintaining optimum checkout speeds. Users can respond quickly without making significant errors. Also, touch-based point-of-sale (POS) systems streamline the returns and refunds process by reducing the time it takes a customer to return merchandise; they also improve loss-prevention management. In addition, compared to traditional training methods, using touchscreens can drastically reduce training time, since touch technology is intuitive and requires no special skills to learn. Moreover, the flexibility of touch technology can significantly contribute to cost reductions: it creates operational efficiencies by simplifying procedures and reduces the need for additional capital investment.

Compact and Handy

Space is valuable, so you want to use it as efficiently as possible. Touchmonitors ensure that no space-on the desktop or elsewhere-is wasted, since the input device is completely integrated into the display. Flat LCD touchmonitors help save even more space. And there are no keyboard or mouse cords in front of the monitor to get tangled or damaged, or to gather dust.

Durable and Easy to Clean

A touchscreen is made of glass or a similar hard-coated surface. So it’s easy to clean and therefore extremely well suited for the typical environments found in restaurants, hospitals, and the food and pharmaceutical industries. All Elo touchscreens can be used with gloves, which is great for applications where hygiene is particularly important or where temperature or workplace safety rules require the use of gloves. We offer touchscreen systems that are not affected by dirt, dust, grease, or liquid droplets. They are even rugged enough to stand up to harsh environments where keyboards and mice often get damaged.

When Ease of Use Is Required

Touchscreen-based systems virtually eliminate errors because users select from clearly defined menus. The information on each screen is limited in number and options, thus providing step-by-step, fail-safe sequences to guide the user through complex procedures. This greatly simplifies medical diagnostics applications-for example, where voluminous databases must be accessed quickly and easily. Touchscreens are also useful in simplifying process-control applications involving many buttons or switches, and for applications where system contents require protection from unauthorized entry