PCs stir reliability, real-time concerns
- ed.
While pre-Christmas price wars regularly boost personal computer sales this time of year, price cuts alone won`t cause process control systems designers to open their wallets and buy PCs. User studies and user feedback to process control equipment suppliers show several other issues continue to rank higher than price including: (1) Hardware and software reliability; (2) easy-to-use user interfaces; (3) ability to do multitasking; (4) need for real-time updates. These and several other non-price issues - including open versus proprietary systems, slower scan rates from PCs compared to programmable controllers, and assurances that the PC will work in an industrial environment - scored high in a study authored earlier this year by Jesse Yoder, owner of Idea Network, Clinton, NJ. The report, titled {open_quotes}The World Market for Process Control Equipment,{close_quotes} was written for FIND/SVP, a New York City market research firm.
- OSTI ID:
- 486439
- Journal Information:
- InTech, Vol. 41, Issue 11; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Commercial Building Technology Demonstration (Final Scientific/Technical Report)
Specifying energy efficiency to stimulate the market - the US Federal Government