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Rugged Industrial Computers For All Seasons

Rugged industrial computers are designed to provide data collection in all kinds of weather and environments. When you think of the outdoor seasons and its weather, you’d come up with rain, snow, sleet, heat and bitter cold. Fixed or vehicle computers are required to take all that punishment. let’s look into each one; Rain, snow [...]

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Wireless Vehicle Computer

A summary on using a wireless vehicle computer with barcoding. Data collection is performed in many environments. Some of these environments require that information be collected while in a mobile location such as car, forklift, truck or just a cart. Of course some or most of these locations are not so PC friendly and would [...]

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Bar Code or Barcode or Barcoding Data Collection

No matter how you spell it, using bar code to collect information is one of the fastest and most accurate technology we can use. A barcode represents information that is static and usually derived from a data base. A good example would be the UPC label you see on all your products at a grocery [...]

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Wireless Data Collection

Wireless data collection is performed using various enabling technologies. The components would consist of: a capturing and storing device such as a mobile data terminal, or vehicle mount computer(VMT), or a handheld computer such as a portable data terminal (PDT) Data scanning ability such as a barcode scanner Optionally, a RFID reader that would collect [...]

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Data Collection 101

Information is all around us. It is in the form of sight (pictures), sound (music), and hand written or printed (paper media). People absorb or interface with information through communications such as television, radio, telephone, books (published media), and now more commonly through the internet. The process of taking information from its pure form into [...]

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Just one Mobile Data Terminal product Now!

After the inaugural release of the Percon Phoenix104 (like rising from the ashes) mobile data terminals, we plan on subsequent release of two new industrial computers with 12.1” and 6.4” displays. Although it appears that screen sizes are just the changes, we are addressing our ability to manufacture according to requested configuration(s). The Percon goal [...]

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What’s a Forklift Computer Do?

Forklift computers are industrial computers designed and manufactured to withstand the constant shock and pounding of a rough terrain vehicle such as a forklift. Operations of a forklift in a warehouse or material movement of a manufacturing plant require a vehicle computer device that can operate effectively and last years without continuous repairs. It may [...]

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Which Industries do Percon Products Fit?

Which industries does Percon plan to concentrate in? Where does our vehicle mount computer product(s) fit? Our initial target and plan is ‘stick” with what we know best; supply chain logistics in manufacturing and wholesale trade. We are also planning on penetrating transportation, oil production, and public safety. In reality, the need of our partners [...]

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Why build another Vehicle Mount Computer?

Why build another vehicle mount computer (VMT)? Motorola, LXE, Psion, AML are already a big player. You’ll have too much competition! That’s a good question that most of our prospects, integrators and resellers are asking us. The answer is two-fold: Today’s big players do provide vehicle mounted computers but they are a “step-child” to their [...]

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Percon is part of Datalogic? Isn’t?

Percon is a separate manufacturing/engineering company and we are not related to Datalogic. PSC purchased Percon in 2000? And the Percon products and employees were merged into PSC. Percon ceased to exist. Datalogic purchased PSC couple years ago and now operate as Datalogic Scanning and Datalogic Mobile. However, Percon has a great history in AIDC. [...]

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Computer training to include exposure to industrial vehicle mount computer

With computer training so widely available in the US and Canada, it’s sometimes hard to decide among all the it training companies and the courses they offer. Here are some tips for choosing the right it training solutions. Tip #1 – Look for a Field Trained Faculty The best IT training contains a balance of [...]

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Advantages of Windows Embedded CE 6.0

Let’s talk a little about the advantages of Windows CE 6.0 R3. It is the latest release from Microsoft. But there are important advantages to the newest version and we will try to shed a little light in this area. Microsoft lists 6 reasons why WinCE 6.0 is superior to 5.0 Process address space is [...]

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IBM and Its Industrial Computer

Shameless Plug from IBM: The Contributor of this Post An industrial PC is always preferable for a variety of industrial applications, based on the search for an X86 computer. An X86 is actually one of the most successful architectures in personal computing and started by the processor than Intel’s 8086th. In order to develop it into [...]

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Understanding the Nema and IP Rating Systems

Contribution by Ujiro Electricity and water do not go together well, as I am sure that most people are aware. But dust is just as bad for electrical components as is water. Dust hangs in the size of tiny dust particles to larger particles that fall and nothing to hold. Dust can also consist of [...]

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Responder Public Safety Equipment

No-Drill Computer Mounts Install Lightning Fast! RAM (our vendor partner) Vehicle Computer Mounts are designed for the most popular cars (police, fire, EMS), forklifts, trucks and fleet vehicles on the road. These heavy-duty steel laptop bases are custom formed to fit specific vehicle models, providing a mounting platform for any RAM Laptop Mounting System. Using [...]

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