Industrial touch screens are very common in the technological era. Of course, there are many benefits, especially in efficiency, which has improved a lot. Now various industries are constantly developing and require more mechanical equipment. Therefore, these industrial touch screens involve a range of industries. Broad, outdoor billboards, or some computer display screens.
Touch-screen computers and non-touch-screen computers are not a competitive relationship, but an alternative relationship. Just like all product upgrades. But this replacement process is also relatively long. The reason is that the original inventory of manufacturers is difficult to digest in a short time and the relatively low price of non-touch screen computers has caused a certain amount of demand. Therefore, the sales of non-touch screen computers on the market still occupy more than 63% of the market. Share. However, when all manufacturers devote themselves to touch-screen computers, more inexpensive touch-screen computers will usher in, and the market share of non-touch-screen computers will decline sharply.
In the field of industrial computers, capacitive touch is expected to replace resistive touch on a large scale and become the mainstream of the industry. Although resistive touch has occupied a large market share with its cost advantage so far, the cost of capacitive touch is decreasing at a rate of about 20% every year. Soon the cost of capacitive touch will be close to the cost of resistive touch, and capacitive touch has a large range. It is almost inevitable to replace resistive touch.
In terms of industrial electronic products, such as cash registers, ATMs, POS, medical instrument panels, electronic bulletin boards, and other electronic products with different usage scenarios, the most suitable technologies are also different. Mainly consider the panel size and environmental adaptability. For example, industrial computers need to solve the glove problem, and medical applications often require pen-controlled input, which is demanding and is not suitable for resistive type. As for other touch panel technologies, such as electromagnetic surface-capacitive type, embedded light detection type, optical imaging type, etc., most of them cannot form a competitive advantage in the short term due to cost and yield or usage scenarios.
Competitiveness lies in cost control and improved experience. At present, in the entire capacitive touch industry chain, everyone’s goal is to reduce costs, make prices close to the generally acceptable price point for consumers, and make capacitive touch products explosive growth stage.