|
by Mark Halper, ME Editorial Staff Posted on Friday, April 25, 2008 2:37:34 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | With its DigiDesk touch screen surface computer, Microsoft plans to bring real-time production management to the fingertips of plant managers everywhere. |
| Keywords: | Microsoft future factory, future factory |
HANNOVER, GERMANY — Here at Hannover Fair this week, Microsoft provided a futuristic glimpse of how a production executive might use a flashy, card-table-sized touch screen to virtually walk around a factory floor and orchestrate production changes based on factory floor realities and market information fed by an enterprise software system.
The software giant quietly demonstrated a prototype of its DigiDesk “surface” computer, the first time it has shown the highly interactive, integrated, and keyboard-free system to the public. The company had previously demonstrated DigiDesk privately at Microsoft conferences.
“DigiDesk lets people interact with data in a much richer context,” said Chris Colyer, Microsoft’s worldwide director of manufacturing operations.
[Click to continue] |
|
|
|
|