Monday, September 17, 2012

Durable Computers in Airport Construction

By Allyson Westcot


The construction industry is one in which rugged technology can give many benefits. Almost every piece of gear used during construction must be rugged. Construction sites are unclean, dusty and full of vibration. A delicate laptop computer would suffer problems quickly in this type of environment.

That's why the corporations in control of building Runway D, the 4th runway at Tokyo International Airport, used Panasonic rugged computers to help contractors identify the thickness of the soil underneath their apparatus.

A roller that vibrates heavily is used to help decide the soil thickness. A regular laptop employed in this gear would've had to withstand that constant, hard vibration. Durable computers are designed to handle this, while a regular laptop isn't. The vibration would likely have spoiled the hard drives in standard laptops in no time at all. But the sturdy computers from Panasonic that were mounted in the cabs of these rollers were used to record the info gleaned from the equipment.

These rollers can basically create a G-force fo up to 8 from the vibrations, a condition that would kill a normal laptop PC. But thanks to the Toughbooks, the quality control checks were able to be done with technology instead of manually, shortening the whole process and lightening the workload for the individuals concerned. They were also employed in survey vehicles which helped take other measurements.

Thanks to rugged technology, a lot more of the tasks in construction, like the examples from the runway, can be done with laptops. That makes the work more efficient and more correct, which not only saves time but money. More gets done in a shorter time period, and that will cut the needed budget right away. Because the information gleaned from technology instead of from manual methods like surveys is normally more accurate, that cuts costs of redoing things or fixing mistakes later. Not only is that cheaper, it's safer.




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