Operators find integrated data collection solutions in new handheld PC technology.
Imagine this: a data collection technology that integrates all of the capabilities you ever have wanted in single handheld unit. According to Paul Iannello, president of I&R Partners LLC (White House, TN), this is not some futuristic data collection scenario. "When SPC (statistical process control) techniques entered the scene about 30 years ago, manufacturers typically recorded measurements and wrote them down or keyed them into a dedicated SPC data collector for analysis. Today, that approach is all but dead, in large part because the personal computer has become smaller, faster, more powerful and less costly."