A water proof keyboard is essential as you well know if you have ever visited a manufacturing facility, even a general manufacturer has masses of dust on the production line and if a ordinary keyboard was used, this would without doubt be destroyed by the grime on the production area.

This is why an industrialized keyboard requires to be a little more than a keyboard, let us go back a step. In hazardous areas where chemicals are the staff wear thick rubber gloves to protect them from any possible chemical spill, so imagine the trouble using a keyboard and then a mouse with these cumbersome gloves, there is only one solution and that is a keyboard that has an inbuilt water proof mouse.

The uses for this sort of keyboard is unending, they can even be used submersed in water so are just the thing for food manufacturing plants.

Just like any ordinary computer keyboard they are obtainable in either PS2 or USB connectors and if the manufacturing unit has any PC} or computer enclosure on the manufacturing floor they can easily and easily be mounted into the PC cabinet.

Now you know that there is a device for protecting a keyboard and the expenses are very low compared to the industrial NEMA 4X and IP65 keyboards, the motive why these are more cost effective is that they are watertight with a rubberized coating where as the industrial keyboards are made from steel and powder coated. The other advantage is that they are swiftly available whilst normal industrial IP65 keyboards cost over 14 times the cost they are also on a 3-6 week lead time.

Lots of manufacturing factories have discovered over time and the only correct solution is to defend any electronic information system hardware that is to go in a facility, this has a two fold effect, the loss to the factory for down time is reduced considerably if the machinery is computerized, as most if not all the workstation will be in a Computer enclosure, with a pullout tray for the input device that will store a water proof keyboard, below this segment would be either a stand or a lower printer enclosure, these are for almost any brand of printer from HP network printers through to thermal printers such as Zebra and Intermec for example.