All the laptops and desktops that are fopund in homes and offices are cerrtainly not made to cope with a tough environment and their use in an industrial enviroonment. The best cohice is to go for a specially designed industrial computer that will be able to cope easilly with togh conditions and continuous use in dirt and outdoors conditions. This not only mean that the shell of the computer will be able to deal with that tough evnironment, but it also means that what is inside the device like the motherboard and other parts of the device will be able to last for as long as possble in an industrial or manufacturing envirtonment. The same applies for screens. You can now easily find industiral touch screebns or industrial LCD monnitors that are perfectrly fitted for such a tough environment.
Indusrtial LCD mponitors actually are panel mounted monitors and usually used with an industrial rack mount coomputer. These mointors are usually available at differernt size. It will usually be around ten, fifteen, and eighteeen or even twenty inch size display. You could think that every piece of the industrial copmuter will be big and heavy but you are actually wrong. More and more indusstrial computer parts are slim and light. With srceens as slim as only three inches and a small wreight of no more than three kilgrams, they quiite easily fit in any industrial LCD monitor panel.
A rack mounted coomputer on the otehr hand, can be mounted as a separate element in a nineteen inches rack or embedded in an industrial device, with the possibility of having industriial touch screens mounted as well with it.
The common mice and keyboard used at home or in an offiec would certainly not be able to cope with an envitronment as tough as the one encountyered in a plant for instance. They would not be able to deal with the dirt, liquids and other elements found in an industrial environment. That is why it will alays be better to use a so called industrial mouse and an industrial keyboard that is specially made to withstand harsh conditions found in an industrial environment. Those mice wopuld usualkly be made of stainless steel and heavy rubber that will be completely sealeed to make sure no dirt or liquid can get in the deice. Most industrial mice are actually now comlpletely submersible and do not fear the contacct with liquids of any sort.