Flat Panel Monitors Justify Costs
Everyone wants the new thin stylish flat panel monitors instead of fat old CRTs but management demands justification for the expense. Now they have it.
Denver, Colo. June 8, 2005 (PRWEB) June 8, 2005 -- New flat panel LCD
monitors are stylish, contemporary, and make every office look more
professional. While every worker wants an LCD, management demands justification
for the expense of replacing existing CRTs.
Fortunately, there are very
real benefits that result from upgrading to LCDs – benefits that flow directly
to the bottom line. The total cost of ownership is neutralized by a positive
return on investment that can easily exceed 100%. According to major industry
reports, the cost savings incurred by converting to LCDs are:
Space: Real
savings come from more efficient use of the work space. CRTs have hogged the
desktop for over twenty years. The corner workstations that were necessary to
provide a home for the deep CRTs are no longer needed. Workstations can now be
designed and arranged for specific tasks and space requirements. Stations that
are designed with LCDs and a monitor arm can be over 20% smaller, without
sacrificing any functional working area.
Rent: Less space quite simply
means less rent paid. Additional savings can be realized through affiliated
costs such as taxes, maintenance, and janitorial.
Tenant fit-out: Costs
in completing interior tenant construction are reduced in smaller
spaces
Building mechanical and electrical: Reduced energy requirements
allow for downsized major mechanical and electrical requirements of smaller
facilities.
Furniture: Without the bulky CRTs, smaller and less complex
furniture is acceptable for a fully functional workstation.
Energy: Xcel
Energy determined that Flat panel LCD monitors save 60 – 90% in direct
electricity use over CRTs. In addition, due to the substantial reduction in heat
output of the LCDs versus CRTs, there are also lower costs for air conditioning.
Product life span: The average electronic life span of an LCD is
thirteen years versus five years for a CRT. This fact alone offsets price
differentials between CRTs and LCDs.
Cost of disposal:
Eight state
landfills, including California have stopped accepting CRTs because of the lead
content and the costs of disposal are increasing annually.
Health and
safety: According to the American Optometric Association, 90% of users of
existing CRTs suffer from Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS), costing businesses $2
billion a year. Because they do not flicker like CRTs, LCDs greatly alleviate
CVS and associated costs.
As beneficial as they are, flat panel LCD
monitors do not create space saving benefits. Because of the relationship
between the user and the monitor, the front of the screen must be at the same
distance from the user’s eyes as with the CRT, which is in the range of 20 – 26
inches. Simply placing a LCD on the work surface in place of a CRT will not
realize any effective gain in usable work space because the only real space
savings will be directly behind the monitor, which is basically useless.
Transforming space behind a flat panel monitor into usable space can be
accomplished by installing the monitor onto a monitor arm. SpaceCo created a
free floating monitor arm named SpaceArm that not only frees up the work surface
directly under the LCD for other uses, and the monitor can easily be moved back
and out of the way when the user needs full use of the work surface for other
tasks. Articulating monitor arms also increase the ergonomic integrity of the
work space. With SpaceArm’s advanced five axis position adjustment and pneumatic
counterbalance, the height, depth, and tilt angle can be easily adjusted as
desired. The monitor can also be ergonomically adjusted to the correct focal
distance and axis of vision.
With the proven financial benefits of LCD
monitors and the addition of a monitor arm, the question for businesses is not
“Can we afford to upgrade?” but rather “Can we afford not to?”
For more
information, go to www.spaceco.com.
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