Industrial Tablet PC Market Trends

• The transport and logistics industry is observing an exponential growth of omnichannel shopping, and the high demand for faster product deliveries is redefining the supply chain distribution of consumer goods. There is an unprecedented change in shopping across multiple platforms, such as desktops and mobile devices, and stores have created the need for smarter warehouse management to serve consumers.
• With high-performance, rugged handheld tablet PCs, transportation and logistics tasks can be accomplished efficiently, quickly, and securely. Rugged tablets guarantee real-time communication and feedback, proper resource utilization, and staff management. The e-commerce industry has been a crucial beneficiary of industrial tablet PCs. For instance, India had the third-largest online shopper base of 150 million in FY last year, after China and the United States, as per the Indian Brand Equity Foundation report. Such developments in the e-commerce segment are expected to increase the demand for industrial tablets for warehouse storage management over the forecast period.
• Passenger tracking and monitoring are crucial in the transportation industry and are monitored through rugged tablet PCs. Passenger tracking helps to understand the number of passengers traveling on a particular route daily. As a result, fleet managers can more easily allocate the appropriate number of motor vehicles that can best serve a specific purpose.
• In transportation and supply chain applications, rugged display tablets are used for multiple use cases like RFID and barcode scanning, credit card processing, management of retaining inventory, storage, exchange, line busting, mPOS, promotion tracking, NFC transactions, customer feedback gathering, and so on. The growing number of warehouses and increasing investment in advanced logistic centers expand the studied market's scope.

The COVID-19 pandemic had also hampered the production of rugged displays, a significant component of industrial tablets. The lockdown imposed in several countries to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus caused disruptions in the global supply chain of the parts and components used in these devices. The halting of production and disorder in the supply chain have weakened industrial output growth and decreased activities across significant manufacturing hubs.