A Culture of Continuous Innovation from the TOUGHBOOK CF-31 to the TOUGHBOOK 40

In the near-30 years that Panasonic has been delivering market-leading rugged devices, we have remained steadfastly committed to continuous innovation and developing new solutions at breakneck speed.

That’s reflected in just how quickly customer expectations towards using the latest technology in rugged devices moves forward – and how our own product lifecycles have responded to this. For example, we produced five iterations of the TOUGHBOOK CF-31 between 2010 and 2014 as advancements in connectivity, processing, and battery power, not to mention increasingly versatile materials, enabled us to develop lighter and tougher solutions for the most unforgiving of environments.

We’re now seeing this with the TOUGHBOOK 40 rugged notebook. With the first TOUGHBOOK 40 launching in 2022, the AI-enabled 40mk2 – the first TOUGHBOOK to feature Edge AI capabilities – has arrived just two years later.

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Panasonic TOUGHBOOK has a history of never conforming to the standard way of doing things. We recognise that commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) devices can only do so much when serving end-users, because all businesses in all sectors have differing technological, deployment, and support requirements. 

This is why Panasonic’s ProServices offering is so powerful. Regardless of the required solution, ProServices combines the durability of rugged, secure TOUGHBOOK devices with world-class design, manufacturing, testing, and support to craft the ultimate tool for an organisation’s operations.

It’s evidence of how Panasonic recognises that organisations need so much more than hardware. They require a true mobility partner that can guide them through the design, testing, implementation and deployment of the solution – not to mention ongoing maintenance and servicing support – allowing them to focus on their core business proposition.