PanelMate walks through the building blocks of an industrial HMI / Panel PC lineup: rugged touch displays, embedded box PCs, and integrated panel PCs meant for control cabinets, CNC cells, and production lines. The core idea is modular configuration: choose ARM or x86 compute, choose enclosure and mounting, then customize I/O, buttons, and labeling so the operator interface fits the machine and workflow. https://www.panelmate.cn/en/
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On compute, the demo covers fanless embedded designs using ARM platforms (including Raspberry Pi/Broadcom-class and Rockchip variants) alongside Intel Celeron x86 models, plus thicker actively cooled units when you need extra thermal headroom and options like internal SSD. That split maps to typical deployments: low-power ARM for dedicated HMI nodes, and x86 when you need broader OS/app compatibility and heavier visualization or gateway workloads.
Filmed at SPS 2025 in Nuremberg, the booth also shows integrated display panel PCs aimed at harsher sites, including explosion-proof / ATEX-style operator panels for hazardous areas. These are positioned as industrial front panels (often IP65-class at the operator side) with touchscreen choices, wide temperature operation, and mechanical builds in stainless steel or aluminum depending on washdown, corrosion, and hygiene needs.
A practical theme is distance and serviceability: an ID-link KVM approach extends keyboard/video/mouse over a single Cat6 run up to about 100 m via a transmitter/receiver pair, keeping the PC protected in a cabinet while the operator gets a clean arm-mounted screen or handheld station at the machine. Around that are digital remote I/O modules (with analog mentioned as upcoming), industrial keyboards, unusual aspect-ratio displays for retrofit jobs, and teach-pendant style handheld units for robot and CNC control on the factory floor.
The smart UPS piece ties it together: when mains power drops, a local battery-backed module can keep the system alive long enough for a controlled shutdown, protecting filesystems and avoiding awkward machine states. Overall, this is a compact tour of how panel PCs, operator stations, KVM extension, and modular I/O can be combined into a configurable HMI stack that stays stable under heat, dust, vibration, and long cable runs, while keeping maintenance predictable for OEMs and integrators next.
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