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Control panel

A control panel is a flat surface area which has controlling or monitoring devices. Control panels are used in many places to control and monitor machines. Old control panels use buttons, while modern control panels use touchscreens. An automation engineer takes a mechanical device from a customer and makes it automated with the help of a control panel. The engineers in this field use AutoCAD and other software to design their control panel before using it to make a device automated.

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    Control panel of the engines of the Clémenceau aircraft carrier

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    Control panel from two Horizontal Return Tubular boiler

  • S-IB Networks panel

    One of the control panels from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Control Center Firing Room during the Apollo era

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    Some of the control panels of a Severn class lifeboat

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    HMI of a machine for the sugar industry with pushbuttons

  • Honeywell home alarm

    Wireless home alarm system control panel

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