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HMI Unified Comfort Panels Siemens SIMATIC WinCC


To meet the challenges of digitization in mechanical engineering and systems building, you need to be able to implement innovative control concepts. You will be able to do so, today and tomorrow, on our new SIMATIC HMI Unified Comfort Panel. What are the most impressive features of our new generation of control panels?

A good HMI panel gives you all the possibilities and freedom you need to achieve exactly the innovative operation your users demand. After all, users want to be able to access the factory from anywhere, via any device, and control the machines from there more powerfully than ever before, with a single system.

You can achieve this, thanks to the combination of the totally redesigned visualization software WinCC Unified V16 Comfort and the new, very powerful and flexible HMI Unified Comfort panels. Let us review the advantages.



As easy to use as a smartphone

Everything starts with the control itself. The high usability of a smartphone today is the benchmark for what the industry expects. Every HMI Unified Comfort panel deploys Multitouch technology, which makes operating the screen both elegant and simple. You can control the glass touch screen as easily as your phone or tablet, with several fingers at the same time. What's more, the panels are very easy to read thanks to their excellent colours, high resolution and high contrast.

By the way, the control panels can also be operated by wearing work gloves and they recognize operating errors, for instance when someone accidentally touches the screen with the ball of his hand.


More power and functions, to do more

Not only are the control panels excellent, they also offer much more power. As a result, the panel system can visualize very quickly and host much larger applications than before.

Furthermore, the control panels are now compatible with Industrial Edge, which makes the range of possibilities even wider. For example, from now on you can process data directly on a machine and install apps on the panels, in addition to Siemens' own runtime software. These applications work very smoothly, thanks to the high calculation power


Visualization easy to scale

We told you earlier how the new WinCC Unified Comfort visualization system allows full, easy and consistent scaling. Both in terms of hardware and software. With V16 we switch from pixel images to vector images, which are very easy to scale.
 


The operation can therefore be displayed without difficulty on any screen size, without any loss of quality. You can choose from HMI Unified Comfort panels in six formats, from 7 to 22 inches. All offer the same hardware interfaces and functionality.

What's more, you can also develop for multiple platforms at the same time. Once you have created components in WinCC Unified Comfort, within the well-proven environment of TIA Portal automation software, you can immediately use these elements on both PC systems and the HMI Unified Comfort panels. WinCC

Unified Comfort and the control panels are part of the same WinCC Unified System as perfectly matched hardware and software.


A lot of news, but also security and safety

The HMI Unified Comfort panels offer many new possibilities, but at the same time you will recognize the Comfort DNA. For example, in the comfort of an automatic system backup and the high quality.

You also have maximum security, despite the fact that the panels have an open structure and can be expanded. And that for years, because the security updates are downloaded directly on the devices. Just like the firmware updates, by the way. So you always work on the latest, safest version of the panel system, without any problems.


Want to know more or get started at an advantageous price?

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 You can start very cheaply with our Hardware starter kit. It contains an HMI Unified Comfort panel, WinCC Unified V16 Comfort, 1.5 m PROFINET cable, a 32 GB memory card and a protective foil.


 

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