Control panel (engineering)

A control panel is a flat, often vertical, area where control or monitoring instruments are displayed.

They are found in factories to monitor and control machines or production lines and in places such as nuclear power plants, ships, aircraft and mainframe computers. Older control panels are most often equipped with push buttons and analog instruments, whereas nowadays in many cases touchscreens are used for monitoring and control purposes.

Control panel of the engines of the Clémenceau aircraft carrier

Control panel with touchscreen for the frigate INS Shivalik

Control panel from two Horizontal Return Tubular boiler

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

Some of the control panels of a Severn class lifeboat

HMI of a machine for the sugar industry with pushbuttons

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