Control panel (engineering)
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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 today in many cases touchscreens are used for monitoring and control purposes.
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Control panel of the engines of the Clémenceau aircraft carrier
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Control panel with touchscreen for the frigate INS Shivalik
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Control panel from two Horizontal Return Tubular boiler
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One of the control panels from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Control Center Firing Room during the Apollo era
[edit] See also
- Graphical user interface
- Dashboard mechanical
- Patch board
- Plugboard
- Telephone switchboard
- Electric switchboard
- Mixing console
- Lighting control console
- Fire alarm control panel
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