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What are control panels?
Control panels often include graphic overlays; digital printed overlays, molded plastics, decorative trim, decals, and nameplates on industrial equipment and manufactured consumer products.
What are control panels used for?
Control panels are used for transparent and deadfront display windows for viewing LCD and LED displays on industrial equipment and manufactured consumer products. A computer equipment operator can monitor industrial machinery at a control panel. The panel adheres to the display window and covers buttons on a machine and guides the equipment operator as they utilize it.
From heavy –duty equipment on a construction site to the machines on a manufacturers assembly line to the life-saving medical equipment in a hospital control panels play a vital role in our society. Without control panels a machine's operator could not discern what the blinking and rapidly flashing lights mean. Control panels help a machines operator to monitor the process and ensure quality assurance. Whether it’s saving a patients life or making precision parts.
Even as consumers we cannot function without control panels. Panels guide us to turn up the volume on our TVs using the remote control. Pressing the pause button on the DVD player to freeze the movie we’re watching. Setting the time on the microwave’s digital display to cook a bag of popcorn or push buttons on the keypad to enter the code to get into the safe.
What are control panels made of?
Whether it’s an overlay, decal, or nameplate, control panels can be manufactured using various materials.
The most common material graphics companies use to make panels is Polycarbonate films. Polycarbonate varies in thickness and can have crisp, clear graphics screen printed on the front. Perfect for any product you want to have high visibility. Polycarbonate is resistant to high heat and chemicals. Polycarbonate is a thermoplastic polymer, or plastic for short. It’s easy to work with and mold.
Polycarbonates are widely used in the modern chemical industry. Polycarbonates have several features ripe for industrial and consumer product applications. They are temperature resistant, impact resistant and optical properties which contribute to high durability and a long-lasting lifespan. Polycarbonates are commonly used in injection molding process. This makes them great for creating tough instrument control panels that can take a beating.
Each panel can be manufactured to a customer’s specification using blue prints or custom dies. Panels can come in any shape, size and thickness. Panels can be screen printed, digitally printed using four-color process or using the Pantone color matching system. Branding your panel with a unique logo for optimum visibility and marketing purposes.
For more information about control panels visit www.datagraphicsinc.com.
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